The Brigaders

Chris is an former automotive technician, IT specialist, and entrepreneur. Chris grew up in the South Bay Area and entered the IT industry at the beginning of the dot com era. In 2005 Chris founded ScratchSpace Inc. an IT consulting company which has called Santa Cruz home since 2008. His background includes 17 years of experience in the IT technical field as a system administrator and operations manager at a local internet service provider. In 2009 Chris created Santa Cruz Application Development in 2009, a project aimed at training local computer science students to create world class web applications. This effort was re-branded to Launch Brigade in 2011, a name that spoke to the values and capabilities of our growing team. Chris lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and enjoys home brewing beer, snow skiing, PHP Programming, and aspires to make Crossfit part of his weekly schedule.

Responsible for keeping projects on time and budget, Keri's experience spans content creation, social media, marketing, and project coordination. She's also a dog whisperer! A former business owner, Keri brings a lot of process and organization to the team.

Raised in the python infested wilds of Java amongst an ancient tribe of JavaScript worshipers, renowned since antiquity for their prowess in coding and bug finding, Brian is one of the newest assets to the Launch Brigade team. Don’t be fooled by his ruggedly adventurous good looks, the guy is a total computer nerd who has dedicated most of his waking life to the pursuit of beautiful website layouts and algorithms. When not in the office spinning beautiful webs of code in a head sandwiched between headphones, Brian enjoys climbing and taking coding classes.

Gabe Kopito is one of our developers and THE resident food critic. When he is not pontificating about the culinary arts or giving scathing reviews of the local eateries, he is writing elegant code utilizing the latest development technologies. If you happen to see Gabe around town and want some good advice on places to have dinner, introduce yourself but be warned, Gabe takes food very seriously.

The eldest among team members, Greg enjoys hanging out with young talent with a passion for awesome web design and development. Since joining the team in 2012, the guy has built up a mountain of development experience in the front end and back end areas, delivering on-time, within budget, quality product. Speaking of mountain, if Greg isn't climbing one, he's out walking about enjoying the Santa Cruz beach scenery.

Karl brings his expert knowledge of development, passion for web design, and the ability to translate ideas to action. He specializes in making user-friendly responsive websites. His technology experience ranges from systems to enterprise networks.

Anne works with Launch Brigade’s marketing and social media, so you’ll probably see Anne on her phone…a lot. When she’s not scrolling through Facebook or Instagram, she’s making graphics and gifs to post on Facebook or Instagram.