About Ginger Labs

Ginger Labs develops software applications to improve daily life. Our first app improves hearing - soundAMP converts Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch into advanced hearing devices. The second app improves learning abilities and converts Apple’s iPad into an advanced note taking and learning device. The apps are available worldwide via the iTunes App Store. Ginger Labs was founded in 2008. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

The Team

Ryder S Booth Creative Director
Ryder has worked in the Design - User experience - Web Graphics field for 12 years with a variety of startups and non-profit organizations. He has a BS in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. When not designing, he is outside, or inside making art.

Ryan Cassidy CTO
Ryan holds the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he focussed on auditory signal processing to improve impaired listening experiences at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and Department of Otolaryngology.  Prior to graduate study, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (with honours) at the University of Calgary.  During his studies, he honed his signal processing skills working for various media technology companies, and is the author of numerous publications in this area.  His current research focuses on human-centered technology for assistive and interactive applications.

Holmes Futrell Software Engineer
Holmes is a recent university graduate and an experienced iPhone and Mac OS X developer. Holmes graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2008 with a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematical Sciences, and since then he has pursued several projects which include web development, and independent game development for iPhone. Holmes is currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Colin Gilboy Lead Software Engineer / Audio DSP Engineer
Colin recently completed a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where he focused on audio signal processing at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Before that, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Columbia University. During his time at Stanford he worked as an intern on the audio codec team at Apple, Inc. where he helped improved the quality of their AAC encoder. He also enjoys listening to and playing music. Three years after moving from New York to California to attend Stanford, Colin has decided that he does not miss winter.

Fred Mitchell Founder & CEO
Fred was raised in Palo Alto, CA. He spent 10 years on the East coast earning his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, and returned home in 1980. He has enjoyed stints with Union Camp, Atari, Gavilan Computer, Great Plains Software, and then 20 years with Adobe Systems where as employee #58 he helped start the software business, and later, Adobe’s venture development program. He is still raising his family with his wife of 26 years and has 4 children, 1 recently graduated from college, and 3 are in college.

Advisors

Max Mathews
Max is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). He has been supportive and influential in the design of soundAMP.

Fifty-two years ago, in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Mathews demonstrated that the digital computer can be used as a fantastic new music instrument. He created a revolutionary software platform destined to form the basis of all contemporary digital musical systems (Music 1–Music 5).

Known as the “Father of Computer Music”, his audacious ideas were driven by the belief that “any sound that the human ear can hear can be produced by a computer”. Mathews’s mastery of this new instrument revealed new musical horizons and sparked a burgeoning curiosity into the very nature of sound. His comprehension and elaboration made five decades of art and research possible, laying the groundwork for generations of electronic musicians to synthesize, record, and play music.

Today, Max uses a hearing aid on occasion, but does not speak favorably of them.

Joe Ternasky
Joe is an entrepreneur and a computer scientist and has been an advisor to Ginger Labs since October 2008. Meeting with Joe regularly at my other office, Peet's Coffee, Joe helped design soundAMP. Joe is currently employed by Google, where he is working on the "Google Apps for Your Domain" service and the Google Search Appliance. Prior, Joe was with Adobe Systems, WebTV and Apple. Joe has a BS computer science degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.