| Tapscan,
Inc. is the common denominator among the team of experienced radio
software professionals of Cornerstone
Research. Brad Riegel, Mark Schreiber, Dale Radtke, and Angie Owens
all worked with
each other at Tapscan, accumulating over fifty years of combined
experience at the Birmingham-based software company. Geno
Pearson joins all of the ex-Tapscan staff adding further depth to
our radio heritage with his wealth of radio programming and music
industry experience.
Brad
Riegel - President
Brad
Riegel is one of the industry's leading experts on understanding,
interpreting and presenting Arbitron™ data. From nearly its inception,
Brad was the lead developer for the Tapscan product. As one of Tapscan's
original hires and its VP/Product Development for fifteen years,
Brad has been crunching Arbitron™ data for a long time. But
Brad's not a "wirehead," he's a regular guy who loves and knows
radio. As
a former radio programmer, researcher and air personality, Brad
brings a broad perspective to all the projects he oversees for Cornerstone
Research.
Mark
Schreiber - VP/General Manager
Mark
Schreiber also developed his chops at Tapscan, where he mostly spent
his eleven years as GM of the MusicScan division (MusicScan was
the music scheduling program now known as MusicMaster). Between
his Tapscan and Cornerstone experience, Mark has been providing
software to radio programmers for over twenty years, which makes him
feel very old. Mark's background is in radio programming.
His last gig was with (then) KOB-AM/FM/Albuquerque,
where in the mid-80's he helped the stations achieve a 29.3 combo
share (12+). If you want to endear yourself to him, bring up
the Dodgers!
Dale
Radtke
- Senior Software Architect
Dale
Radtke enjoyed five successful years at Tapscan/Arbitron working
primarily on TapMedia, the web-based delivery and production system
for customer downloads. Prior to joining Cornerstone Research Dale
had an extensive background developing web-based and desktop
software applications and worked for Microsoft in the Seattle area before relocating to
Alabama. Prior to that he served in the U.S. Army for 20
years, as a pilot and intelligence officer.
Geno
Pearson
- Product Manager, Hook Exchange
Geno has been working in
radio for over 20 years. His career started in
Houston
as Music Director for KHMX where he worked under PD Guy Zapoleon. After 7 years in
Houston
between KHMX and KTBZ Geno moved on to
MD at KNRX,
Oklahoma City,
APD at WKSI, Greensboro,
NC and most
recently Program
Director at WRRS, Birmingham. He also participated in the Active
Industry Research (AIR) competition for Fall 2001 and placed 2nd out of 100 PD’s and MD’s from across
the country at predicting the chart success of new records that come
out each week. An expert in (and
fan of) music of all genres, Geno also programs five channels for Webcaster GotRadio.com. Geno, his wife Michele, their son
Rhett, and their dog
Ruby live in Birmingham.
Angie Owens
- Product/Data Specialist
Angie joined Cornerstone as another Tapscan/Arbitron alumni. During her tenure there Angie worked
extensively with many forms of quantitative and qualitative data
as well as managing development of data processing systems. She
also worked with numerous software products developing
requirements, performing quality assurance and overseeing their
deployment. Most recently Angie worked for the ad agency
Intermark in their Interactive
division. Angie and her husband Jonathan live in Birmingham
with their two sons and daughter.
Dale Radtke, Geno Pearson, Brad Riegel, Mark Schreiber, Angie
Owens. July 2008
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