Founded in May 2005 by Christian Perry, ZapTix empowers performance groups, organizations, companies, conventions, and individuals to sell tickets and organize events online.

The vision for ZapTix came in the early spring of 2005, when Christian was a student at the University of Chicago. He was acting in a small musical performance put on by Naked Theater, a small student-run theater troupe. A lot of people wanted to reserve seats in advance, so Christian suggested that the group sell their tickets online. The director sprang for it, and so Chrisitian made a small page on the theater's site for anyone who wanted to buy them.

To everyone's surprise, more than half of the audience used the website to buy tickets -- it was an instant success. Christian realized how much he could help other small venues by making a site that made online ticket sales fast and easy. And that's when ZapTix was born.

ZapTix is now a small and growing company. Christian remains at the head, and he works with a four-person development team and an all-star group of advisors, hailing from across the globe.

Christian Perry, Founder & CEO
cperry@zaptix.com
Christian is a lifelong lover of live performance. Before founding ZapTix, he was an amateur actor at the University of Chicago, where he graduated in June, 2006. He currently plans to move to the San Francisco Bay Area in September, 2006.

Prior to founding ZapTix, Christian engaged in a number of smaller-scale entrepreneurial endeavors. His first company, MacShrine, was an online shareware registration service for Macintosh-based software. In addition, he worked for a number of years as a web designer for Princeton University, and ran an eBay business selling hard-to-find Japanese comics when he lived in Tokyo in 2002.

Christian has a deep and passionate interest in business, technology, and entrepreneurship, which he blogs about at www.mashdown.com. Outside of these areas, he enjoys gaming, travelling, writing, acting, zen meditation, and reading. Christian graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006 with a degree in Sociology.