Josh Billigmeier

Josh Billigmeier is the CEO and co-founder of Fireside and has been with the company since it was just a crazy idea with his co-founder Jeff Mascott. He co-founded Fireside on evenings and weekends by building a content management system for Press Secretaries. In those days, you had to be a webmaster with knowledge of FTP and Frontpage or Dreamweaver to publish websites, but the Fireside Web platform helped busy hill staffers quickly get press releases, photos, and files published to their website without any webmaster expertise. Before founding Fireside, Josh worked at several telecommunications and software testing startups. After transitioning to focus on Fireside full-time, Josh coded the first versions of Newsletter and CRM. He then took on the role of Head of Product Development and began building and leading a strong development team. After serving as the Head of Product Development, he transitioned into the CEO role in 2018. Josh lives in Silver Spring with his wife Joanna and his four children: Mackenzie, Jackson, Paisley, and Finn. In his spare time, he enjoys retro gaming, electronics projects, a smattering of Python programming, and sports. Fun fact: Josh is banned from Full Caff coffee by the Fireside Team.