Stephen Ready
Co-Founder, CEO
Stephen sets Inspired’s long-term vision and is usually thinking a few moves ahead. A lifelong entrepreneur with decades of experience building and scaling businesses, he’s always pushing the team to imagine what Inspired can become. Stephen focuses on platform evolution and market expansion while keeping the company grounded in delivering real, tangible value as it grows.
Dick Hillenbrand
Co-Founder, Chairman
Dick brings perspective, encouragement, and long-term thinking to Inspired. With a background spanning entrepreneurship and philanthropy, he’s an active partner in governance and big-picture direction. Dick contributes a steady point of view that helps shape important decisions while keeping Inspired focused on building something that lasts.
Ginger Dixon
Co-Founder, COO, Head of Partner Success
Ginger is the director of traffic behind Inspired, keeping teams, partners, and priorities moving smoothly in the right direction. She oversees operations and partner success, keeps a close eye on compliance, and makes sure things don’t get stuck or overlooked as the company scales. With over two decades of experience in operations and customer success, Ginger brings structure, clarity, and steady momentum to everything the team builds.
Jeff Trudeau
Co-Founder, CTO
Jeff leads Inspired’s technology and infrastructure and has a rare ability to think through technical challenges from multiple angles at once. With deep experience building enterprise platforms and e-commerce systems, he sets the direction for how Inspired’s platform is designed and evolves. Jeff focuses on building systems that are reliable, flexible, and ready for what’s next.
Paul Griffiths
Lead Systems Engineer
Paul is a deeply creative technical thinker with a knack for solving problems others get stuck on. He leads much of Inspired’s core system design and technical architecture, working across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and emerging AI technologies as the platform evolves. Paul brings both imagination and precision to his work, helping the platform scale cleanly even as things get complex.
Josh Hemsley
Chief Experience Officer
Josh shapes how Inspired looks, feels, and functions across product, brand, and partner touchpoints. He’s a creative thinker with a talent for simplifying complex ideas and streamlining how things come together. At Inspired, Josh works closely with product, operations, and leadership to make sure the experience feels clear, intentional, and easy to use.
Molly Trerotola
Head of Charity Partnerships
Molly leads Inspired’s charity partnerships with a clear sense of what needs to happen and how to make it happen well. She brings years of experience working directly with nonprofit leaders and is a steady advocate for charity partners across everything Inspired builds. Molly has a strong instinct for navigating complexity, keeping partners front and center, and ensuring programs are structured in ways that truly support awareness, alignment, and long-term impact.
Ben Astin
Head of Partnerships
Ben leads Inspired’s partnerships across brands, platforms, and agencies. If someone’s doing interesting work in technology or e-commerce, chances are Ben knows them—or will soon. He brings a relationship-first approach to everything he does, connecting people and ideas in ways that help Inspired grow through collaborations that actually work.
Dzenita Cifric
Senior Product Manager
Dzenita drives product roadmap execution at Inspired with a methodical, organized approach shaped by experience across enterprise platforms and e-commerce ecosystems. She’s often thinking a step ahead, helping frame ideas early and putting structure around them so the team has something concrete to react to. Dzenita brings clarity to complex work and helps keep product efforts moving forward with focus and intention.
Tyler Pearson
Senior Software Engineer
Tyler is the kind of engineer who jumps in when something needs to get done. He focuses on front-end development while supporting backend systems across Inspired’s platform, moving quickly without cutting corners that cause problems later. With five years in the U.S. Navy and close to a decade as a senior software engineer, Tyler brings a steady, reliability-first mindset to building software that holds up in the real world.
