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Company Name: Buzzd Corporate Site: http://www.buzzd.com Updated: 2010-03-09 09:12:23 PST |
Buzzd removes Kevin Bradshaw, COO and Jason Pelzer, VP of Engineering
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Kevin BradshawMehta
Jason Pelzer
Kevin Bradshaw COO
Kevin has more than a decade of experience with start-up and high-growth ventures in digital media and technology; including i-play (Digital Bridges), PlayPhone, LimeWire, Blaze Media, Slam Games, buzzd and zendit.
He has built a number of companies at the leading edge of innovation in the digital media sector, raising more than $100M of venture capital across the various ventures. He has played a key role in management teams which have consistently delivered market-dominating results in rapidly fluctuating commercial and organizational circumstances.
His companies have pioneered the development of a number of ground- breaking content delivery platforms, and have lead the creation of original and new format entertainment for some of the world's most successful IP franchises. team
Jason Pelzer VP of Engineering
Prior to joining buzzd in January 2010 as VP of Engineering, Jason ran the engineering group at Lime Wire LLC, publisher of the popular P2P file sharing client. During his time there, LimeWire was downloaded approximately 300 million times and serviced about 34 billion queries. Jason learned the music industry ropes at Sony BMG Music helping the company transition to the digital age, including Sony's appearance on the iTunes Music Store. Before his tenure at Sony, Jason did his time in the trenches, building interactive sites such as Qwest.com, Ice.com, AudiUSA.com, MistubishiCars.com, LensCrafters.com, PCH.com (Publishers Clearing House), and others.
Jason was also active in the development of artificially intelligent players for the id Software games 'Quake' and 'Quake II', as well as being a sponsored death-match gamer back in the day when it didn't pay to play. team
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Kevin Bradshaw Nihal Mehta Metha
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Glen Nigel Straub
Grisel Gamboa
Michael Muse
Oluwole Owoseni
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Nihal Mehta
CEO / Co-Founder
Innovating marketing technologies through three successful startups to date, Nihal Mehta, is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of wireless technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's Top 20 Marketers in Their Twenties in 2005, Nihal is currently CEO and co-founder of mobile social networking buzzd. Prior to buzzd, Nihal co-founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which was sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science.
In his spare time, Nihal enjoys deejaying around the country and practicing jedi mind tricks on unsuspecting victims. team
Deepen Shah CTO / Co-Founder
Deepen Shah is our resident technology scientist. He spent his early days within the hacking and computer security community, gaining experience with many development languages and open source architectures. While a college student at New York University, Deepen built an application that text messaged him when a class became available during course registration to get into the classes he really wanted to take. Following this feat, he became interested in expanding this concept of alerts and his first successful venture, eztxtmsg became a reality.
Acquired by ipsh! in 2003, eZtext became one of the first ever mobile self-service applications that allowed small to medium sized businesses to send out text message alerts containing product sales, patient reminders, dj / club promotions, and more. With the backing of a major marketing agency, eztxtmsg grew from a few hundred businesses to thousands in a matter of months. At eztxtmsg, Deepen managed technology teams over-seas and pushed agile Web 2.0 development with platforms such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Django.
Having recently graduated from the Stern School of Business at NYU in Information Systems and Finance, he looks towards the future in combining his experience in mobile, business, and technology to create the first truly sticky social platform on the mobile phone.
Deepen's other talents include beatboxing, playing the tenor sax, and chugging Red Bull. team
Kevin Bradshaw COO Glen Nigel Straub Marketing Manager
Kevin has more than a decade of experience with start-up and high-growth ventures in digital media and technology; including i-play (Digital Bridges), PlayPhone, LimeWire, Blaze Media, Slam Games, buzzd and zendit.
He has built a number of companies at the leading edge of innovation in the digital media sector, raising more than $100M of venture capital across the various ventures. He has played a key role in management teams which have consistently delivered market-dominating results in rapidly fluctuating commercial and organizational circumstances.
His companies have pioneered the development of a number of ground- breaking content delivery platforms, and have lead the creation of original and new format entertainment for some of the world's most successful IP franchises. team
Jason Pelzer VP of Engineering
Prior to joining buzzd in January 2010 as VP of Engineering, Jason ran the engineering group at Lime Wire LLC, publisher of the popular P2P file sharing client. During his time there, LimeWire was downloaded approximately 300 million times and serviced about 34 billion queries. Jason learned the music industry ropes at Sony BMG Music helping the company transition to the digital age, including Sony's appearance on the iTunes Music Store. Before his tenure at Sony, Jason did his time in the trenches, building interactive sites such as Qwest.com, Ice.com, AudiUSA.com, MistubishiCars.com, LensCrafters.com, PCH.com (Publishers Clearing House), and others.
Jason was also active in the development of artificially intelligent players for the id Software games 'Quake' and 'Quake II', as well as being a sponsored death-match gamer back in the day when it didn't pay to play. team
We like to consider Glen our Marketing Rockstar. Born and bred in Brooklyn, he thrives on the energy of the concrete jungle. He joined us with a zest for urban culture, words, live music, and most importantly giving people cool free stuff if they use buzzd, of course.
Glen has worked for Conde Nast Publications and has contributed nightlife-related articles to Spin, Metromix and Sheckys. He's passionate about the dreadful New York Knickerbockers (in 7th grade, he shaved "Knicks" into his hair) and can also tell you the ins and outs of the paw-shaped mittens business.
His skills include: nigelsounds, an encyclopedic knowledge of reggae and bringin' more fyah (fire).
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Grisel Gamboa Product Manager Manager, Operations
Grisel Gamboa, product manager, our Manager of Operatios, has a knack for keeping our development team in line when they're misbehaving. A product of Chicago, Grisel joins the team after working for Nickelodeon Kids & Family online department where she produced social networking applications like rich media message boards and advanced, multi-trait member search for matching like-minded parents. Passionate about product managing, Grisel has experience with agile software development and thinks it works great only if your brain is agile.
She loves to keep the buzzd staff well fed by baking delicious desserts. team
Michael Muse Manager, Business Development
Michael handles our Business Developement and Ad Operations at buzzd, as well as Project Managing the BlackBerry application. His love affair with 'Berries dates back to his first RIM 857 in 2001. From his background in Finance, he brings a knack for numbers and data, as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of the Microsoft Office Productivity suite (nerd!). He wears many hats at buzzd, and is an active member of the New York Tech community.
Hailing from Dallas, Texas, he loves skiing the slopes in his vacation time. team
Oluwole Owoseni Quality Assurance, Release and Operations Manager
Meet Oluwole Owoseni, our Quality Assurance, Release and Operations Manager, our youngest addition to the buzzd staff. Olu's job is to ensure your experience with buzzd is as bug free as possible. He is also in charge of the completion, release and ongoing operations of all of the buzzd consumer products. As our senior consultant on bugs, Olu brings 4+ years of programming knowledge and problem-solving to the table. On any given day, he can be found pouring over the system finding new ways to break (and fix) our various products.
Olu is also the official buzzd chessmaster, ping pong player and chief chocolate cookie expert. team
Brian McConnell UX
Brian McConnell has been refining the online experience since spinning logos and welcome pages were the standard. He's honed his acumen for connecting people and information by creating successful social engagement programs for interactive agencies Edelman Digital and his own Kageki media, founding the nightlife community Rhythmism.com, and creating consumer applications for MotionBox and RichFX.
Outside buzzd Brian can be found underwater exploring reefs & wrecks, at a techno warehouse party, volunteering at the neighborhood CSA, or cursing the Mets dreadful defense. team
Melissa Mandelbaum Community Manager
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