Great stories deserve great distribution

Jarom Sidwell has spent his career helping great stories find the people they're meant to reach. His journey has taken him across publishing, Hollywood, and technology, but the mission has always been the same: connect creators with audiences.

As a marketing leader in the publishing industry, Jarom helped launch a debut title into Amazon’s Top 50 during its release and contributed to more than 10,000 book sales in its first year. He also partnered with authors to create and present interactive school assemblies and live events, inspiring students to discover new books while helping authors expand their readership.

Before founding Story Metro, Jarom worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest productions, including Avatar, The Hobbit, The Avengers, Man of Steel, and The Adventures of Tintin. He later led product, marketing, and technology teams that built digital products used by hundreds of thousands of people. Across every role, one idea kept surfacing: great stories deserve great distribution. That conviction became Story Metro.

When he’s not building Story Metro, Jarom enjoys reading history, exploring emerging technology, and spending time with his wife and children. He believes stories have the power not only to entertain, but to shape character, strengthen families, and change lives.

Greg Mascherino has spent more than twenty years building software, and the teams behind it. From programming control systems early in his career to leading engineering teams at Rubicon Project — a global adtech platform handling trillions of transactions a month — a visual effects studio, and FamilySearch, the world’s largest genealogy organization, he has built big, reliable systems that people count on every day.

Greg cares about people as much as he cares about code. For years he has taught and mentored engineers, as a certified instructor at CEDIA and an adjunct instructor at Weber State University. As he likes to put it, he builds people the same way he builds software.

Today, Greg’s focus is Story Metro, where he is the technical co-founder and the builder behind the platform. For him, it’s personal. He kept watching his wife start a book on a great recommendation, only to hit a scene a few chapters in that made her put it down for good. He believes readers shouldn’t have to gamble on what’s inside a book, and that families should be able to find stories they can trust.

When he’s not building something, you’ll find Greg with his five kids or buried in a good book — usually science fiction, fantasy, or a romantic comedy.

Emma Faye is an Audie-nominated and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer of over 200 books, known for her passion for clean, wholesome storytelling. She specializes in narrating clean and sweet romance, Christian non-fiction, YA fantasy, and middle-grade adventures.

A strong advocate for clean media, Emma believes what we consume matters deeply. She founded a small audiobook production company, Cats Meow Productions, which also produces clean reads, and she loves helping authors on their audiobook journey.

When she’s not in the booth, you’ll find her on stage, baking cookies, or snuggling her many cats. She loves Story Metro’s mission of bringing like-minded readers and authors together around books they don’t have to skip scenes in or set down over content.