With stylish designs, integrated print, social networking features, customizable event web page and easy to use tools,
pingg is changing the way hosts create and plan their events on the web. Browse hundreds of
free designs or apply our upgrade package pingg Plus to any pingg invite or
ecard you create. We bring style, functionality and personality to all of the events you plan.
The Designer Community
We’ve connected with a worldwide community of amazing artists, designers,
charities and brands to bring hosts unique designs for their personal and
professional events. In return, artists have another medium in which to share
their art with hosts and their guests, and spread their work to thousands of eager party-goers.
Also, when you select an invitation or eCard design from one of our pingg Plus Designers,
you are helping to support the talent behind the design. It's all about spreading the love...and the art!
Learn more about the designers on pingg »
Send via Inboxes, Mailboxes and Social Networks
pingg is the only online site that mails postmarked versions of your online pinggs
and still lets you collect RSVPs and manage your event online.
With pingg, you don't have to choose between sending your invitations & announcements
via email, postal mail, text message or social networks, they all live together at pingg.
Learn more about Postal pingg »
The pingg Team
At pingg we try to provide you with an easy and fun user experience.
We are always looking to better our product so feel free to send us
any comments, thoughts, gossip or questions.
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Lorien Gabel
(Co-Founder, CEO
@lorientree
)
Lorien is an entrepreneur and lawyer who was born in Malaysia while his dad was curing tropical diseases with
the Peace Corps. Off to a cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego, India…before
settling into the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada.
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In 1994, at the age of 24, when Lorien's younger brother Matt asked him to run his bourgeoning internet
company, Lorien did what any self-respecting lawyer of 6 months would do -- he quit. He moved the company
from their parent's basement and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada's
first commercial ISP's, to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and annualized revenue exceeding $12M. The
company was then acquired by a large multinational telecommunications provider. Determined not to be one hit
wonders, Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks - a managed web hosting and
data-center provider which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was
acquired by AT&T Canada.
In 2003, Lorien moved to New York City. When not snowboarding or surfing, Lorien has been known to run
divisions of Fortune 500 companies (Micron), spearhead the exponential U.S. growth of a UK based tech
company (MessageLabs) as Global VP, Business Development, serve on the advisory board of a number of
start-ups (including Canada Web Hosting) and whip up a mean breakfast of Spanish eggs.
Lorien has a LLB from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario
Bar. He resides in NYC where he can be seen running along the west side highway listening to the latest DJ
mix or a CBC Canada political podcast.
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Matt Harrop
(Co-Founder, CTO)
Matt is an entrepreneur who was born on a mountaintop, near a town called Rock Creek, somewhere in British
Columbia, Canada. For the first five years, his family did not have running water or electricity. Thankfully
his parents decided to return to civilization and relocated to the thriving metropolis of Toronto.
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In 1993, at the wise age of 18, Matt dropped out of high school to start his first internet company,
Interlog, in the basement of his parent's house. The kicker…it actually worked, growing to 150
employees and 65,000 consumers before it was acquired by PSINet a publicly traded multinational ISP. So did
his second company, Bird on a Wire Networks that he co-founded with his brother Lorien. It was acquired by
AT&T Canada. Matt, Chief Technology Officer of both companies, as well as pingg, is your prototypical
self-taught technology whiz.
Fresh from his successes on the information superhighway, Matt set forth to conquer the elements, water and
air. He dyed his hair blue, trained for a pilots license, built an ultra light aircraft, joined the crew of
Challenge Team Spirit, a 72-foot cutter, in a trans Atlantic yacht race and then spent three years sailing
across the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans with his then girlfriend (and now wife) Melissa.
Matt is sometimes affectionately referred to as “Matt-apedia” because he seems to know
everything from strange ingredients in toothpaste, to how to fix a diesel engine, to the philosophy of
Kierkegaard. He currently lives in Toronto where pingg's development office is located.
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Have a way to make pingg better? Let us know!
At pingg we try to provide you with an easy and fun user experience.
We are always looking to better our product so feel free to send us
any comments, thoughts, gossip or questions.
Contact us »
