Founders

Andrew leads product and business management, and works on front-end code and marketing content. He previously co-founded Gaia GPS (acquired by Outside), where he had a similar role and wrote a lot of iPhone code. Andrew was a competitive Magic player in the early 2000s, and has top 8s in PTs/GPs.

George leads software engineering. George is an early-stage startup engineer, was the senior-most Data Platform engineer at Clover Health from pre-Series A through Series E, created the Data Engineering team at Samsara, previously worked at Google, and has contributed to open source Magic software.

Tom leads operations and logistics. Tom has decades of experience in Magic commerce, and he owns PlusEV Games in Camarillo, CA and runs MTG tournaments. Tom worked for Wizards and led competitive coverage as editor-in-chief of The Sideboard. He was a competitive Magic player in his youth, with a GP top 8 and a Georgia State Championship title from his teens.

Engineers

Jason Schein

Jason is an engineer of 15 years who first learned programming trying to make custom Warcraft 3 maps as kid. He's played Magic since a 4th grade vacation where he and his brother picked up some packs of Odyssey from an arcade, and played by Pokemon rules until their friend's brother taught them for real. Jason has played in a few PTs, and loves any type of limited.

Gwen Dekker

Gwen is a software developer with a passion for building tools in the Magic space. Outside of Mana Pool, Gwen is founder of CubeCobra and Hedron Network. He has been playing Magic since 2010 and loves Cube draft.

David Lowe

David is a software engineer. He's been coding since before Magic existed, and he's been playing Magic since 2012 or so. Imagine a nerd... yep, that's him!

Operations and Support

Brin Reed

Brin is the Operations Lead at Mana Pool, where he focuses on financial operations, fraud prevention, and making sure things run smoothly across payouts, seller verification, and day-to-day business needs. Outside of work, he’s a regular at his local game store for Friday night drafts and loves hosting drafts at home when he can. His latest chaos draft had 16 people across two pods, which is probably about the limit of his space. He’s also a big fan of board games and anything that gets people around a table.

Adam Klesh

Adam has been playing Magic since 1994, and previously worked at Card Kingdom. His job there was designing and testing their Battle Decks, Commander Decks, Cubes, and other custom products. Adam runs a tiny game shop (Analog Games) in my tiny town, and I have a storefront on Mana Pool, too! He spends a lot of my free time holding his cat, Betelgeuse, up so he can look outside and get mad at birds.

Pamela Bartual

Pamela is a transplant from Chile who has been selling Magic cards for over 2 years now at her shop in Pennsylvania. She loves playing Magic, and would love to have more time to actually play it...someday! In the meantime, she absolutely loves providing great service and helping buyers receive their orders as fast as possible.

Myles Gann

Myles is a relative newbie to Magic, coming in around Theros Beyond Death and is that one guy that uses those big "Pokemon lands". Sealed is his bread and butter, and he's won a handful of store championships and Arena events on the back of those six glorious, mysterious packs. He's too afraid of losing friends to play casual Commander with them, but he'll do whatever it takes to win a game of Mario Party.

Advisors

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