Company Name: Buzzd Corporate Site: http://www.buzzd.com Updated: 2010-07-01 09:15:45 PST

Buzzd adds Jason Pelzer, VP of Engineering

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Polly Lieberman
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top | top | top | Polly Lieberman Business Development and Sales Polly started her career media when Double Click was part of Poppy Tyson, Alta Vista was everyone's default search engine, AOL "get online now" CDs came with every magazine, consumers were hoping to upgrade to a 56k modem. She remembers when the term dot-com became popular, watched a generation of slackers mourn the popping of a bubble they forgot to invest in, and yet she prevailed. She has poured so much energy into building digital properties and evangelizing revolutionary advertising programs, that a popular game in new media circles is known as "Six Degrees of Polly Lieberman." Since 2003, she has been mobile space at Rip Road, Juice Wireless, Kikucall. During the boom years, Polly worked at MetLife.com, ClubMom.com and Bolt.com.

Polly has a repertoire of fashion accessories that would put Imelda Marcos to shame and her skills include: mogul skiing, digital bantering, and kicking a 120+ MPH serve out wide. top | team

Drew Meeks Director of Product Experience

Drew Meeks, Director of Product Experience, brings 12+ years of cutting-edge user experience design and deep product management expertise in the fields of computer gaming, web application development, mobile social networking, and user generated content. A veteran of world-class interactive agencies, such as OgilvyInteractive, successful high-tech startups such as Red Hat, Inc. and Juice Wireless, Inc., Drew provides critical insights on user behavior which inform buzzd's ongoing growth and evolution. top | top | top | Developement and Ad Operations Associate top | Assurance Engineer Assurance Engineer newest official top | top | top |

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About Kevin Bradshaw
Jason Pelzer
Jason Pelzer of Engineering Prior to joining buzzd 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 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), others. Jason was also active development of artificially intelligent players for the id Software games 'Quake' 'Quake II', being a sponsored death-match gamer back in the day when it didn't pay to play. Manager, Development Assurance, Release and Operations Manager Assurance, Release Operations Manager, our youngest He is also in charge of the completion, release and ongoing operations of all of the buzzd consumer products. official

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The Buzzd Team

Kevin Bradshaw
Nihal Mehta
Deepen Shah
Kevin Bradshaw
Polly Lieberman Jason Pelzer

Drew Meeks
Glen Nigel Straub
Grisel Gamboa
Michael Muse

Oluwole Owoseni

Brian McConnell
Melissa Mandelbaum

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. top | 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. top | team

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. top | team

Polly Lieberman Jason Pelzer VP Business Development and Sales of Engineering

Polly started her career 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 media when Double Click was part of Poppy Tyson, Alta Vista was everyone's default search engine, AOL "get online now" CDs came with every magazine, 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 consumers were hoping to upgrade to a 56k modem. She remembers when the term dot-com became popular, watched a generation of slackers mourn the popping of a bubble they forgot to invest in, and yet she prevailed. others.

She has poured so much energy into building digital properties and evangelizing revolutionary advertising programs, that a popular game in new media circles is known as "Six Degrees of Polly Lieberman." Since 2003, she has been Jason was also active in the mobile space at Rip Road, Juice Wireless, development of artificially intelligent players for the id Software games 'Quake' and Kikucall. During the boom years, Polly worked at MetLife.com, ClubMom.com and Bolt.com.

Polly has a repertoire of fashion accessories that would put Imelda Marcos to shame and her skills include: mogul skiing, digital bantering, and kicking a 120+ MPH serve out wide. top | team

Drew Meeks Director of Product Experience

Drew Meeks, Director of Product Experience, brings 12+ years of cutting-edge user experience design and deep product management expertise in the fields of computer gaming, web application development, mobile social networking, and user generated content. A veteran of world-class interactive agencies, such as OgilvyInteractive, 'Quake II', as well as successful high-tech startups such as Red Hat, Inc. and Juice Wireless, Inc., Drew provides critical insights on user behavior which inform buzzd's ongoing growth and evolution. being a sponsored death-match gamer back in the day when it didn't pay to play. top | team

Glen Nigel Straub Marketing Manager

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

Grisel Gamboa, product manager, 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. top | team

Michael Muse Manager, Business Developement and Ad Operations Associate 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. top | team

Oluwole Owoseni Quality Assurance Engineer Assurance, Release and Operations Manager

Meet Oluwole Owoseni, our Quality Assurance Engineer Assurance, Release and newest 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, official ping pong player and chief chocolate cookie expert. top | 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. top | team

Melissa Mandelbaum Community Manager

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