Meet the Webpub Team

Ben Welch-Bolen – Founder
I've been active in the hosting industry for 12+ years and I have a strong background in the security needs of that industry. I wanted to create WebPub to provide the online community a more secure model for upgrading web applications, themes, and plugins. We want to make it easier to create a website and keep it up to date, and have spent the last year building the underlying technology that makes this possible.

For my day job I'm the CEO and co-owner of the Site5 Hosting Group. We have 68 employees all working remotely around the world and over 40,000 customers. We have a lot of experience with web applications and I've been using WordPress and other scripts to build websites for a very long time.

Joel Brown – Founder
While working on my undergrad degree in mathematics, I developed a general interest in computing and programming. Since I knew I didn't want to stay in academics, it seemed natural to combine my programming skills and my love of the internet. I've been designing and developing web applications for over nine years now.

For the last six years, those development projects have been in the hosting industry. As President and co-owner over at Site5 I help oversee many of our in house development projects and do most of the coding on our custom scheduling software and support desk. Here at WebPub, I'm responsible for managing the development process and coding the front-end user interface.

Jesse
I came, I saw, I hacked. As an outdoorsman with an knack for solving problems simply, I have been a CCNA, system admin, programmer and IT generalist for over a decade. Perl is my IT survival knife, everything else is extra.

Karl
I have been coding for 5+ years and got my start on Programmable Logic Controller in C++. I moved into the web development field and I've steadily broadened my skill set. The years I spent developing programs to efficiently run large machine processing have really helped me to better understand complex object oriented web applications. Since joining the WebPub Team I have worked primarily on the administration sections of the website