For nearly a decade, Emochila has been the premier website design company for accounting firms. We currently manage thousands of websites for CPAs and accountants across the United States. Located in San Francisco, we are at the heart of the Internet industry.
Team
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Chad Brubaker
Co-Founder
Chad is an MBA candidate at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as a developer for several Web-based companies and as an Internet security consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Clients included Daimler Chrysler, American Airlines, WellPoint Networks, Unocal, and Transora.
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Justin Curzi
Co-Founder
Justin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Amherst College. His tenure included several years with First Investors Corporation, a prominent Wall Street investment boutique. Justin brings expertise in financial management and business analysis to our company. Clients included prominent investors with Jones New York, A. M. Best, Merrill Lynch, and Google.
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Mark Bourbin
Operations Manager
Mark earned a Bachelor of Science degree from San Francisco State University and began working with Emochila in 2007. A sixth generation San Franciscan, he is one of only a few "natives" to have worked at Emochila. He lives a scant few blocks from the Pacific Ocean with his wife Mandy and young son Jake. When not spending time with family or friends, he tends to be working on computers, either for Emochila or his own amusement.
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Peter Andrews
Sales Lead
Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Amherst College. He grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and is excited to be living on the West Coast. In his free time he likes to watch sports, ride his bike, and go skiing.
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Catherine Draper
Sales Director
Catherine spent twelve years in the magazine/newspaper industry before coming aboard at Emochila. She spent her first few years in our San Francisco office before trading fog for cowboy boots and moving to Austin, Texas. In addition to opening our Southwest office, she raises her teenage son, plays chess and hikes the Barton Creek Greenbelt with her dogs.
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David Garrett
Lead Graphic Designer
David earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Salisbury (Maryland) University and is a stickler for details and extremely organized. He respects and utilizes color, typography, research, visual stimulation and sudden inspiration to effectively communicate the client's messages and identity. He thrives on unique challenges in every project - small or large - and delivers just the right blend of a client's ideology with cutting edge design.
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Geoff Guidetti
Lead Developer & Architect
Geoff earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He quickly learned how to talk and befriend computers, and moved to the Bay Area from Boston in order to focus on web development and design. He is currently involved in much of the coding that goes on behind the scenes at Emochila. While he is a self-proclaimed internet expert and is becoming nerdier every day, he also dabbles in visual arts, performance arts, writing, and snowboards.
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Andrew Stanton
Senior Developer & Architect
Andrew has been programming computer systems for over 20 years, and enjoys developing interactive "Web" applications that can be used and seen by millions. He is especially passionate about helping smaller companies grow through the use of IT and web technologies. After working as a contract developer for the US Air Force, and a number of startups in the Bay Area, he began working to improve Emochila's customer experience. Andrew has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Hawaii.
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Arthur Wong
Senior Technical Support Specialist
Art earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University in Broadcasting. He has spent the last 10 years working in the Television Sports Productions field in the Bay Area. In his spare time, you can find him playing organized softball, working out or being a couch potato.
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Julia Test
Client Account Manager
Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University in psychology. She is originally from Moscow, Russia. But has called San Francisco her home for most of her life. Outside of work she spends her time as a freelance photographer, an outdoors enthusiast, and a rock-climbing yogi.
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Daniel Montgomery
Technical Support Specialist
Dan lives in San Francisco. He is an avid gamer and cat enthusiast.
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What?
Emochila (e-mo-chee-la)
Mochila is Spanish for backpack. We use it to represent our suite of client retention and aquisition tools. The E is for Electronic, meaning you can use everything with just a computer and an internet connection. -
Overview
Emochila has maintained its loyal client base by giving detailed attention and service to each and every client. Though our offering provides hundreds of web tools and pages of accounting content, we inherently believe that each firm is unique and their website is the best way to convey that. Thus our goal is to level the playing field by offering a full suite of online tools and content to firms of all sizes, while also tailoring each site to accurately represent the individuality of the firm.
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background
Emochila was founded by Chad Brubaker and Justin Curzi in 2003. Both were young expatriates living in Rio de Janiero, Brazil seeking adventure and new opportunities. Chad had begun his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting with Fortune 500 companies on Internet Security. Meanwhile, Justin was working at a prominent Wall Street investment boutique refining his financial analysis and consulting skills. After meeting on the sandy beaches of Rio, they asked themselves: why can't we build websites for accountants that have all the bells and whistles of massive accounting firm websites, and leverage that for small to mid-sized accounting firms? With a new mission, they developed the answer to this question with the powerful website building tool SiteWizard, a proprietary platform for serving high-powered, sleek websites.
After refining the software and constructing a viable business and marketing plan, they returned to the United States. Landing in San Francisco, the heart of Silicon Valley, they had infinite access to all of the web-based knowledge and resources in the area. After selling their first CPA website, they spent the following years reinvesting every cent into making Emochila the premier website design firm for accountants. Now in its 4th iteration, SiteWizard continues to reliably host thousands of websites, with a constantly improving level of functionality and flexibility that allows Emochila to serve firms of all sizes. The Emochila team is now made up of over 20 talented and passionate employees that are always seeking to improve their offering and client satisfaction.
Call us and find out why the accounting profession regards us at the most friendly, smart, and professional group of workers in the space!
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Address
Emochila
2601 Mission Street, Suite 503
San Francisco, CA 94110 -
Phone
Monday-Friday 8am-4pm PST
866.340.5652 -
Fax
800.798.0573
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Email
