Raised in Franklin somewhere between Gillette Stadium and the Wrentham Premium Outlets mall, Jeff Wallace is a BC grad, a onetime scratch golfer, and a bartender who writes about music because he sucks at guitar and wants to feel like a rock star. Wally doesn't know how many shows he’s seen—around 700, he thinks, including Phish 14 times in one year and the Dave Matthews Band once a year with his mother. He wants to someday own his own bar. He’d call it “Wally’s” if that name hadn't already been taken by his favorite nightspot.

Courtney Megliola worked with rock stars and athletes as a publicist at the FleetCenter (or TD Banknorth Garden, or TD Garden, or whatever it's being called now), and has spent the past few years doing corporate PR, event planning, and marketing. A Boston University grad, she thinks Anna’s Taqueria has the best Mexican food in Boston, and that the Village Smokehouse in Brookline Village has the best barbecue north of the Mason Dixon Line.

T.K. Skenderian was born, educated, first employed, and had his first kiss in Boston. In that order. A BC grad, he once was a concessions vendor at Fenway selling things that no one wanted, such as Classic Coke and Yankees hats. Now communications manager for the Boston Athletic Association, he has worked as a production assistant for New England Cable News and a broadcast announcer for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. A world traveler, he once mastered an ATM in Yangshuo, China, that operated only in Mandarin. This remains the life accomplishment of which he is most proud.

One of several Natalies on the mysecretboston.com launch team, Natalie Moravek is happy to go by just her middle name of Stella, risking as she does the inevitable Streetcar Named Desire reflex. (Go ahead—you know you want to.) A Boston University graduate with a degree in journalism, Moravek loves trivia nights, is a freelance copy editor, and lives in Cambridge.