Who's Behind Piper

Built With Industry Experts

Piper is shaped by CFOs, executive producers, AI researchers, and
event veterans who understand what production finance actually demands.

Ethan Rosch
Founder

Ethan Rosch

25+ years producing events for Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Nickelodeon, and more. Built Piper to solve the budget chaos he lived every day.

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Taylor Pagitt
Co-Founder

Taylor Pagitt

15+ years as a production director, operations lead, and executive producer — both agency-side and in-house — for Apple, Nike, Google, Expedia, and more.

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Our Advisory Board

Sam Debuse

Sam Debuse

Co-Founder
MyMA

Venture and art enthusiast with deep experience in startup growth and product development. University of Texas at Austin graduate, 2nd in class.

Startups Product Venture
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Ben Hocken

Ben Hocken

Freelance Executive Producer
London

London-based EP with experience at WRG, Broadsword, and The 14th Factory. UCLA educated with expertise in creative direction and technical production.

Executive Producer Creative
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Karl Johansson

Karl Johansson

Chief Financial Officer
Finance & Operations

Experienced CFO providing strategic guidance on financial modeling and cash flow forecasting - the real-world finance workflows that production companies need.

CFO Finance Cash Flow
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Elizabeth Geldhof

Elizabeth Geldhof

Director, Customer Success
MediaLab 3D Solutions

Veteran event producer turned creative technologist. Former Director of Events at GMR Marketing. Now leads customer success at MediaLab 3D Solutions.

Event Production Creative Tech Customer Success
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Isaac Kargar

Isaac Kargar, PhD

Principal AI Scientist
In-Parallel

AI researcher with 10+ years in deep learning, LLMs, and GenAI. Published in IEEE journals. Previously CIO/CAIO at Resoniks, helping secure $2.65M in seed funding.

AI / ML PhD LLMs
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Decades of Production Experience

Piper was built by producers who've managed budgets for the world's biggest brands. We've lived the spreadsheet chaos - and built something better.

Facebook Intel Microsoft Nickelodeon LG Unilever

This has been the best event in my 16 years at Intel.

Ann Lewis · VP, World-Wide Consumer Marketing, Intel

Year after year you continue to rock it out, always topping your previous year. The speakers, execs, staff and partners are blown away.

Dawn Buccellato-Zolek · Senior Director, Nickelodeon

Scheduling, travel, creature comforts, attention to details, production logistics, and budgets have all been professionally addressed.

Lori Schweiger · VP Client Services, GMR Marketing

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