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Ari Ackerman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer


Like many former campers, Ari never outgrew his love of the camping industry. As a career camper, Ari spent many memorable summers at Camp Winaukee in Lake Winnapasaukee, NH and at Camp Mohawk in White Plains, NY. His twelve year career reached its apex when, as color war captain, he lead his dominant blue team to a landslide victory. Ari hopes that Bunk1.com will serve as means to give back to an industry that gave so much to him.

At Bunk1, Ari is responsible for the company's growth, strategic development and overall management. He graduated with honors from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management with concentrations in marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. His background includes product management with the Sunny Delight brand at Procter & Gamble, and with the Marketing department of HFS (now Cendant corporation). Additionally, he worked on Capitol Hill for the Banking and Financial Services Committee.

With baby-soft hands, cheetah-like instincts and a swing that would make Donnie Baseball jealous, Ari, Bunk1's third baseman, is the cornerstone of our softball team. In what only can be considered an egregious oversight, Ari just narrowly missed getting voted onto baseball's all-century team. We can only hope that the voting committee won't make the same mistake twice.

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Ed Metzendorf
Managing Director


Ed attended camp for 10 meaningful summers, running the gamut from day camp and tennis camp to residential camps (Camp Wildwood in Bridgton, ME and Camp Androscoggin in Wayne, ME). Ed's love of camping led him to spending his summers directing tennis programs at Camp Pinecliffe and Gordon Kent's New England Tennis Camp. After graduating from Connecticut College, Ed spent four years as a Director of Westcoast Connection Travel Camp. At Westcoast Connection Ed created, directed and supervised Westcoast Connection's Golf and Tennis Division. Additionally, he was involved in all aspects of tour member recruiting and staff hiring.

As Managing Director, Ed oversees the Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams at Bunk1.com. Additionally, Ed works closely with the sales team helping to develop and maintain relationships with Camps and Camp Owners/Directors.

While Ed came on board too late for softball season, he has shown surprising grace and prowess on the hoops court. Ed, with his quick hands, soft touch, and almost-implausible court sense, holds, until this very day, the Dwight School scoring record with 62 points in one game. Additionally, he won 7 intramural championships and likes to tell us about it.

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Ali Mann
Senior Sales Manager


Ali, born and raised in New York, started her camp career at the early age of 7. She spent 5 summers at Camp Lakota where she was color war captain and lead alma mater song writer for multiple color war squads (if you're looking for a freelance song-writer, you've found your woman). After that, she attended Camp Kweebec for 4 more wonderful summers. Like the rest of us at Bunk1, she wishes her summers at camp never ended.

Ali graduated from Queens College with a 3.98 GPA (we can brag about her, even if she can't) with a degree in Sociology. Combining her love of camp and her love of people, she found herself at Bunk1 where she is the Senior Sales Manager. Her responsibilities include bringing new camps on board to work with Bunk1, managing new client needs, and maintaining relationships with our current client base.

An unsung hero on the Bunk1 softball squad, Ali played varsity softball in High School. She's been disappointed in her play thus far (attributing her play to the fact that she's not 17 anymore— although she still looks it). Whether it's gunning out runners at the plate with her rifle of an arm from right field or it's nailing runners at second when playing catcher, Ali is a player to reckoned with. Look for her to have a big season next year.

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Danny Moses
Database Specialist/ Camp Liaison

At the young age of 5, Danny spent his first summer at camp and never knew it would lead to a career in the camping industry. A native New Yorker, Danny attended day camp and then went to URJ Eisner for 13 summers, serving as a camper, counselor, unit head and camp administrator.

After his days as a camper were over, Danny worked at the Samuel Field Y for 8 years as the Director of Children’s Services. During the school year he ran an after school program and during the summer he ran the Junior Day Camp.

At Bunk1, Danny is a Database Specialist and Camp Liaison; assisting camps with setup, training and customer support with not only the Bunk1DB database, but our summer services.

By day Danny may be a Database Specialist, but by night he is a world class bocce ball and ultimate Frisbee player. He spends his free time perfecting his skills and stays in shape in the off-season by chasing his young son around the house.

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Jeff Mitchell
Database Specialist / Camp Liaison

Jeff hails from New Hampshire and grew up spending his summers at camp and his winters in the mountains skiing. After working as a page in the House of Representatives in high school, Jeff went onto Middlebury College and majored in Political Science and Environmental Studies.

Camp Laurel South was Jeff’s home away from home for 8 summers, as both a camper and a staff. After working as a counselor, he continued in the industry at CCUSA in California, bringing international students to work as counselors at camps across the USA.

After working at CCUSA, Jeff decided to make his way back to the East Coast and joined the Bunk1 team as a Database Specialist and Camp Liaison. Along with assisting camps with their database needs, Jeff also monitors and updates our Bunk1 DB Blog.

Despite calling New York City home now, Jeff is an avid fan of all Boston sports teams and is looking forward to showing off his softball skills on the field next season, while wearing his Red Sox hat.

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Marcus Perkal
Database Specialist / Camp Liaison

New Jersey native Marcus attended several day and residential camps starting at age 5. He spent 4 summers at Camps Modin and Starlight, went on 3 teen tours and held the title of Blue & Gold Games Captain at Blue Rill Day Camp, where he worked for 4 summers.

Marcus graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Economics and since joining the Bunk1 team has taken on the role of Database Specialist for Bunk1 DB, our Camp Management and Online Registration system. In this role he assists camps with Bunk1 DB customer and technical support.

Although Marcus is not known for his athletic ability, he is an avid sports fan and our resident guru on all things pertaining to the sports world. He claims to be a former chicken nugget eating champion, although we have yet to see the trophy to prove it.

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Jacob Zlotoff
Director of Client Development


Put simply, Jacob was born to be part of the camp world: he has the distinction of having parents who originally met as summer camp sweethearts. Jacob brings a wide variety of camping experience to Bunk1.com, having been a camper or counselor at day camps, day and residence sports camps, and long-term sleep-away camps. Highlights include Tumbleweed Day Camp, No. 1 Goalkeeper Camps, and UAHC Camp Swig. More recently, Jacob was a program director at UAHC Camp Newman and President of NFTY.

As Bunk1's Director of Client Development, Jacob is responsible for overseeing the development and maintenance of relationships with camps, camp owners/directors, and camp organizations. Additionally, Jacob is responsible for creating and implementing Bunk1's marketing programs. Jacob is a California native, originally from Santa Monica, CA. He is graduate of Haverford College, with experience in the public policy arena, including a stint at the White House.

Jacob, our pitcher, has devastated opposition all season long with a nasty mix of lobs and semi-lobs. What Jacob lacks in upper body strength, he more than makes up for with gargantuan legs, a seemingly endless pool of energy, a consistently level swing, and a well-rehearsed swagger.

 

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David Gomberg
Chief Web Officer


David took a less traditional summer camp route, choosing to explore a variety of camps rather than sticking with one. He spent a total of twelve summers attending six different camps, finishing his career as a counselor at Boys Harbor in Long Island, NY.

David's responsibilities at Bunk1 include overseeing the overall production of the Bunk1.com site. He focuses on site usability, content, and functionality, relying greatly on his experience working in creative/youth markets. After graduating from Duke University, David worked at Nextoy, a toy development company specializing in the placement of new concepts into the children's product industry. While working at Nextoy, David co-authored three books geared towards the Gen Y/Gen X markets: 'Would You Rather…?' (Penguin 1997), 'Would You Rather 2: Electric Boogaloo' (Penguin 1999), and 'Do Unto Others: Over 1000 Hilarious Ways to Screw with People's Heads' (St. Martin's Press 2000).

Due to chronic bad knees, David serves as Bunk1's 1st baseman. While not the most agile player on the field, his consistency and even-keel temperament make David an asset both on the field and in the clubhouse.