David Charles Teschendorf
President
Yggdrasil Ink, LLC

At sixty, David has spent the forty-six years of his working life, thus far, never far, from the restaurant and catering  trade, learning (and teaching) many aspects of the Art of Food and Wine and the  Business of Hospitality.

In the kitchen, he made the rounds from potwasher (and a damn good one) at fourteen, to (seemingly) endless prep, to the furnace of the line (this is where “…if you can’t stand the heat…” comes from), to sous-chef (momentarily), to expediter; to designing, costing and executing menus for both restaurants and very special private occasions.

David’s resume in the front of the house is even more extensive, from his days as a fifteen year old busboy, he progressed through the ranks: waiter, front, back and full service (from Metropol, Berkeley, CA to Windows on the World, NYC [“Start at the Top…!!!”, the ad in the New York Times said] to Le Relais de Mountain Brook, Birmingham, AL); chef de rang/service captain (Windows on the World, The Sign of the Dove, Tavern on the Green, A Dish of Salt, etc.); bartending (in Paris at the notorious Jean Paul Favand’s Les Halles bistrot, Le Tribulum); sommelier (New York’s Greene St. Cafe), maitre d’hotel (Garvin's, Greene Street and [for a few shifts] Tavern on the Green); floor manager (Hisae's, Jonelle's, Garvin's, Marco’s and the Greene St. Cafe); catering, for the Bay Area’s Narsai’s (where he worked the Bill Graham Rock & Roll Contract (serving the musicians and their guests backstage at concerts throughout Northern California) and Mark Fahrer Catering in NYC (in its early days); general manager (Cafe des Artistes in Baltimore and NYC's Jonelle’s, Garvin’s and Brasserie Bijou); and finally, as a restaurant and wine consultant, where David has contributed to Friends of Wine (Les Amis du Vin) Magazine (several cover stories), Taittinger Magazine, judged at various national wine competitions and designed the lists at many restaurants; Greene St. Cafe, Garvin's, Petrossian, Brasserie Bijou and The Soho Kitchen and Bar, NYC (which, upon opening, became the largest wine bar in the world, 110 wines by the glass, changed every month [we rarely slept]) Cafe des Artistes, Baltimoreand Le Tribulum, Paris.

As a hospitality educator, David taught a number of courses over the years in both wine appreciation and service technique. His qualifications as a service instructor are a result not only of years of management but even more directly as a result of both; his appreciation for attention to detail learned by dining at many of the world's finest restaurant's; and of having had many wonderful teachers (his first wine class, for instance, was taught by the marvelous author of The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, Kevin Zraly) Over the years, David had the pleasure to personally serve discerning diners from King Juan Carlos of Spain to Nelson Rockefeller to Moshe Dayan; from Catherine Deneuve (and Andy Warhol) to Marlon Brando (and Elton John); from Paul Bocuse to Robert Parker; from Joe Baum to Julia Child; from Pele to Jack Dempsey (dining with Claudette Colbert..!); from Jacques Cousteau to The Three Amigos (Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Steve Martin) with Lorne Michaels and Eric Idle rounding out the party…Yes, its been quite an adventure, culminating with the piece de résistance, our innovative, exciting Yggdrasil Ink, LLC project, NYC’s The Glacier’s Snout.

For additional information and personal or professional references, please feel free to contact David anytime, at: david@yggdrasilink.com or 1-917-545-5242.

Joseph Lowery
Vice-President
Yggdrasil Ink, LLC

Joseph has been a leading citizen in the online world for over twenty years. His books on the web and website building are international best-sellers and have helped train a generation of webmasters. Joe considers himself an accomplished communicator and he feels uniquely qualified to bring this project’s vision to reality.

Joe graduated from a small southern school, Furman University, in 1976 with a major in Theatre. His interest in directing lead him to New York City where he apprenticed as Assistant Director with one of the world’s leading experimental theatre creators, Richard Schechner, at the internationally renowned Performing Garage.  Joe soon joined Interaction Arts, a collective of artists, where he created and performed numerous solo works, including those in which the personal computer played an integral role. His interest in computing soon eclipsed his desire to perform on stage and by 1986 he began the New York Amiga Users Group, AMuse. The group, like the Amiga computer itself, had a brief but brilliant run which resulted in Joe forming a new company, AmiEXPO, in partnership with an events management firm. AmiEXPO held a series of extremely popular events for several years, from its debut conference with 7,000 attendees at the New York Sheraton to its first show in Germany where 35,000 attended in Köln’s Messe Center.  Joe broadened the company’s focus to cover a nascent desktop video industry, and ultimately produced a showcase for media technology, Montage 93, in Rochester, NY.

Always a writer, Joe strives to write technical material that is understandable by laymen. In 1996, he was approached to work on a revision of the HTML 3.2 Manual of Style. Joe’s books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. His most recent books are the HTML5 24-Hour Trainer, Dreamweaver CS5 Bible and Adobe CS4 Web Workflows. Joe is the author of CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible series from Wiley Publishing. He also wrote Design and Deploy Web Sites with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute 3 from Macromedia Press, in addition to co-authoring Dreamweaver 8 Recipes and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes with Eric Ott as well as the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips series with Angela Buraglia.

As a programmer, Joe contributed two extensions to releases of the graphics software Fireworks and has made many extensions available to the Dreamweaver community. He has presented at Adobe MAX numerous times over the last 15 years, as well as at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard’s Web World, and KW Media Group’s Mac Design Conference.

Joe’s interest in building a more-efficient web led him to work with WebAssist, a software developer in San Diego, CA.  After joining the company as Director of Marketing, he quickly rose to Vice-President of Marketing as sales grew from $750,000 to $3.2 million annually. In a later role as WebAssist Vice-President of Development, he oversaw the development and marketing of the company’s best-selling products.

Joe currently builds websites and online applications while continuing to help others through his books and training. He is a multi-course author in the popular online training library of Lynda.com and is just putting the finishing touches on his latest book. Joe and business partner, David Teschendorf, started Yggdrasil Ink, LLC in the spring of 2011 and have just completed the prospectus for their exciting new venture, The Glacier’s Snout.