our founders
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Josh Dean
Josh Dean is a journalist, author, and Campside co-founder whose first original podcast, The Clearing, was called a “new true-crime classic” by The New Yorker and “astonishing...an immense achievement” by The Guardian, and spent nearly two months at #1 on the Apple podcast charts. He co-created Campside's first show, Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, which peaked at #2 on the charts and helped solve a crime, and then made Hooked, which was nominated for Podcast of the Year by the Podcast Academy.
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Vanessa Grigoriadis
Vanessa Grigoriadis is a veteran longform journalist and a co-founder of Campside Media. She is the co-creator of the Chameleon and Fallen Angel podcasts, and hosted New York Magazine’s Tabloid series on Ivanka Trump. She is a National Magazine Award winner, and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. She is also mom to two children and two parrots.
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Adam Hoff
Adam Hoff is the founder of the production company Oil & Cattle, which focuses on adapting narrative nonfiction and has optioned over a dozen true stories to date. He is also a producer with seven projects in development (Sister, Amazon, Gran Via, Electric Somewhere) and a writer with a development deal at ABC Signature. He recently completed the original screenplay Signing Day for Columbia Pictures.
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Matthew Shaer
Matthew Shaer is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and an Emerson Collective fellow at New America. His reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s and WIRED, among other publications. He is the host and co-creator of Suspect, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by editors at New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, among other outlets.
our CEO
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Geoff Isenman
Geoff Isenman is a media executive with startup and public company experience. As an executive at The New York Times, he oversaw partnerships, M&A, and venture investing. More recently, he was Chief Business Officer at the audio company Cafe Studios (acquired by Vox Media) and Some Spider Studios, a portfolio of the leading digital-first parenting brands (acquired by BDG Media). In 2023, Isenman produced the limited podcast Big Sugar, released in partnership with Imagine Entertainment and iHeartMedia.
our team
Abukar Adan
SENIOR PRODUCER
Abukar is a producer and editor. Before joining Campside, he was an education and city government reporter at WJCT News, Northeast Florida's NPR affiliate. He's also worked as a general assignment reporter at Maine Public Radio and a digital producer in television news. Abukar was an Edit Mode inaugural fellow, where he helped edit two features and a mini-series for KALW. He was an assistant instructor of a course in audio storytelling at IFP Media Center and has contributed to NPR News, HuffPost, and Science Friday.
LAYNE Rose
SENIOR PRODUCER
Layne Rose is a podcast producer and organic, free-range Midwesterner. She has a master’s degree in sound arts and industries from Northwestern University. She’s worked on Webby award-winning podcasts, judged submissions for the Peabody Awards, and orchestrated complex office pranks at NPR's Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan
STUDIO MANAGER AND MIX ENGINEER
Yi-Wen is a recording and mixing engineer. Previously, he has had the pleasure of working on numerous musical projects with diverse independent artists in the New York music scene ranging from jazz to indie rock to new music. A graduate of the NYU Music Technology Master's Program, Yi-Wen also worked at NYU for eight years in various capacities, most recently as Technical Director of the Arts & Sciences Music Department.
As a native New Zealander, Yi-Wen is disappointingly bad at rugby and compensates for this by occasionally running to catch the subway. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, two cats, and a basement full of audio equipment.
Sabina Marra
OPERATIONS AND FINANCE MANAGER
One of those weird people who likes spreadsheets AND music, Sabina double majored in Piano Performance and Creative Writing at Hunter College before realizing that she had a knack for numbers. Since then, she’s worked in hospitality, NGOs, and most recently in healthcare as the head finance manager.
In her coveted spare time, you’ll find her sampling Manhattan’s best martinis, scuba diving in Central America, or banging out a tune with her homies. Though she’s a NJ native, she tries not to bring it up and now lives in a much cooler neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Anthony Pucillo
VICE PRESIDENT OF TELEVISION
Anthony Pucillo has worked as a television writer for AMC, HBO Max, TBS, WGN America, and Yahoo, and as a creative consultant for HBO. He has also written and produced live television for WWE, traveling the country with professional wrestlers for over a year. Anthony’s previous experience in podcasting includes co-writing and producing the first three seasons of USA Today and Wondery’s The Sneak.
Anthony grew up in the Boston area, the Toronto area, and a half-dozen other areas. He graduated from Columbia University and now lives in Los Angeles.
Shoshi Shmuluvitz
MANAGING PRODUCER / EDITOR
Shoshi Shmuluvitz writes, produces, and edits audio documentaries and narrative podcasts on anything from politics to true crime to the story of a woman who had sex with her husband’s ghost. Before joining Campside, she was a senior producer at Transmitter Media, where she produced shows including Tabloid, a Webby-nominated serialized investigation into Ivanka Trump; Imposters: The Spy, a chart-topping investigative series on Spotify; Meltdown, a look at how the disastrous mishandling of the 2008 financial crisis led to the rise of Donald Trump; and many other shows. Before that, she was the senior producer at PRI's America Abroad, a monthly public radio program on foreign policy and international affairs. Her work has been featured on Snap Judgment, Women of the Hour, Israel Story, and more.
Emma Simonoff
DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Emma Simonoff is an associate producer whose work in documentary film and love of mysteries brought her to Campside. She has previously worked as an artist’s assistant, camp counselor, shoe saleswoman and screenplay reader. Emma moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn to escape the fog, and can be found baking or collecting fun facts.
Ashley warren
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ashley Warren has worked as a development coordinator and producer for Stitcher and Best Case Studios. Before she found the world of podcasts, she worked as a stage manager in theaters from Arizona to Maine. She attended Arizona State University, where she received a B.A. in Theatre. When she’s not knitting and listening to podcasts, she’s raising her two cats in Brooklyn.