Scott Rozic

Current

@ at Crowd Factory
CEO at Gravitas

Past

CEO at Various
CEO at TimeShift
Executive Vice President at Aptimus

CEO at XMarkstheSpot
CEO at Verge Software

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Education

University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Wakefield

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Scott Rozic’s Summary

Social entrepreneur and alpha geek with a heavy foot on the metal. I've lived in 7 countries and traveled repeatedly to over 50 countries. I'm a startup person at heart, starting my first company right out of college. I've worked with people all over the world, on internet related products and projects. Social media, developing apps, all things web, and startups get me jumping out of bed everyday. I care deeply about the planet and I am heavily involved in changing the world through expanding the eco sector, greening the planet and performing sustainable business and personal practices. All handily delivered via the ever expanding social web.

Let's connect if you are an entrepreneur, big customer looking to add social to your site, ruby on rails developer, SEO-type, geek marketer, a mind-bending designer or a fantastic client with a big plan. Let's see if there are ways we can help each other!

First connect with me on Linkedin (srozic@gmail.com) and then shoot me an email. Have fun!

Scott Rozic’s Specialties:

social networking, social apps, ruby on rails, eco, green services, sustainability, facebook apps, opensocial apps, microformats, open source, community building, social systems, search engine optimization, geek marketing, web 2.0, deals from start to finish, technology, global marketing, family, company building, fundraising, making it so, SEO, multi-lingual, marketing, advertising, APIs, software development, web services, consulting, travel, and international

Scott Rozic’s Experience

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Crowd Factory

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Make vibrant communities with Crowd Factory, a powerful platform that allows you to create a social network site similar to Facebook or MySpace. The experience and look are completely customizable, allowing your design team to skin Crowd Factory with your brand identity and launch the site quickly. The service includes features a community needs, from user profiles, galleries, blogs and can support heavy scale as well as deep enterprise integration. Customers include Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (www.marthastewart.com/yourplace), Scholastic, The Golf Channel, and Comcast. The service is offered on a hosted basis, and can be deployed quickly and easily at a fraction of the cost of developing software in-house.
CEO

Gravitas

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years )

Our current business model is to build, acquire and develop social properties, expand their global presence and have fun working with great people. This includes social entrepreneurship projects using social applications to change the world and make it a better place.

We have a small crew that provides development and consulting services to build a Web 2.0 app, start something new or outsource your product development and social marketing. Development expertise includes Ruby on Rails, Facebook Applications, REST and API work, multi-lingual. Marketing capabilities include search engine optimization, site development and syndication and search engine optimization.
CEO

Various

(Internet industry)

May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Developed social marketing companies worldwide, developing platform applications for dynamic content delivery and search engine optimization. We were light years ahead in some areas, and while we fought to the top of the mountain it ranged from the good, the bad and the ugly. If I was a dog, this would have been 14 years of experience. Rapidly climbed the social ladder, shipped and marketed planetwide. Decided that Rails was better than PHP (for me and what we do) and experience is worth its' weight in gold.
CEO

TimeShift

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

July 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 9 months)

Developed a profitable global marketing business from scratch with US and European business that included ad representation, targeted marketing programs and seo/micro-sites to promote global products and services. Worked strategically with several large agencies and large advertisers to develop unique cross-border marketing programs.

Developed demographically targeted online marketing campaigns as the primary revenue driver for key clients such as T-Mobile, AT&T, Citibank, Ian Schrager and Verisign. Traveled internationally building business, working with brokers, agencies and direct client programs for companies to support sales goals.
Executive Vice President

Aptimus

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

November 2000 — June 2002 (1 year 8 months)

After we sold XMarkstheSpot I ran sales and marketing at Aptimus, a public direct marketer that was later sold to Apollo. Responsibilities started with managing a large team of 170 people spanning two offices, technology integration, reorganization and driving new revenue centers. Post reorganization I continued in the same role as we built major new deals and landed our largest strategic advertisers and developed new distribution channels for our offers. It was my first experience in a non-CEO role, as an officer of a public company and it was fun.
CEO

XMarkstheSpot

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

July 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Launched XMarkstheSpot as a second product that immediately gained big traction in the marketplace. XMarkstheSpot was an ad serving technology for data-acquiring advertisements. The offer serving technology was the first in the marketplace to dynamically and contextually serve CPA ads alongside CPM and CPC (performance and impression driven). The product extended our core technologies and engineering ability to deliver the right piece of information at the right time into the lucrative ad marketplace. Two quarters into scaling revenue we sold the company to Aptimus.
CEO

Verge Software

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

March 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 9 months)

Back in the early days, we built a killer java server and web based system to manage know-how inside big corporations. Insight combined the web with tons of repositories inside companies, and as a little company we managed to sell licenses to Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard and Intel. I was a wet behind the ears first time CEO in this one, raising capital, working with some really outstanding investors, executives and people.

Scott Rozic’s Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

BS , Finance and Entrepreneurship , 1991 — 1995
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

BS , Finance and Entrepreneurship , 1991 — 1995
Wakefield

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Scott Rozic’s Interests:

community,web 2.0,spain, spanish, ,france, argentina, south africa,china, panama, going global, rugby, skiing, trail running, ultra-marathons,rock climbing, snowboarding, golf, tennis, travel, writing, reading, open source, community projects, search,blogging, triathlons, social media