I'm Wade Minter, and I live at the intersection of technology, sports, and performance. By day, I'm founder and COO of Suggestion Ox, an anonymous employee feedback platform used by more than 450 organizations across six continents — built and run profitably with my co-founder Andrew Berkowitz, who I've been building companies with for 25 years, going back to TeamSnap. I'm also a limited partner in the Triangle Tweener Fund. By night, I'm the Public Address Announcer for the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, 2026 Stanley Cup champions, and a longtime improv comedian.
The common thread is communication — whether I'm helping a team ship better software, getting 18,000 hockey fans on their feet, or teaching a room full of introverts to think on their feet through improv. I care about building things that connect people, and I'm drawn to problems where technology meets the real world.
I'm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William & Mary, and I'm active in the Bluesky/ATProto community, where I build bots, feeds, and tools for the open social web.
Did You Know?
Here's some stuff about me that you might not know:
- I picked up playing ice hockey as a defenseman in my late 20s, and started playing goalie when I turned 40
- I interviewed Jon Stewart for my college newspaper (shortly before he joined The Daily Show)
- I ran into "Weird Al" Yankovic in a souvenir store in Edinburgh, Scotland
- I have traveled to Canada, The Netherlands, England, Scotland, France, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Belarus
- I have performed improv professionally in: Raleigh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Washington DC, and Richmond, among other places
- I build and maintain Mx. Voice, free open-source audio software that has powered sound for improv theaters since 2000
- I am an advisor for Momentum Learning in Durham, and have hired several Momentum graduates
- I was manager / artistic director of ComedySportz San Antonio for two years
- I have held advisory positions at iSport360, Learn Platform, Betaversity, and Epifany — where I also served as a board observer
- I am not on Facebook or Twitter
- I have a goalie mask painted in a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy theme
- I take my family Christmas card photo every year in a different hockey jersey
- I produced an improv festival that featured future Saturday Night Live star Vanessa Bayer
- I have performed improv on the home court of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs
- While in college, I performed in the shadow cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- I was not the inspiration for the Ben & Jerry's flavor "Minter Wonderland", but I should have been
- My Github User ID is #955
- I used to write reviews of WCW wrestling shows for DDT Digest