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Press and Media Center for Kasidie, the Swingers Magazine

Bios of Kasidie’s Key Executives

Led by Scott Purcell, Kasidie.com has put in place an initial team with tremendous experience in relevant industries including internet infrastructure, software development, database design and media syndication. The team consists of professionals with substantial experience in taking start-up internet enterprises through growth, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. And, yes, we are active in the swinger community.



Scott Purcell – Publisher
Mr. Purcell has been in the internet industry since the inception of the browser, founding Epoch Networks in 1994 and building it into the largest privately-held ISP in the country; with 240 POPs and a national tier-one backbone. Epoch served corporate customers (e.g. Hughes Satellite, American Red Cross, FHLB Atlanta, et al) and built a large private label reseller network consisting of telecom companies around the country. In March 1999 Mr. Purcell founded OnAir Networks and quickly positioned it as the leading music distribution service; building the music streaming and downloading services for such companies as Sony and Universal. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. Purcell has appeared before Congress on numerous occasions and helped shape early internet policy with the FCC. He has been on the Board of the Commercial Internet eXchange, and was the internet liaison for the Recording Industry Association of America.

University of Southern California - BS, Entrepreneurship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) - Entrepreneurial Masters


Dave Levine – CTO
Mr. Levine has over 15 years of experience designing, developing, architecting and optimizing large scale database systems. He has led development of projects for Universal, Disney, TRW, and others, and has worked as an outside workflow and optimization consultant for Microsoft and Warner Bros. At OnAir Streaming Networks Mr. Levine was Vice President of Application Development and architected the security technology, system design, database structures, and affiliate applications. After the acquisition of OnAir, Mr. Levine was retained to lead the parent company's engineering and became their technical lead for mergers and acquisitions.

University of California, Irvine - BS, Computer Science
University of California, Irvine - BS, Mathematics


Steve Harwood – Editor & Creative Director
Mr. Harwood has over a decade of experience in a multitude of creative media: from stage, to screen, to web and print. He has written articles for Raven Magazine and the LA Innuendo. In 2005, after premiering a series of original comedic online short films about swinging, he was hired as a creative consultant for several prominent lifestyle companies. He is often recognized as the creator of www.coupledoingit.com, a tongue in cheek multimedia website devoted to the education of swingers, whose video "The Lifestyle & You" has become an international internet sensation. He recently co-wrote and published the "Yo Momma Vocabulary Builder", a book devoted to increasing word power through humor.

Claremont Colleges (Pitzer) - BA, Media Studies & Creative Writing

Dave Feroe – VP, Design & Integration
Mr. Feroe has twenty years of graphic design experience in both corporate and freelance settings, creating a wide variety of print media for organizations large and small, including USA Olympic Cycling, Kryptonics, Lexus-Rossignol Pro Ski Team, and the United States Water Polo Association. It is this wealth of experience which he brought to web design in 1994, creating new and visually lush online branding for a wide array of clients. He has been part of the team since inception and provides unparalleled energy, visual flair, a deeply committed work ethic and a well-honed ability to translate the founders concepts and customers desires into web reality.

University of Denver - BA, Mass Communications & Creative Writing
University of Colorado, Denver - Post Collegiate work in Broadcast & Print Media



For more information, please contact:
Scott Purcell, Publisher, Kasidie Magazine, 303-807-3606, scott@kasidie.com