Meet the Team Behind TicketSignup

500 + years of combined experience driving innovation, collaboration and long-term thinking

TicketSignup was created to solve problems for event directors. In 2009, Bob Bickel was frustrated by the existing solutions for race registration and founded RunSignup; in 2019, the team behind RunSignup focused their event technology expertise on solving problems for ticket events. Today, our team’s priority is delivering best in class technology to ticket event customers and ensuring optimal implementation for a better event day.

From our behind-the-scenes finance team to our developers to our customer-facing support team, every employee at TicketSignup is working to help event organizers create better event experiences through the power of technology.

Our Sales and Customer Support team ensures that our customers use these tools to their maximum potential throughout the full event cycle: Marketing, Ticket Sales, and Event Day.

Our Development team builds the best software in the event industry to boost sales, optimize ticketing, and streamline Event Day.

The Power of an Employee Owned Company

TicketSignup is an employee owned company with a focus on longevity. We believe that running a successful company requires finding balance between owners, employees, and customers. By keeping ownership in-house (instead of taking on outside investors), we are able to provide a stable working environment and keep employees long-term. In turn, we are able to maintain significant industry knowledge, build better software, and offer continuous support to our customers.

500+ Collective Years of Effort and Experience at TicketSignup
23% of Employees Have More Than 10 Years at TicketSIgnup
63% of Employees Have More than 5 Years at TicketSignup

Led By Our Guiding Principles

Work >> Learn >> Fun >> Teamwork

Why do TicketSignup team members get up every morning and come to work? Working hard, learning continuously, having fun, and collaborating with a team are necessary for a fulfilling job and a successful company.

Responsibility >> Trust >> Efficiency

To keep all the disparate parts of a company progressing, every employee needs to feel a sense of responsibility and trust. When that happens, you build a culture that is efficient and forward moving.

Employees >> Customers >> Owners

The key stakeholders of TicketSignup are the owners, the employees, and the customers. The needs of all three can only be met by sharing power and building empathy between the groups.


Guided By Our Core Values

Be Open

We embrace openness. This means maintaining an Open API, providing honest, clear answers to customers, and offering transparency around our business practices.

Collaborate

We encourage constant collaboration. This means building technology based on continual communication between employees, owners, and customers.

Innovate

We welcome change. This allows us to innovate. Growth comes from being bold and adapting along with new technologies and event trends.

Iterate

We focus on continuous improvement. This means prioritizing better over perfect and allowing for iterative improvement based on experience and feedback.

Long Term

We build for the long term. This means building teams with longevity and products that are scalable, secure, and designed for maximum reliability.

Where is TicketSignup?

Our trust in our employees allows TicketSignup to operate as a a hybrid company. We have three office hubs, with around 60% of employees living within driving distance of one of them:

  • Moorestown, NJ
  • Richmond, VA
  • Orlando, FL

The remaining 40% of employees are spread out throughout 16 states from the East Coast to West. We collaborate and work together through a combination of online meeting tools and regular in-person gatherings throughout the year.


Meet Some of the TicketSignup Team

Setting the Tone
Leadership

TicketSignup was founded by current CEO, Bob Bickel in 2010. Today, Bob and the rest of the leadership team set product priorities and workplace culture for the company. In keeping with TicketSignup’s core values of openness, leadership regularly provides customers with transparent information about the company and the industry through seasonal reports and Founders Corner blogs. Have a question? Just ask!


Providing Support, 7-Days a Week
The TicketSignup Support Team

TicketSignup offers multiple layers of support for event customers of all sizes. First up, the TicketSignup Support Team handles high volume, 7-day-a-week support through the info@ticketsignup.io email and our online portal for support tickets. TicketSignup Support ensures speedy, accurate answers to all your setup questions.


The True TicketSignup Experts
The Account Managers

Meanwhile, our Account Management Team is made up of true technology experts to help customers make smarter decisions about their ticketing setup and event execution Account Managers bring a genuine passion to the events they work with. With significant personal experience as event directors, the account management team is all about helping customers create amazing events.


Building the Event Ticketing Technology
The Development Team

Event Direvtors need technology that is both innovative and reliable. To deliver best in class technology, our development team works tirelessly to continuously improve our products and ensure our processes are secure and scalable.


Steamlining Event Day
The EventDay Technology Team

The TicketSignup EventDay team is our group of developers and product managers who craft our Tickets App for CheckIn and other event day products. Through continuous loops of feedback and improvement, they create event day tools with real world applications.


Solving Event Problems
Sales and Marketing

The TicketSignup sales and marketing teams are little less about traditional sales & marketing, and more about using education to help events succeed. The process begins with sales learning about the challenges of each specific event, while marketing ensures that each and every event has the technology information they need to grow year after year.


Meet More TicketSignup Team Members

Check out our full library of TicketSignup team members to learn more about the role each member plays in providing technology for your events.


The TicketSignup Team Productivity By the Numbers

26,000+ Support Team Tickets Answered Per Year
31 min, 50 sec - Average Response Time for Support Tickets
48,000+ Emails Sent by Account Managers in 2024
16,000+ Phone Calls Made By Account Managers in 2024
2,000+ Software Releases Each Year
99.999886% Uptime Since 2015 (6 Minutes Total Downtime)
5.4 Million People Checked In By The CheckIn App in 2024
2 Million Lines of Code

Thank You To Our Team!

“Oh, also wanted to let you know that I have been so impressed with the service I’ve received the couple of times I have emailed the [support team]. I had a couple of members who were having trouble and I copied the help email and the issues were resolved within a couple of minutes each time. Just wanted to pass that along. Everyone, including you, has provided excellent and timely service and help when it was needed. I appreciate it greatly and it has definitely made the transfer a positive one. ”

— April F

“I just wanted to say “Thank you” for creating such a beautiful and intuitive product. This is my first year and so far I am over-the-moon happy with the transition. Our previous product was not nearly as customizable, user friendly, and aesthetically pleasing. Thank you so much for making my job so much easier!!”

— Katherine H

“I can’t thank you enough for helping us with Spiedie Fest. Congrats on your success with the company. I love to see local folks succeed. Jake and Elisabeth have gone above and beyond to help. They are amazing. If you ever have a client that can’t get off Ticketmaster or another site, please give them my number, I will do all I can. I have to admit I was nervous, but I love it. Call me anytime and if you come up let me know I will put you up in a hotel and you can come to fest. 41 years of doing this, day 1 seems like yesterday.”

— David P.

Our festival has a long history – this year was our 53rd – and legacy procedures have weighed down the check-in experience. Finding Jake and James at IBMA last year was an answer to our gate problems. We had most recently been using Eventbrite, but their check-in app opened up more financial data to the users than we thought necessary. The ability to scan codes and/or lookup names by devices that connect to a central database was a game changer. No longer did we need to check every pre-purchase and pass against a printed list, which over time had become book length.

Having James be present when the gate opened was a great help to us. Since this was our first time, there were steps I understood conceptually, but wasn’t exactly sure how to implement. James was able to explain the steps and troubleshoot glitches that came up – mostly when the Starlink connection was interrupted.  It was reassuring to the long-time volunteers who were used to the old system. After using it for several transactions, they admitted that this was a better way to handle the gate. 


All in all our experience with TicketSignup was highly positive. In the future we hope to expand our use of other features like the marketing options. 

— Debbie D.

TicketSignup is an easy transition, and if you’re already using RunSignup, the learning curve is minimal. Once you realize how many tools are included—like free email—it becomes a no-brainer.”

— Billy O.

“We used RunSignup and TicketSignup because they just work. The tools are easy to use, the websites look great, and the support is always there when we need it.”

— Trevor R.

 “I had been with Eventbrite for ten years. When I first started, I had an account manager and felt like I had some support when I had questions about setting up the event, there was a person I could go to. Over time, it got to the point where if I had a question I was calling an 800 number and had no support. No one knew my event, no one could help me.”

— Molly S.

“I was new to the platform, so it was great that Jake took the time to walk me through building the website, and setting up the store. It was really helpful.”

— Caroline B.

“With our parks and rec software – we still have open support and feature request tickets from the 1990s. So kudos to TicketSignup for getting things done. Any time Elisabeth [TicketSignup Senior Account Manager] puts in an enhancement request, it gets addressed by the next event. It’s been such a welcome change.”

— Andrew K.

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