Meet The Team
Elizabeth Cloyd
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Elizabeth lives in Brooklyn, NY and joined TeePublic to pursue her goal of helping independent creators, and currently works as its Director of Strategic Partnerships. Elizabeth has been with the company for 6 years and started its podcast program about 3 years ago. TeePublic currently supports merch stores for over 600 podcasts. Elizabeth is currently listening to any podcast covering Bravo reality TV or Pop-Culture.
Paula Columbu
Account Manager
Paula joined TeePublic's affiliate team in July 2019, and her role is to help affiliates get the best out of their store performance and provide all the info for converting merch stores into great engagement tools.
Her biggest passions include drawing webcomics, cooking breakfasts, running, and minimalist fashion.
Gerry Tobin
Account Manager
A pure shooter with a mean skyhook, a hustler with a heart of gold, a sentient being who has one ear to the ground and another to a podcast, Gerry is many things but above all else an Account Manager who aims to find new ways of helping Content Creators vibe with their audience. Outside of work, Gerry is forever scrolling through Twitter obsessing over sports, politics, conspiracy theories, and Brutalist architecture.
Raluca Popa
Affiliate Outreach
Raluca started working for Teepublic in 2018 and is now an outreach manager. She lives in Transylvania, Romania, the land of Dracula –– and, during day time, she reaches out to awesome podcasts (like yours!) and helps them set up their merch stores on Teepublic. When she’s not crazy about processes, she is watching sitcoms, eating snacks or shopping for the latest local, eco, bio, fair trade, artsy products around.
Elliott Walker
Affiliate Outreach
Elliott recently joined TeePublic as part of our affiliate partner outreach team. An avid podcast listener, she enjoys true crime, food and entrepreneurial shows but is always on the hunt for new shows to listen to! Outside of work Elliott loves to cook (she's a self proclaimed bacon-pescatarian), hike and needlepoint.
Samantha Lifson
Affiliate Outreach and Onboarding
Samantha joined TeePublic right out of college in 2016. As a lover of fandom, and the founder of her own fan community, helping support other community creators is her favorite part of being on the affiliate team. Away form work, Samantha loves writing, engaging in media discourse, Japanese alternative fashion, and collects cute things on the regular.
Christopher Downes
Director of Partner Design
Chris has worked for TeePublic since 2015, originally hired as an illustrator for BustedTees! He has built the Affiliate Design program from the ground up to give affiliates the creative assets they need to fully engage their fanbases. Outside of work, Chris is an avid gamer, can quote seasons 1-10 of the Simpsons from beginning to end, and enjoys watching his small dog destroy her toys.