For a Teacher
Meet the TakeLessons Management Team
Steven Cox
FounderSteven is the founder of TakeLessons, America's largest site for finding and booking private lessons.
Prior to founding TakeLessons and Click For, 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 VP 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
TechnologyChuck works on technology for TakeLessons, managing the software development, hardware infrastructure, and technical innovation efforts. He has over a decade of experience building scalable and high-performance web, database, and scientific applications. He emphasizes quality code and close cooperation as keys for creating successful and agile software products.
Prior to joining TakeLessons in 2006, Chuck spent several years developing software and directing 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.
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.
