Mick Liubinskas

Current

• Web Strategist at Pollenizer
• Chief Operating Officer at Tangler

Past

• Web Strategist at HollyBridge (Self-employed)
• Chief Marketing Officer at Zapr
• Travel and Volunteer Work at Life

• Head of Marketing And Business Development at Kazaa (Sharman Networks/LEF)
• Marketing and Sales Manager at MassMedia
• CEO at eCoast
• Marketing Manager at Virgin Interactive Entertainment
• Marketing Executive at IBM

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Education

• Australian Graduate School of Management
• Australian Graduate School of Management
• University of Newcastle

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Connections

374 connections

Industry

Internet

Mick Liubinskas’s Summary

I love technology and bringing it to the world working with an amazing team.

IBM, Virgin, Startups, Kazaa, Zingee/Zapr, Tangler
Tech, net, applications, peer-to-peer.
Consumer.
Mass.
Global.
Product marketing i.e. making amazingly, great products.

Mick Liubinskas’s Specialties:

Internet marketing, web applications, viral marketing, customer acquisition, media, SEO, SEM, Peer-to-peer, digital content sales, leadership, business development, business models

Mick Liubinskas’s Experience

• Web Strategist

  Pollenizer

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (5 months)

  Pollenizer helps startup web businesses get big.
  
  This includes;
  - Internet services
  - Web based applications
  - Desktop software
  
  Services include:
  
  Business -
  - Business strategy and model development.
  - Market strategy planning.
  - Marketing implementation planning and execution.
  - Communications strategy.
  - Product development strategy, planning and functionality requirements.
  
  Technology-
  - Technology Confidence Report - for founders and investors.
  - Development process improvement.
  - Preparation for scale
  - Support with outsourcing
  
  Our current clients are:
  * Tangler
  * LingoPal
  * Ultimo Road and BonBon
  * MyPeople
  * 3eep
  * Stealthy Twitter App
  * Another Stealthy App
  * Goalsy
  
  Contact me on mliubinskas@gmail.com for further information.

• Chief Operating Officer

  Tangler

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

  October 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Making the product awesome.
  Managing the marketing, media and community teams.
  Look after the customers.
  Representing users in feature debates.
  Build great partnerships.
  Build enormous revenue streams.
  Growing. Fast!
  Build Tangler into a well respected company.
  Manage media.

• Web Strategist

  HollyBridge (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Pollenizer helps startup web businesses get big.
  
  This includes;
  - Internet services
  - Web based applications
  - Desktop software
  
  Services include;
  - Business strategy and model development.
  - Market strategy planning.
  - Marketing implementation planning and execution.
  - Communications strategy.
  - Product development strategy, planning and functionality requirements.
  
  My current clients are:
  * Tangler
  * LingoPal
  * Ultimo Road and BonBon
  * MyPeople
  * 3eep
  * Stealthy Twitter App
  * Goalsy
  
  Contact me on mliubinskas@gmail.com for further information.

• Chief Marketing Officer

  Zapr

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

  June 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  http://www.zapr.com/
  Consumer software application development.
  File sharing and storage.
  Startup.
  Seeking funding from smart partners.
  
  Product development.
  Marketing strategy.
  Message management.
  Launched at DEMO, February 2006.

• Travel and Volunteer Work

  Life

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

  July 2004 — April 2005 (10 months)

  Travelled Europe, Africa and North America.
  England, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (family background), Poland, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria.
  
  Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Worked for 3 months in Arusha, Tanzania with MondoChallenge. Got robbed by fake police. Helped set up a student loan program for adults. http://wheel.blogs.com/lfl
  
  USA and Canada.

• Head of Marketing And Business Development

  Kazaa (Sharman Networks/LEF)

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

  June 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  • Reporting to CEO for;
  o Product Marketing: Developing the application for more than 40 million customers, 5 million online at one time and the most downloaded application in history (300M).
  o Revenue streams: development of revenue streams. Including search, OEM, advertising and content sales. P&L.
  o Brand: directing one of the fastest growing brands in the world.
  • Build, develop and lead a senior team of 16 product marketers, content developers, designers, web developers, researchers and business developers in a complex and challenging environment.
  • Customer retention, customer acquisition, new product development, viral, PR/media, lobbying, and strategic alliance development.
  • Working with markets, partners and media in USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Korea, India, Italy, Israel, Estonia and Denmark. Including Overture, Skype, Tiscali, Doubleclick, Lions Gate Films & Russell Simmons Music.
  • Building and launching Kazaa Plus, the paid for version of Kazaa.

• Marketing and Sales Manager

  MassMedia

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

  July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year)

  Generating leads and selling in web development and Internet application projects to medium sized companies and government departments.

• CEO

  eCoast

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 1 month)

  Started and built a web services company focusing on local government and small business.
  Company closed after three years.
  $50,000 initial capital.

• Marketing Manager

  Virgin Interactive Entertainment

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  August 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Managing media and product marketing.

• Marketing Executive

  IBM

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  Database Marketing manager.

Mick Liubinskas’s Education

• Australian Graduate School of Management

  New Marketing Imperiatives 2005 — 2005

• Australian Graduate School of Management

  High Tech Marketing 2004 — 2004

• University of Newcastle

  Bus, Marketing and Politics, 1993 — 1995

Additional Information

Mick Liubinskas’s Interests:

Surfing, soccer, basketball, mountain biking, dancing, karaoke, bbq, snow boarding.

Mick Liubinskas’s Groups:

Desperate Surfers, Central Coast Cavaliers, D&Ders, WOWers.

• Forbes.com San Francisco Group member

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