About us

The birth of Barmano. 2007 A.D.

Barmano was originally a fun project to create the best cocktail site out there with really cool features, that has avalanched into something much much larger. And yes, there are a gazillion cocktail sites out there, a humbling realization. Since we love a good humbling experience, we've adjusted our goals to be the best "all things bar" website. And you know what? It's still fun! And growing! At the core of the project is our love for a quality drink in hand, good conversation and exploring new places. It's an important part of so many cultures and traditions. We hope you feel the same way, whether a professional in the industry or someone who just love a good cocktail, beer, or wine with friends after work. Our bar guide is rapidly expanding with over 49,000 listings in 50 countries! So pleanty of opportunity to discover new places. Anywhere.

Anything new coming? Absolutely! We're pretty geek at heart, so count on lots of new stuff to come. With our drink and ingredient catalog expansion, growth in community features, social networking opportunities, and bar and related hospitality job center, Barmano is growing it's list of project contributors that are passionate about we're doing. You can follow all the latest happenings at Barmano's blog.

Why so many bars, why not just have "the best"? Well, we feel everyone has different tastes and we leave it to the community to rate and review their favorites (or least favorite) places.

So get started, find your favorite drinks, local hangout, friends, and start sharing. Can't find something? Add it! Missing your friends? Invite them! Got an idea for something that would be totally cool, or incredibly helpful? Let us know!

The Team

David Slade

David, a native of the NW parts of the United States, started his professional career at Microsoft as a Program Manager. Around that time he lived a short time in Dublin and Belfast (and swears that Guinness IS better over there). Afterwards he joined the online bookseller, Amazon.com. Over a span of about 6 years he held several positions and worked on many projects. While caught in the fray of launching Amazon's French and Japanese websites, he moved to France. David also worked as a Program Manager in Usability and Metrics, Group Program Manager and then Amazon.fr Website Production Manager. After Amazon, he worked at VNU Business Media Europe (now defunct) where he was European CTO of Online Technologies for a couple years. David holds degrees in Business Administration, and dabbled in Psychology, from Seattle Pacific University. He's hoping to soon call San Francisco home. Despite many "German vs English" beer arguements around him, no contest there, he still likes cocktails and wine more. His favorite cocktail is the Sidecar.

Steffen Mueller

Steffen is Barmano's object oriented coding machine, and keeper of bar data cleanliness and integrity. He started his professional career at Amazon.de as a Web Developer and worked his way up to Development Team Manager. After several years he left Amazon, and then worked with David at VNU to help develop a European-wide software downloads platform and blogging systems. He later refocused on software development (including Sun Certified Programmer in Java). He's lived the last 8 year in munich and is a passionate Snowboarder since moving so close to the Alps. His favorite Cocktail is the White Russian ever since he watched The Big Lebowski.

Adam Hurley

Adam is Barmano's Australian designer and web developer. Like so many other antipodeans, he has made the trek half way across the globe to the UK and now can't be bothered going back.

Starting off in web and graphic design in Melbourne, he's since become more of a front-end developer during his time at VNU in London with David and Steffen. There he was a part of the launch of several European based sites. Now he is a web mercenary for hire, currently on contract to Bauer Publishing. Here is his neato folio.

He likes beer, especially German beer. He's also partial to an Irish Coffee or three

Friends of Barmano: Super Contributors and Advisors

Daniel Yaffe

Based out of San Francisco, Daniel is the CEO of Drink Me, a lifestyle magazine that covers the worlds of art and culture behind and inside of bars and alcohols around the world. They reach far beyond other drink related magazine to bring substance back to booze. Drink Me is free and will be distributed to bars and liquor stores. Get yours soon! Check them out and get on the email list www.drinkmemag.com or email info@drinkmemag.com. Daniel's favorite cocktail is a Caipirinha or a Laughing Buddha from Cantina (San Francisco).

David Boublil

David is a highly experience recruiter (EMEA Recruitment Manager at Google), with experience hunting down people in the most remote corners of the world. He's our favorite advisor to our jobs center.

Vashti Humphrey

Of British origin, but can't get enough of Spanish life, Vashti is our tireless advisor to Spanish linguistic issues.

Sven Jacquet

More about me, coming soon!

Jacob Share

Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of Group Writing Projects, and JobMob, a blog helping people find jobs in Israel and around the world. Jacob has been a constant sounding board for ideas since nearly day 1, and ongoing tester and avid feedback giver. He's been our top content and community development adviser. Jacob is Canadian, so he'll drink just about anything. Hair of the dog? been there, shaved it.

Patricia Spanier

Patricia Spanier is a Sr Strategic Partner Manager and a Google EMEA veteran. Previously she worked at Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, and Amazon.com in various Business Development roles. Patricia worked at MSN in France with strategic retailers on their shopping platform, and finally with Bertelsmann (Arvato Services) managing accounts related to direct sales activities including customer support, direct marketing, logistics and outsourced IT. Patricia is Barmano's marketing and "make money now" adviser champion. Patricia likes wine and the occasional cocktail, especially Cosmopolitans and Caipirinhas.

Barmano is a web property of Neutrino Solutions, Inc.

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