She heads product strategy, and her team is responsible for discovering and leading the product direction that brings deep value to the members of the Tessitura Network community.

Prior to working at Tessitura, Kristin was Director of E-Commerce for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (including overseeing one of the earliest launches of a Tessitura-integrated website in 2002). Her career has been spent at the intersection digital and art/culture.  She’s an avid believer in the power of art and culture to shape (and perhaps most accurately depict) the human experience. She holds a degree in viola performance from the University of Texas at Austin and splits her time between Seattle and her farm in eastern Washington State, where she likes to play fiddle in her barn.

As Chief Engineer and Co-Founder, Chuck works closely with Chief Innovation Office John Jakovich to oversee the technical direction of the company and the future functionality of the Tessitura platform.

Chuck joined Tessitura Network from the Metropolitan Opera, where he was project manager for the development of the original Tessitura software. Initially in charge of IT for the Met’s Marketing and Development departments, he became Assistant Director of IT and was responsible for administering the systems that were eventually replaced by Tessitura. Chuck then led the organization-wide effort to design and build what was then called Impresario Software — an extensive project that involved all customer-facing departments over a three and a half year period. 

Prior to his career in technology, Chuck worked in the theatre as a professional stage manager for Broadway and national touring productions of such shows as The King and I with Yul Brynner, Hello Dolly with Carol Channing and The Music Man with Dick Van Dyke. After seven years backstage, he began consulting with Broadway producers, helping them to implement effective uses of computer technology. One of his projects at the time was to write the program that tracked the casts of Cats all over the world. 

Chuck has a Bachelor of Education (Music and Theatre) from Northern Illinois University. The early years of his career found him doing social work in London, managing a marina in the Virgin Islands and renovating apartments in New York City. But from a very young age he wanted to work in the theatre and is therefore thrilled that the arts are still a major focus of his work. Chuck lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys skiing, hiking and cycling.