Eddie Tabush, CEO
Eddie is the owner of Meritage Assets, which owns Joomlashack. A serial entrepreneur, during the last 15 years he's gone from selling computers, to wine and cheese, to rehab services, to this, his most recent acquisition. Eddie is most proud of his work with Habitat for Humanity Guatemala since 1998. He is now serving on the international board of directors for Habitat for Humanity International, in the position of Treasurer which oversees the program in the whole world. For his social work, Eddie has been awarded a fellowship in the Central American Leadership Initiative, a values-based leadership program of the Aspen Institute. He lives in Guatemala City with his wife, Amanda, and children, Nina and Jacob.

TJ Baker, COO
TJ wears several hats around the Shack (he likes hats, and thinks that everyone should have at least one proper hat) and can most often be seen leading the product developement and support teams.
After studying theatre in college, he somehow found himself sitting in front of a computer building websites and eventually found this thing called a 'Content Management System' with the funny name of Mambo. He's worked with Joomla and the Shack since their early days, enjoys teaching others how to use Joomla, and working with such a great team. TJ lives in central California with his wife Debi, and children Christopher, Azaria and Aidan.

Roxana Kawas, Head of Business Development
Roxy loves everything related to E-Commerce and leveraging technology to achieve business goals. She is the happiest person when you ask her to work with you in any possible way to develop a new business opportunity with the Shack. This may range from becoming an affiliate, to managing sponsorships for JDay, to conceptualizing and leading new product developments, and anything in between that will help us do business and continue building the Joomla community. Roxy holds an MBA from the Goizueta Business School @ Emory University, a B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM) and has had more than 12 years of E-Commerce experience with FedEx and InterContinental Hotels Group. She lives in Gutemala City with her two furry "kids" (Boo-Boo and Negrito) and adores her boyfriend Fernando better known as Cuto. 

Dan Maynard, Director SEO College
Dan has a voracious appetite for anything related to Internet marketing. Dan is semi retired and has had an expansive and successfull career ranging from marketing food around the world on international trade missions, to affiliate marketing, and search engine optimization consulting. Because of his love for teaching, Dan decided to teach Internet marketing and search engine optimization at our SEO College. "I've met and worked with lots of people around the world which in itself was a real education and worthwhile experience. But my true passion will always remain learning to harness the power of the Internet's vast traffic and helping others do the same." When Dan is not working on a computer he takes up another kind of keyboard as a classically trained pianist with a penchant for playing contemporary music. Dan has been married to a beautiful French Canadian girl for over 24 years and speaks French fluently. Dan's favorite destination… Paris! 

Tito Alvarez, Lead Developer
Tito is an IT enthusiast and entrepreneur as well as an excellent php/javascript programmer.  He has worked in web projects for over 10 years as lead developer of several and serious applications for banking and industrial companies in Central and North America.  He has been working with Joomla for some years now and promotes the guatemalan Joomla User Group. He loves comics and watching TV shows (accepts recommendations also).  Tito lives in Guatemala with his wife Paola. 

Paola Gómez
Paola is a graphic designer specialized in web design.   She has over 10 years experience in graphic design including 5 working at the world-renowned and high-paced DDB ad agency.  Passionate creating conceptual designs and a typography lover, she's addicted to Pinterest, DIY and crafts projects.  She lives in Guatemala with her husband Tito, and they always team for creating websites and templates.  She has always thought that designers exist to make this a prettier world.

Christopher Gomez
Christopher is your friendly neighborhood support guy. He lives in California, where he loves spending time outdoors & traveling wherever his feet take him. Christopher worked in retail before he discovered how much better life is with Joomla in it. When he's not doing Joomla, Christopher loves to travel, be creative with music and art, and enjoy time with his family. 

William Ellis
In 2009 William decided he needed to create a website, the only thing holding me back was that he knew nothing about building websites. He knew he needed a site where users would be able to interact while learning from the sites content, no problem he thought, there are millions of sites doing exactly that so he'd just learn to do what they've done. As you know it's just not that easy building a site from scratch.
Then he found Joomla, it fulfilled all of his needs and more. Searching in earnest for learning materials that worked for him, he became discouraged and almost gave up untill he joined the Joomlashack University. After 1 day he had a full site up and running and that was him hooked.  He's always looking out for opportunities to learn new skills and to share them as best he can. He's happy to tackle any issue and if he doesn't have the solution he knows we can find one between our team.

Vishal Grover
Vishal is Joomlashack's Technical Moderator. A Software Engineer who did his post graduation work (Master of Computer Applications) in 2008, he has since been in the world of php, and he's been in love with Joomla since they first met 2 years back. Vishal imagines a personality for himself of being free, frank and fearless, and is very determined to live on it. He likes to look at life with the glass half full, and is ever ready for whatever life brings. Vishal often repeats the mantra "Nothing New Under The Sun". He lives in India with his Mom, Dad and Grand Mother, and brings with him a flair of Indian Spiritual culture to the Shack.

Forest Linden
Forest is the co-founder of Joomlashack University, and even though he no longer works for us we want to keep him here among our bios mostly because of his good looks and his great hair, and also because we love him. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Bari and his beautiful boy Noah. Forest's new venture is called Tech Husband. Check it out.

Chiara Aliotta
Chiara Aliotta is an Italian designer with many years of experience in art direction, graphics, illustration and web design. She has created powerful and innovative designs for brands like Vodafone, Nivea, Persol, NH Hotel, Catalano, N.6 Selection Top, Osram, and many others. Before she started her freelance career with the name Until Sunday, she was a busy web and graphic designer for other companies, including Matteo Thun (Milan), Boutique Creativa (Milan/Barcelona) and Nuevvo/Joomlaworks (Athens). Her work is extremely creative, emotionally-involving, and detail-obsessed, rich with colorful illustrations that come from her imaginary world. She describes herself as a typography addict and lover of colors. Everyday life is her inspiration and it reflects in her work and in her blog. Her favorite quote is by Alexander Gilard: “Stimulate imagination, evoke emotions, bring pleasure or do nothing”.

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