Co-founder and CEO at MetroLeap Media Inc.
Vancouver, Canada Area
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- Co-founder and CEO at MetroLeap Media Inc.
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- VP Coatings at Integrated Paving Concepts Inc.
- Research & Development Manager at Infratech Polymers Inc.
- QA Manager at Jugoinspekt Novi Sad
- Education
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- Simon Fraser University
- Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
- Various Training and Courses
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Alan Juristovski’s Summary
Running metrolyrics.com, the largest lyrics web site and the seventh largest music web site in the world and globally (comscore data March 2009). Monthly reach to over 30 million unique visitors, with over 100 million page views a month;
High impact web sites with a continuous 3x annual traffic growth;
Reached Alexa's top 500 ranking in three years;
Interested in outsourcing and global collaboration;
Interested in high impact partnerships;
Our flagship web site www.metrolyrics.com is the first ever operational lyrics web site to convert to legalized lyrics database using Gracenote's services while ensuring that songwriters and lyrics copyright holders get compensated for their work.
One of the highest concentration of music fans on a single web site makes metrolyrics.com ideal advertising platform for brands and media buyers. Our visitors are heavy internet users that do spend money on-line and offline.
Alan Juristovski’s Specialties:
Strategy, project management, product development, outsourcing, collaboration, disruptive business models
Alan Juristovski’s Experience
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Co-founder and CEO
MetroLeap Media Inc.
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Setting corporate strategy for media company serving entertainment industry in music and video games market segments.
We are the first company that converted operational lyrics sites to a legal database, thus setting the bar for the emerging lyrics market segment. Song writers and lyrics copyright holders get compensated for every lyric displayed on our web sites.
MetroLyrics brand is among top music web sites in the United States based on number of unique visitors, closely behind MTV Music, AOL Music, Yahoo Music, Artists Direct, MySpace Music, and MSN Music.
We are always looking for strategic partners in the industry who can bring value to our end users. Don't miss +30 million monthly leads. -
VP Coatings
Integrated Paving Concepts Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Construction industry)
June 2000 — February 2008 (7 years 9 months)
Responsible for applied surfacing products R&D for asphalt substrate (roads, crosswalks, parking lots, plazas, bike/bus lanes, pathways) including waterborne coatings and preformed thermoplastics.
- very successful R&D resulting in all company's products sold being developed in the last 7 years;
- substantially improved coatings performance, for some parameters over 500% improvement;
- high value products allowed doubled selling price at improved profit margin;
- responsible for contract manufacturing QA/QC;
- almost completely reduced call backs and customers' complaints;
- excellent track record obtaining Canadian SR&ED research tax credits;
- all products developed in global collaborative environment with R&D teams from around the world;
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Research & Development Manager
Infratech Polymers Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Chemicals industry)
September 1992 — June 2000 (7 years 10 months)
Responsible for developing engineered, polymer modified asphalt for paving.
Successfully developed engineered asphalts, manufacturing processes, and mix designs for paving:
- elastomeric ASTM D3405 crack sealant;
- tire rubber crumb modified asphalt (wet McDonald process);
- EVA modified asphalt;
- SBS modified asphalt;
- Elvaloy modified asphalt;
- SBR asphalt emulsion tack coat;
- wide range of PG graded asphalts;
- high performance pothole patching material;
Presented at Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA) conference;
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QA Manager
Jugoinspekt Novi Sad
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Import and Export industry)
December 1987 — June 1992 (4 years 7 months)
Responsible for establishing and managing ISO 9000 implementation services.
Alan Juristovski’s Education
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Simon Fraser University
MBA , Business Administration , 1999 — 2001
Executive MBA program
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Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
B.A.Sc , Chemical Engineering , 1982 — 1987
Major: Process Chemical Engineering
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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
High School , Science , 1977 — 1981
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Various Training and Courses
- Easy to Clean/Self Cleaning Coatings, ECC - Berlin, 2007
- Leading Product Development, Harvard Business School (2004)
- Additive Technologies, FSCT (2004)
- Radiation Curing, CPA (2001)
- Waterborne Coatings Technology, FSCT (2001)
- Failure and Defect Analysis of Coatings, FSCT (2001)
- Superpave (1996)
- Certified Quality Auditor, ASQ (1993 - 2005)
- Approved Quality Lead Assessor Course, London, UK (1991)
- DIALOG (1990)
- The Assessment of Quality Management Systems (IQA)
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Alan Juristovski’s Interests:
research and development, innovation, open source innovation, collaboration, disruptive technologies, music, lyrics, games, video games,
Alan Juristovski’s Honors:
- Burnaby Business Excellence Awards: Winner in the category "Entrepreneurial Spirit". This award is presented to a company having demonstrated a highly entrepreneurial approach to launching a new business or new initiative within an existing business, with significant results in key business metrics. (2008)
- Winner as one of the top 50 most promising start ups in Canada by Red Herring Canada, 2008
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