About Webconnex
Our Story
Webconnex, a company created by two guys from different backgrounds who have built a set of web technology tools to help individuals and organizations simplify the way people register and donate.
In August of 2008, Eric decided to develop a donation manager for one of his clients searching for for a good “off the shelf solution" to process donations online minus all the custom development or worry about the security issues or upgrades.
Within 6 weeks, a simple interface with minimal features was created which turned out to perform exceptionally well for the client. John and Eric met up and took a look at the simple manager seeing huge potential in it for the events industry. After several hours at Starbucks, the decision was made to make enhancements to this little manager to facilitate event registrations.
John remembers “It was like an in-house solution for ticketing, registration, volunteer management, and exhibitor registration”
Webconnex LLC was born a few weeks later, signing on a few private clients to test and provide feedback. During the first 12 months, a hundred beta clients processed several million dollars. The customer feedback was tremendous and a long list of enhancements and features slowly began to take shape.
After a couple years and millions of dollars in customer volume later, Webconnex introduced individual product names for each of its product niches with GivingFuel, RedPodium, RegFox, TicketSpice and GroupRev each given their own brand and website.
While Webconnex is still young and growing, the focus and mission is to build powerful, yet intuitive, web applications. We create affordable, user-friendly products backed by industry standard customer service. This business strategy has allowed Webconnex to draw significant numbers of new clientele while minimizing reliance on expensive marketing and sales campaigns.
The 'About Us' story continues to evolve as new products and services emerge from our two California locations but we always stand by the basis our family of products is based upon
Our Team
Eric
Eric is co-founder of Webconnex and has channeled his passion for technology into a rewarding career. Most of his days are typically spent figuring out new and exciting ways to help organizations, churches and business be able to simplify how money is processed online. His passion is to make the most effective web based software that can be used by anyone.
When not in the office, Eric pursues a life of adrenaline and adventure through motocross, mountain biking, heli-skiiing and more. He also leads a faith community during the week and has a heart for serving in third world countries. He is married to his college sweetheart and has a new daughter.
John
John is the co-founder of Webconnex with almost two decades of event marketing and promotion experience. Prior to Webconnex, he ran an event business, collaborating with major productions around the country ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 attendees. John’s passion truly lies in helping fellow promoters enhance both attendee and sponsor experiences. John is a firm believer “The event experience starts at registration.”
Today, John works with a lot of our clients to maximize the registration & ticketing products. He’s an action sports nut and keeps his hand in the event world by running a mountain bike race series with his buddy Matt. John lives in Southern California with his wife and three daughters
Ashley
Ashley joined the Webconnex team last year to facilitate the launch of RedPodium and oversee our online competitive sports operations. An athlete her entire life, Ashley has kept busy competing in over 10 different sports including Division I Rowing at Sacramento State. Since graduation, she gained a passion for running and biking engaging in many running, biking and adventure races with amazing stories of her experiences.
Ashley is a passionate and driven individual with a commitment to excellence. She has an uncanny knack to attracting and mobilizing people to get behind events and raise issue awareness. If you’ve dealt with Ashley, we’ll bet she left you with a positive and memorable experience!
Aaron
Aaron is the customer and technical support wizard who has helped Webconnex maintain it's golden reputation among our clients. On any given day, he can be found managing the live chat, taking phone calls, replying to email correspondence, creating demo videos and still finding time to challenge Eric's golf putting record.
When not going above and beyond make our clients day, you can find Aaron tearing down the American River Trail on his bike or showing off his musical talent on the bass guitar and cowbell. Jump onto our live chat if you ever need help or just want to say hello!
Luke
Luke…office guru and a man with an opinion on just about everything. Luke fulfills a variety of programming and product development roles at Webconnex. An expert on a variety of works related topics, Luke helps bring creative web solutions to life for the benefit of our clients. Luke's capability of processing details far beyond the capability of a normal person makes him a valued member of the team and balances out his snarkier moments during the course of the day.
Dan
Dan handles all of our daily media, communications and copy writing needs while managing to find time to break for his daily cup of black iced coffee. If there is ever a need for a press release, marketing documents, copy editing, or multiple blogs on a deadline, Dan is the guy we all turn to.
An avid photographer, you're likely to find him roaming the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles, Nikon camera in hand looking for his next great shot.
Katie
Katie is a longtime friend of the Webconnex team and first became acquainted with the Webconnex technology by helping organizations, races and non-profits with their events and fundraisers who happened to already be Webconnex customers. She joined our customer support team this year and is continuing our reputation of amazing support. Fun fact...she and Ashley were on the same college rowing team in Sacramento!
Nathan
Nathan joined the small group of people behind the curtain who make the all the technical magic happen at Webconnex. When he is not writing code, decrypting APIs and building software, he spends time reinforcing the typical nerd stereotype. He feels he is the authentic nerd since he genuinely enjoys sci-fi, anime, video games and role playing games with a dodecahedron.