Our Team

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Brooke Paul

Brooke Paul

Brooke is a serial entrepreneur and corporate intrapreneur with more than 20 years of senior executive leadership ranging from green-field startups to Fortune 500 companies. He has worked in technology and innovation for Reed-Elsevier, Allstate, Lexis-Nexis, and American Financial Group. Brooke has founded, built, and successfully exited startups in the Internet, cyber-security, and hospitality industries. He currently leads Taivara to bring the lean and nimble product management practices used by startups and venture capitalists to enterprise customers.

Kevin Dwinnell

Kevin Dwinnell

Kevin has a history of driving product innovation, testing promising business markets and forging robust client relationships to boost top-line revenue. With more than 20 years of experience in the interactive and digital media space performing work for leading brands like AOL, HP, Netscape, and Sony, he offers insights and perspective that will minimize missteps and improve the chances for success. His experience in launching and growing new business in both B2B and B2C categories also include efforts for Hanna-Barbera Studios, Liebert/Emerson Network Power and Turner Broadcasting.

Alex Vargas

Alex Vargas

Alex is an obscenely proud father, consistent side-project enthusiast, and product-focused software engineer. He takes special pride in finding the right balance between shipping a product and building code the right way. When he’s not at the office, you might find him at a craft brewery or rolling around on a Brazilian jiu jitsu mat.

Jacqueline Rinehardt

Jacqueline Rinehardt

Jacqueline leads Taivara Labs, Taivara’s internal accelerator. She is familiar with the inner workings of a growing startup and has built and grown multiple projects of her own since graduating from Ohio University.

Jill McDonagh

Jill McDonagh

Jill is the Business Operations Manager and has been with the company from the beginning. She is responsible for human resources and finance at Taivara and has provided business operations services for several companies since 2008. In her free time she enjoys yoga, doing home improvement projects and spending time with her family and their two french bulldogs.

Mark Nguyen

Mark Nguyen

Mark is a full stack developer and a proud graduate of The Ohio State University. He gives nothing less than his best when if comes to developing and shipping software. Mark is a well-rounded individual. When he isn’t coding he’s most likely dabbling in boxing, book-binding, or playing piano.

Scott Ziegler

Scott Ziegler

Scott is an experienced senior software engineer with an interest in coding, gaming, and music.

Natalie Sidhom

Natalie Sidhom

Software engineer with 5+ years experience at Google, including working with the City of Seattle on technology for social services. With a passion for utilizing tech for good, Natalie specializes in areas with impact on the climate crisis, humanitarian needs, and social services.

Kirk Wallace

Kirk Wallace

Kirk is a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of experience honed through collaborations with prestigious institutions like NASA, NSF, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. In his off time, you can catch him onstage as an acrobat with Cirque Du Soleil or in the shop tinkering with microcontrollers.

Andy Court

Andy Court

Andy is a junior developer with a background in mechanical engineering and management consulting. When he’s not behind his laptop you will find him on the mountain rock climbing.

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Our Values

FLEXIBILITY

We embrace ambiguity and adapt to our client’s needs. We value variety and diversity in our work and relationships.

CURIOSITY

Our team is never afraid to learn new methods, business models or technologies. We take risks, dig deep, and constantly learn.

TRUST

We build trust with our clients and within our team through transparency & consistent, quality delivery.

PRAGMATISM

We focus on the most efficient path to value. We don’t rule out different perspectives and approaches just because of dogma.

RELIABILITY

Get Stuff Done. Our clients can depend upon us to deliver quality consistently.

Let’s Work Together

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