Jack Rubin

Co-Founder,

Andrew Recinos

President & CEO, Tessitura

Kristin Darrow

Senior Vice President, Product,

Chuck Reif

Chief Engineer & Co-Founder,

Tessitura Network Business and Product Update (N.Amer/Europe)

8/3/2020

Tessitura Network Business and Product Update, August 2020

Tessitura Network continues to navigate the sector-wide impact of a global pandemic by remaining laser-focused on our mission to enable your missions amid an industry turned upside down. At the same time, we continue to build for the future that is unfolding before us. This webinar will provide up-to-the-minute news about our technology, services, community and more. Join us for an update on how we're continuing to respond as a company and what we're excited about as we look to the future. This webinar takes place during a week when we expected to be gathering in Denver for TLCC2020. In honor of that, the webinar will conclude with an announcement about TLCC2021 including the location for in-person attendees.

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Jack Rubin

Jack Rubin

Co-Founder

Jack Rubin led the Tessitura Network since its inception in 2001 through the end of 2020 and currently serves  in an advisory role.

After being appointed President by the founding Board, he led the company from its beginnings as two-person organization (with Chuck Reif, head of technology and fellow co-founder) and two license holders, to a company serving over 700 arts and cultural organizations with over 200 team members. Jack grew Tessitura Network into a company with multiple products and services, continual technology and functionality advancements, a global footprint on three continents and across ten countries, and as strong a presence in the museum and cultural attraction sector as the company initially built in the performing arts sector. 

Jack has served in management and leadership roles in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds. Previously, he was CEO and President of an internet-based ticketing and box office software company, Chief Financial and Strategic Officer for www.hotels.com during the period they went public and has also served in CEO, and senior-level management, marketing and strategic officer positions for large publicly-traded companies in various industries and market sectors. Responsibilities included dozens of mergers and acquisitions while with public companies, start-ups, growth initiatives, product development, strategic alliance formations, and management of numerous businesses. 

Jack has also served on non-profit boards and co-chaired a successful technology task force for an educational institution that led to nationally recognized design and implementation of the educational use of technology. Jack holds an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a BBA summa cum laude from the University of Texas and is also a CPA.

Andrew Recinos

Andrew Recinos

President & CEO
Tessitura

Andrew Recinos (he/him) is the President & CEO of Tessitura Network.

Recinos brings a unique skillset to the position, having held roles as business leader, arts administrator, technologist, and musician.

He began his affiliation with Tessitura in 2002, working as an implementation contractor for new Tessitura members. In 2009 he became the Product Manager for the Tessitura Next Generation project, serving as a key member of the leadership team for what was then the company’s largest technology effort to date. In 2012, Andrew joined Tessitura leadership as Executive Vice President, and in 2021 he was named President & CEO.

Prior to joining Tessitura, Andrew spent eight years as a member of the leadership team of Jacobson Consulting Applications (JCA), an independent technology company devoted to the nonprofit sector. From 1995 until 2002, Andrew served in a variety of roles in fundraising and technology at Carnegie Hall in New York City, including Director of the Friends of Carnegie Hall and Head of Systems for Development.

Andrew is a pianist, trumpet player and composer and has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Recinos served as the Resident Composer of the Godlight Theatre Company in New York City for a decade and was part of the artistic team awarded a Drama Desk Award in 2010.

He holds a master’s degree in arts administration from the O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and was given the O’Neill School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022. Andrew serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Cultural Affairs, is a Board Member of ArtsFund and is a member of the Technical Working Group for the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Arts and Evidence-based Research Center. Andrew lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Peg and child Rowan.
Kristin Darrow

Kristin Darrow

Senior Vice President, Product

Kristin Darrow is Senior Vice President of Product at Tessitura Network.

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.

Chuck Reif

Chuck Reif

Chief Engineer & Co-Founder

As one of Tessitura Network’s founders, Chuck Reif has been with the company since its inception and remains a technical leader for Tessitura.

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.

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