Founders

Jay Ziskrout – Chief Executive Officer

• Serial entrepreneur and strategic Operations and BizDev executive.
• VP Biz Dev, PledgeMusic
• VP BizDev & Operations, Set.fm (w/ Vocinate advisor Matt Peterson, engineered acquisition by PledgeMusic)
• Founder, CharitableCheckout.com
• Chief Operating Officer, CMJ Network
• Managing Director, Epitaph Europe
• VP Promotion, Arista/BMG

Jordan Austin – Chief of Engineering

• Full-stack, revenue-focused chief engineer, architect and coder
• Extensive experience developing solutions for manufacturing and online retail businesses
  • UPS
  • LaRue Tactical
  • Sherri Hill

Mike Howe – Chief Technical Officer

• Founded several companies that developed first-of-their-kind tech including:
  • Last Mile Connection (reverse auction platform)
  • SuperArray/Qiagen (online image analysis for microarrays)
  • GlobalINI which meshed computational linguistics and probability, Bayesian inference, and natural language processing, and was sold to Carlyle Group as part of a $550 million dollar deal.
  • Founder, web application development shop, Bear-Code
  • Venture Investor

Advisors

Daren Gill

• Product Management, Spotify
• Director, Product Management, Amazon Echo & Speech@Amazon
• VP Products, Rovi
• Chief Product Officer, Veveo

Lizzy Klein

• Entrepreneur In Residence, Brand New Matter
• Founder, LK (ad)Ventures
• VP Product, GrubHub Seamless
• General Manager & SVP Interactive, ZAGAT Survey

• Leadership roles at EverydayHealth,  About.com, and StarMedia

• 8 Startups: 3 IPOs + 3 acquisitions!

Matt Dunne

• Founder, Center on Rural Innovation
• Head of Community Strategy @ LSM / MIT Media Lab
• Head of Community Affairs, Google

Matt Peterson

• Vice President of Product & Operations, Everfest
• GM PledgeMusic Austin / VP Business & Product Intelligence, PledgeMusic
• Founder & CEO, Set.fm
• SVP: Americas, Saffron Digital
• Head of Consumer Services, Samsung America
• Sr. Manager – Music Products, AT&T Mobility/Cingular