About Us

SignUpGenius.com was developed by a crack-team of nuclear physicists as part of a top-secret operation commissioned by the President of the United States and operating out of a secluded government facility underneath Mount Rushmore. Ok, that's not exactly true - but to the small passionate team here in Charlotte, NC - we take our organizing mission that seriously! 

We're busy. Really busy. Probably a lot like you. The idea for SignUpGenius.com was sparked out of need to simplify and organize the various groups and communities we are involved in.
 

HOW IT ALL STARTED

	We were having a party for our church small group one time and told people with last names starting with A-M to bring drinks and those with N-Z to bring snacks. We all showed up and were shocked to find that every snack family brought chips and salsa and every drinks family brought Diet Coke! It was the most disgusting party meal ever! Another time I was coaching a kids soccer team where the team mom created a paper sign-up sheet to organize snacks. Seemed like it would work... until one mom had a conflict and asked a couple other people to swap around. Everyone got confused... and at least one family forgot. We ended up having numerous games where the kids sat on the sidelines, without anything, watching the other team eat their snacks! I've got too many important things on my plate to stress about stuff like this. I kept thinking to myself... there has got to be a better way. So I set out to create one.
	Dan Rutledge, Creator of SignUpGenius

We hope that this tool is as useful to you as it is to us. Use it for FREE and tell your friends. And with all your new found free time... drop us a note to let us know how it's helped you!
 

The Genius Team

	Dan Rutledge, Lead Genius Dan leads the team at SignUpGenius and is highly regarded by the staff... not really because of his 15+ years of web experience, but primarily because he came up with the idea for "Free Starbucks Wednesdays" at the office. When not coding, designing, or strategerizing - Dan likes to coach his kids, make movies, and pretend he's a comedian on Twitter. His dream is that one day SignUpGenius will also be able to organize his garage.
	Mike Vadini, Founding Genius Mike is a serial entrepreneur, having founded SignUpGenius and so many other companies that he can hardly remember them all. In fact, sometimes when he walks into a business - he asks them if he's the owner, just to be safe. Mike serves as CEO of the global IT firm, TITAN GS and can be found travelling the world spouting out very important businessy abbreviations like EPM, SAS, CRM, ROI, and SAP to CFOs, CIOs, and CEOs. LOL! His dream is that one day SignUpGenius will organize the PGA tour and they'll let him play.
	David Schaller, Developer Genius David is a ColdFusion ninja who is so good at programming that he sometimes walks around the office speaking in binary, just for fun. When he's not adding some new fangled feature to SignUpGenius, he enjoys motorcycle riding, playing the ukulele, and soundly defeating his six-year-old daughter in board games. His dream is that one day SignUpGenius will finally be so intuitive and easy to use that his mom won't have to call and ask him for help.
	Angel Rutledge, Managing Genius Angel enjoys the responsibility of keeping the unruly SignUpGenius staff in order. The mad management skills she's learned from being a mom to four kids are most helpful in her role - especially when she has to ground some of the staff members for arguing over whose turn it is to clean the bathrooms. When Angel is not scouring the internet for the best insurance plan, coordinating a staff party, or meeting with her office peeps, she enjoys working out, listening to historical audio books, and leading mission trips to Liberia. Her dream is that one day SignUpGenius will have a feature that physically smacks people upside the head if they forget their responsibility. As long as it's not her.
	Kate White, Marketing Genius Kate has the fun job of telling every single person in the known universe about SignUpGenius (including anyone on Pluto, even if it isn't a planet). When she's not writing articles, organizing a contest, or connecting with partners... you can find her practicing yoga, baking, reading, or having a dance party with her 3-year-old - and quite possibly doing all of that at the same time. Her dream is that one day she will be told that her main focus should be to market SignUpGenius to people on resort beaches in Jamaica and that she needs to travel there... like NOW.
	Amy Tidwell, Support Genius Amy loves to answer questions and help our fantastic SignUpGenius users. She especially appreciates when an occasional frustrated user will type in ALL CAPS and end their sentences with multiple exclamation points!!!!! When she's not instructing people on the art and science of potluck organization, she enjoys running, watching Auburn football, and singing in the choir. Her dream is that one day Siri will be able to answer the SignUpGenius questions for her and she could just take her three girls shopping.
	Teresa Clark, Support Genius As a former teacher, Teresa loves to provide helpful answers and encouragement to the many schools that use SignUpGenius. She especially appreciates when an occasional room-mom writes into support at 3am in the morning on a weekend and says, "It's been an hour since I submitted my ticket... how come I haven't heard back?!" When she's not involved in a deep discussion on the intricacies of parent/teacher conference coordination, she enjoys cooking, baking, helping others, and being mom to four active kids. Her dream is that one day SignUpGenius will get so big that her job responsibility will be to spend the entire day pinning things on Pinterest.
	Kirsten Mayers, Support Genius Kirsten loves to answer questions and help our many SignUpGenius users. Since she's half-Canadian, she's our only bilingual staff member that can answer people that write in using Canadian English. It's not easy, eh? In addition to helping our users, Kirsten helps test out our newest SignUpGenius features. She has a gift with breaking things and enjoys finding bugs and laughing in the face of the developers. When she's not knee-deep in testing and support, Kirsten enjoys Longhorn football, triathlons, and being a hockey-mom. Her dream is that one day Disney will use SignUpGenius to organize their entire cruise fleet and she will have to take her family on a tropical vacation each month... just in case they have any questions.