For a Teacher
Meet the TakeLessons Management Team
Steven Cox
Chief Executive OfficerSteven is the CEO and founder of TakeLessons, America's largest site for finding and booking private lessons.
Prior to founding TakeLessons and Service Scout, Inc. Steven was founder of Mobile Asset Group, a mobile messaging platform delivering exclusive content to cell phones. He was also Managing Partner of Reddito LLC, an ecommerce and strategic consulting firm with clients including Cisco, Club Med, Wells Fargo, and Intel.
Prior to this, Steven served as Vice President of Business Development for CollegeClub.com and was a founding employee of an internet B2B ecommerce firm that grew to an IPO in 1999.
He is also songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and bassist. He and his band mate Enrique Platas released their second CD on Convertible Fly Records in 2005 with one song making it to radio (go 94.9 San Diego) and another featured in an indie film.
Steven graduated with honors and degrees in Investment Finance and Human Communications.
Chuck Smith
Vice President of TechnologyAs the Vice President of Technology for TakeLessons, Chuck Smith is responsible for the software development and IT infrastructure that comprise the company's service delivery platform. Since joining the company in April, 2006, he has emphasized quality code, ongoing innovation, and collaboration as keys for creating successful software products. Chuck has over a decade of experience building scalable and high-performance web, database, and scientific applications.
Prior to joining TakeLessons, Chuck spent several years developing software projects in the life sciences industry. At Celera (1998-2002), he was technical lead for several bioinformatics analysis applications: EST clustering, genome assembly, genotyping, and fast genomic search algorithms. These products played a critical role in the ongoing human genome projects, allowing scientists to analyze the massive amounts of data being generated by worldwide sequencing efforts.
From 2002 to 2006, Chuck worked in the Life Sciences group at Accelrys as technical manager. He worked to strengthen the marketshare of the company's marquis products through infrastructure modernization, and by integrating them in to the next-generation Discovery Studio / Pipeline Pilot platform.
Chuck graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology, earning Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Literature.
Chris Waldron
Vice President of OperationsChris focuses his energies on creating successful experiences for customers and helping the teacher community get the most from the TakeLessons service. He manages sales, customer support, teacher recruiting and internal product development. Chris is passionate about developing technology solutions that change the lives of everyone that works with and uses TakeLessons. He's also passionate about developing a world class team.
Before TakeLessons, Chris spent 8 years in sales management and corporate development roles developing his sales, leadership and management skills.
A proud Detroiter, he graduated with honors from the business program at the University of Michigan. He lives in San Diego with his wife Danielle.
