Peter Acworth
Founder/CEO
Peter grew up in Derbyshire, England, the son of a sculptor and former Jesuit priest. From a young age, Peter showed strong entrepreneurial instincts selling vegetables from the family garden and brewing homemade beer to sell to his school friends. He studied Mathematics at Cambridge University and Management at Ecole HEC, Paris. After completing his Master's degree, he worked for Baring Brothers in London for 2 years before leaving in 1997 to start a PhD in finance at Columbia Business School in New York City. At the end of his first year, he was inspired by a newspaper article about a fireman who had made half a million pounds selling adult content on the Internet. Seeing an opportunity to combine his lifelong interest in bondage with his nose for business, Peter launched his first website, Hogtied.com, which he ran from the confines of his dorm room for the subsequent year. In 1998, Peter decided to leave the PhD program and move to San Francisco to found Cybernet Entertainment, LLC, which over the next decade grew into the thriving conglomerate of kinky BDSM and fetish websites that are now known as ‘Kink.com.’ While Peter stepped down as Hogtied.com’s director in the Fall of 2003, he remained deeply involved in the day to day operations of the company, the development of new sites, and the evolution of a supportive and sustainable kinky community. Acworth not only helped San Francisco’s Society of Janus establish their BDSM community resource center, the Citadel, but he also offered up Kink.com’s former production studio, the ‘Porn Palace,’ as a location for parties and fundraisers that benefit local Fetish and BDSM organizations. In late 2006 Acworth’s Armory Studios purchased the San Francisco Armory and began to develop the historic landmark as a corporate office and production studio for Kink.com. Peter continues to be involved in the local community as an advocate for the rights of sexual minorities, a responsible neighbor and business owner and as an emblem of a kinky revolution.

Daniel Riedel
COO
Before coming to Kink.com in 2007, Daniel worked for Yahoo as a Senior Manager in Business Technology. Prior to that, Daniel provided consulting services to companies such as AT&T, Disney and Silicon Graphics through his own company, Riedel Enterprises. He has assisted startups in a number of roles from advisory to consulting and worked with them to develop their technology plan. Daniel has a broad range of experience from managing enterprise global datacenters, building out analysis tools for Fortune 500 companies, and leading a multitude of large-scale technology initiatives. He brings a total of fifteen years of management experience to his role as COO.

Stacia Carr
Director of Technology
Kink.com Director of Technology Stacia Carr comes to the company with more than 15 years experience in technology and entertainment. After graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Stacia worked with legendary hip-hop and pop hit-maker Jive Records and produced concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall. She later worked for such companies as Lexy, Sony, MusicBank and RealNetworks’ Rhapsody, and served as the Information Technology Director at the College Music Journal. Stacia came to Kink.com as an IT Project Manager in February, 2008 and was promoted to Director of Technology only 7 months later.

Vince Gamboa
Director of Human Resources
Prior to joining Kink.com in April of 2007, Vince worked as a Senior HR Manager for Premier Retail Networks, Inc. and HR Associate for Eve.com. Vince began his career in Human Resources as a staffing specialist for ProServ staffing firm in 1994. Since joining Armory studios, Vince has coordinated sexual harrassment training, restructured the company's benefits package, and continues to build a high functioning and trusted Human Resources department within the organization. Vince graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors degree in Cinema (emphasis on Screenwriting).

Chi Lieu
Manager, Accounting and Finance
Prior to joining Kink.com, Chi was a consultant for several large companies like Deloitte & Touche, T-Mobile, Western Wireless, and Waste Management. In addition, Chi has held key positions with Luxe Jewels, Verdiem Corporation, and CMI Worldwide. In the last two plus years, Chi played a vital role at Magellan. Chi Lieu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He is fluent in Chinese and Vietnamese.