Leadership Team

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Colleen Birdnow Brown

Colleen Birdnow Brown
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Colleen Birdnow Brown

Colleen Birdnow Brown

Interim Chief Executive Officer
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Kristie Goodgion

Kristie Goodgion
Chief Financial Officer
Kristie Goodgion

Kristie Goodgion

Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Goodgion was appointed Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer in April 2023, and prior to that had been the Company's Global Controller since September 2022. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Goodgion served as Global Controller of Dynata, LLC, a first party data company, from August 2020 to September 2022. Prior to that, Ms. Goodgion was Vice President, Controller of HPOne, a sales and marketing organization that operates across multiple segments of the Medicare and health insurance marketplaces, from September 2019 to August 2020, and Chief Financial Officer of Budderfly, Inc., an energy service company, from January 2018 to September 2019. Ms. Goodgion started her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has over 15 years of experience in senior executive roles specializing in corporate restructuring, operational streamlining and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Goodgion graduated from Assumption College, with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Finance and Masters of Business Administration – Business and Finance.
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Beckley

Fred Beckley
Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel
Beckley

Fred Beckley

Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel

Fred brings more than 30 years’ experience in technology and nearly a decade specifically in the global dating industry to his role at Spark Networks. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs & General Counsel at The Meet Group, Inc. – a leading provider of interactive dating solutions, including some of the world’s largest livestreaming video dating apps. From 2000 to 2010 he was Executive Vice President, Business Development & General Counsel at TruePosition, Inc., a pioneering hardware and software provider of wireless location solutions. From 1995 to 2000, he served in various roles at Verizon Communications, Inc., ending there as Senior Counsel, Business Development for Verizon Wireless. Mr. Beckley is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Yale Law School, and Yale Divinity School.

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Ken Chin

Ken Chin
Chief Product Officer
Ken Chin

Ken Chin

Chief Product Officer

Chin is an accomplished leader with over 20 years’ experience in product leadership for online marketplaces (eBay and SeekAsia) and e-commerce (FarFetch). As a group product manager at eBay, he was critical in driving a merger between eBay’s EU Retail Promotions Platform with the global platform, and crucial in driving corporate innovation at BCG Digital Ventures. He has international experience and has built high performance teams throughout his career, driving digital transformation and enabling corporate innovation. He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, with a B. Sc - Double Major in Computer Science & Information Technology and an MBA with a major in Marketing.

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Tobias Plaputta

Tobias Plaputta
Chief Technology Officer
Tobias Plaputta

Tobias Plaputta

Chief Technology Officer

Tobias Plaputta has been the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Spark Networks since November 2020. As CTO he leads technological innovations for Spark Networks’ portfolio of premium, complementary brands including Zoosk, EliteSingles, SilverSingles, Christian Mingle, Jdate, JSwipe and eDarling.

Tobias has over a decade of experience working with Spark’s products. Since joining as a developer in February 2010, he has been a part of several company milestones, including kickstarting mobile development in 2012, overseeing multiple new country launches of core products, managing company takeovers in France and the US, and running creative and development teams as a General Manager.