Ashkan Karbasfrooshan froosh@gmail.com

Current

CEO at WatchMojo.com

Past

Sales Manager at IGN Entertainment
VP Sales, Writer, Spokesperson, Interviewer at AskMen.com - a unit of IGN, Fox Interactive Media / News Corp.
Mgr, Investor Relations at Mamma.com

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Education

Concordia University

Connections

479 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan froosh@gmail.com’s Summary

CEO, Mojo Supreme - 2006-present
Founded company with operations in video (WatchMojo.com), search (MetaMojo.com), blogs (BloggerMojo.com) and database marketing
(StreetMojo.com).

Lead writer on popular industry blog HipMojo.com

VP of Ad Sales, AskMen.com - 2000-05
Generated $10M of Sales from major ad agencies and F500 advertisers.
Company acquired by IGN Entertainment, today a part of News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media.

Mgr IR, Mamma.com - 2000

Author, The Confessions of Alexander the Great (2004) and Course To Success: Everything You Need to Survive Beyond School (2002)

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan froosh@gmail.com’s Specialties:

Sales, marketing, strategy, user acquisition, content direction

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan froosh@gmail.com’s Experience

CEO

WatchMojo.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Investor, Founder and CEO of Mojo Supreme, a digital media, services and technology company, units include:

WatchMojo.com is one of the largest producers, publishers and syndicators of online video for the web, wireless and out-of-home digital markets. Generated 75M streams since launch, 7.5M per month and reaching 20M consumers in the out of home digital signage network. Licensing clients include numerous media companies and advertisers who use our videos for their marketing and publishing needs.

Other projects include:

StreetMojo.com connects marketers and users in the burgeoning but fragmented contest, promotions, sweepstakes and prize market.

BloggerMojo.com is a blog network covering spanning 17 categories, anchored by industry leader HipMojo.com.

TenMojo.com is the largest aggregation of top 10 lists.

Between phone calls and client meetings, managing the company and executing the business plan, Ash candidly shares the startup experience, touching on issues that sit on the crossroads of Wall Street, Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley at the industry-leading HipMojo.com blog.

Back in 2005, we also developed MetaMojo.com, a domain specific vertical search engine (think Google Coop). We first built this using Yahoo!'s API, then moved away to Nutch Lucene. We stopped working on MetaMojo.com once WatchMojo.com took off. Might return to it one day.
Sales Manager

IGN Entertainment

(Public Company; Online Media industry)

June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

Following IGN Entertainment's acquisition of AskMen, integrated AskMen's sales force into IGN Entertainment.

Set record for annual sales in 2005, with $2-3M in one year and record one-month $100,000 deal with Johnnie Walker in December 2005 (over $300,000 in last month, for a run rate of $3.6M).

Resigned in December 2005 to pursue new venture.
VP Sales, Writer, Spokesperson, Interviewer

AskMen.com - a unit of IGN, Fox Interactive Media / News Corp.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; nws; Internet industry)

September 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 4 months)

- In charge of ad sales, generated $8M.
- Wrote 1,000 columns, featured on MSN.com and AOL.com, amongst others.
- Resident celeb interviewer, interviewed the likes of Joe Montana and Hugh Hefner
- Spokesperson, quoted in Forbes, BBC and many more.
Mgr, Investor Relations

Mamma.com

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; MAMA; Internet industry)

January 2000 — September 2000 (9 months)

Supported CEO and CFO in strategic planning and corporate development.