ShopIgniter Team
Some of the best in the industry, these valued team members have poured their blood, sweat and tears into ShopIgniter.
Matt Compton, Chief Executive Officer
Matt oversees the company's strategy, manages operations and continually seeks eCommerce innovation for ShopIgniter customers. Prior to ShopIgniter, Matt was a venture partner at Madrona Ventures, an early stage technology venture investor. Prior to Madrona, Matt spent several years at Yahoo most recently as VP Media and Strategic Partnerships. He previously ran product and marketing for Music and headed up sales and marketing for the Business Services division, which included Yahoo Store. Prior to joining Yahoo, Matt was CEO and co-founder of uShock, a local portal company and a founding partner of M2 Consulting, a product and marketing strategy consultancy.
Matt holds a BA dual degree, cum laude, in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA with distinguished service honors from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Matt enjoys traveling and being active in the outdoors with his wife and two children: skiing, climbing, and cycling (regardless of weather) across the Pacific Northwest.
Alan Wizemann, Founder, Chief Product Officer
With 14 years of development experience, Alan was asked by his wife to help her develop a web store for her small boutique (lilleboutique.com). After poking around, the solution became clear: develop his own. Fast forward 2 years later — with an amazing team of engineers and designers, that system has become ShopIgniter. Alan is directly responsible for the innovative ideas, roadmap and future direction of the platform. Working closely with the technical expertise of the development team, those ideas are turned into reality. In his spare time (about one day per month) Alan enjoys racing vintage Porsche's at the Portland International Raceway.
Dan Warner, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining ShopIgniter, Dan had been the CTO for White Horse, a leading interactive agency where he was responsible for the web technology development of the Columbia Sportswear site, and many other clients including Cisco and Visa. Over the last eight years, Dan has been the technical wizard behind numerous start-ups including Fyreball.com, EventSpace.com, and ZingDing.com. When Dan is not working on the next big thing at ShopIgniter, he spends his time with his family and competes in triathlons throughout the Pacific Northwest.
With backgrounds in the agency, enterprise and the start-up world, the ShopIgniter team created a unique approach to eCommerce.
Jason Glover, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Director
Prior to joining the team at ShopIgniter, Jason founded and published a Michigan-based arts and culture rag called "Thirdeye Magazine." In an attempt to escape Michigan's icy grip, he moved the publication online and hightailed to Portland, OR in early 2008. Jason first became interested in designing websites back in middle school and his yesteryear's were filled with table based design, tomfoolery with GeoCities, animated .gifs, and distracting, tiled background images. Jason has since honed a more sophisticated design aesthetic expressed through crisp, CSS derived landscapes and brought to life with jQuery. In his spare time he plays guitar, writes poetry, and works on his second novel.
Brent Newton, Director of Software Engineering
Brent has ten years of software engineering and software architecture experience in environments ranging from interactive agencies to SaaS providers, in projects ranging from complex desktop applications to n-tiered enterprise systems to eCommerce web applications, utilizing technologies from both the Microsoft and the Open Source worlds. With the time spent in the interactive agency world, working directly with clients, Brent has developed the keen abilities to discern unspoken client requirements and assuage client concerns. When not working, Brent can be found running around or exploring Portland and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
