STARPLAYIT PTY LTD
ABN 62 115 128 562 | ACN 115 128 562

StarPlayit Pty Ltd (formerly In the Chair) is a privately held Australian company with a wholly owned US subsidiary, In the Chair USA, that has raised seed capital from private sources.

BOARD & MANAGEMENT TEAM:

David Evans
Founder| CEO | Director & Secretary
David Evans is the entrepreneur who founded StarPlayit. After leaving his role as IT Manager of the Adelaide Festival, Australia's premier arts event, in 2000, David started the digital content production company Digital Monkey, servicing the Australian Entertainment Industry and working closely with creative people on a plethora of applications and content for the digital and interactive screen. David identified the StarPlayit opportunity while working with his then client, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. A partnership was formed to create StarPlayit, leveraging David’s global digital music and entertainment contacts and his extensive arts and information technology experience.

Mark Jeffries
Director
Mark Jeffries represents StarPlayit’s largest investor. Prior to retiring in 2000 to concentrate on private investments, Mark spent 12 years as a corporate and tax partner of a national law firm. While practicing law he formed and led a successful IT and telco legal consulting practice working on technology, telco, and due diligence projects for central government, multinationals and corporations. Mark is a board member of several privately held technology companies; a director of Massey University's incubator based in New Zealand; and has had a number of high profile governance roles. Mark has an LLB and Master of Taxation (Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and has co-authored international publications on M&A Law (1990) and Telecommunications in the Pacific Rim (1998).

Andrew Edwards
Director
Andrew Edwards is the second board member to represent StarPlayit’s largest shareholder.  Andrew is the Chief Investment Officer for a large private investment group based in New Zealand responsible for a wide ranging portfolio of property, manufacturing, biotechnology and IT investments.  Prior to joining this group Andrew had over 20 years of senior investment banking roles in New Zealand, Australia and the UK with market leading organisations such as Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.  Andrew lead and managed a range of M&A, capital raising and advisory transactions in a range of industries.  

Greg Hinton
Director

David Bennett
Director 

Chris Matters
Founder | Chief Operating Officer
Chris Matters has been the Program Director for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra since 2001 whose main role is to develop new and innovative means to generate revenue for the orchestra. Chris has worked with ITC and Digital Monkey since its technology conception phase and has been a key driver and contact within the Classical Music arena. Chris brings over 8 years of experience as the Education and Audience Development Manager Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with responsibility to create, develop and manage the ASO Education and Audience Program, which means that he has the necessary knowledge of the eduction market for classical music.  This program operated as a complete business entity covering all aspects of the work of the ASO and reached audiences from 4 years to 84 years old.  Education Program attendances between 1992 and 1999 increased from 2000 to 20,000 people annually.

An ex Specialist Music Teacher, curriculum writer and examiner with the SA Department of Education, Chris has the knowledge, contacts and experience to take In the Chair to the classical market world wide.

Doug Hardy
Chief Architect
Doug began his career at Ngapartji Multimedia Centre where he planned, implemented and supported the nineMSn network at the EDS data centre. Following this Doug was Chief Architect on a number of large scale websites for government, garnering him numerous awards, culminating in the creation of an advanced web services system for the Microsoft Innovation Centre. Doug is an accomplished musician, highly skilled in piano and guitar. At StarPlayit, prior to his promotion to Chief Architect, Doug managed user experience design web services infrastructure.

Greg Siegele
Investor
Greg Siegele was Chief Executive of Ratbag, a video game developer that sold over two million games he co-founded in 1993. Greg is now busy managing his portfolio of investments after selling Ratbag to Midway in 2005. Greg is now an active investor in StarPlayit.