Our SparkBase network is a well-oiled machine and our employees are the fuel that keep it running. Our staff are experts in data security and developing, managing and analyzing loyalty and gift programs.
Doug Hardman
Founder & CEO
Doug is the CEO and Founder of SparkBase. As a result of Doug’s leadership and fearless approach to innovation, SparkBase became one of the largest loyalty marketing providers, offering formerly unheard of customer acquisition and retention tools to businesses around the world. Doug is the visionary who invents new products in his sleep and then rolls up his sleeves the next day to help make them a reality.
Geoff Hardman
President
Geoff lends his years of experience managing retail chains and acting as Director of Operations for a top stored-value company to his role as President at SparkBase. Geoff is directly responsible for building our portfolio of clients, leading our client service team to excellence and managing day-to-day operations. Geoff happens to be Doug’s brother and is the one who helps keep our heads out of the product-developing clouds.
Joshua Lochner
Chief Information Security Officer
Josh brings his 10+ years of experience as a data security consultant to his work at SparkBase. He ensures the security of the data in our cloud-based server and in each of our working locations. We know businesses demand that their customer information is secure, even as it relates to loyalty behavior, and Josh helps us exceed those expectations.
Tessa Burg
Vice President, Product & Program Management
Tessa has worked with some of the largest retail brands to help them understand their consumers based on data and behavior and develop products that meet customer needs. She works closely with our development staff to map out requirements for new internal and client products and tirelessly measures their success.
Chrissy Hand
Director, Loyalty Services & Marketing
Chrissy has spent her career working with large brands to understand their needs and help them implement marketing and consumer engagement solutions. She is responsible for working one-on-one with our clients to design, implement and optimize their loyalty marketing programs to drive ROI and program performance.
Rushabh (Shubs) Sheth
Corporate Development Analyst
Shubs sees business opportunities around every corner. He’s responsible for analyzing our path as a company and determining strategic partnerships that benefit SparkBase and the companies we work with. It doesn’t hurt that he’s a data and analytics whiz, which we take advantage of at every turn .
Christine Primisch
Client Services Director
Christine began her career in the restaurant industry where she was the GM and responsible for training and managing employees and opening new locations. She’s the ultimate teacher and has taught the least technically-savvy among us to operate terminals and understand complicated loyalty programs.
Melissa Tomaro
Controller
Melissa has a history of working with businesses large and small on their financials. A master of efficiency, Melissa juggles billing for all of our clients and our business and manages to patiently advise those of us who are less spreadsheet and number oriented.
Lee Robinson
Lead Transaction Engineer
Lee is responsible for ensuring the millions of transactions that are processed on our servers each week are successfully completed and tracked. His years of experience in this field ensure the strength of our network, which has a 99.999% up time.
Andrew Witt
Vice President, Software Systems Engineering
Andrew is a veteran Web developer and has worked with some of the largest retail chains in the US. He leads our software engineering team to excellence, makes our back-end data work with user interfaces for our analytics dashboards and is our guru on all things online.
