Some of the people you will see online include Fred Gitleman, Sheri Weinstock and Uday Ivatury, the original owners and programmers.
As growth continued, others joined the company. You will find Gerardo and Georgi added to our technical, programming staff, Rain, handling advertising and marketing, Desi, Babela and Aramesh, the Customer Support crew, Diana, handling tech support, Karen taking care of accounting and helping out in Customer Support, and Jacki coordinating the ACBL program and managing Customer Support.
The ownership of BridgeBase expanded in the summer of 2007 to include bridge enthusiasts Bill Gates, David Smith and Sharon Osberg.
But in addition to our behind the scenes people, players from all over the world gather on BridgeBase 24 hours a day to play with each other, regardless of language barriers. Since bidding and the play of the cards is done by mouse-clicks, language isn't required. And our world-wide players bring with them a multitude of systems including SEF, Acol, SAYC, Precision, Polish Club and other diverse bidding and playing agreements. A SAYC player can find himself playing against a pair playing Acol and enjoying it.
This is what makes BridgeBase what it is. People from the four corners of the world meeting on our bridge site and playing the game they love with each other. And if we don't understand each other's native language, it's not important. We communicate by clicking on the 15 words which are all that's needed for the game of bridge.