business guy for internet startups
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- advisor at sortuv
- founder at connected leads
- advisor at barokas pr
- principal at sawickipedia llc
- Past
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- vp marketing & business dev at lookery
- founder at foggy games
- advisor at others online
- advisor at jamglue
- advisor at facebar
- marketing consultant at nirvanix
- marketing consultant at loomia
- marketing consultant at blist
- consultant at ripl
- vp of marketing at spock
- sr. director of marketing at zango
- director of marketing at vendaria
- general manager at barrett enclosures
- director of marketing & business development at loudeye technologies
- founder at simplytv.net
- sr. marketing analyst at disney channel
- consultant at price waterhouse
- Education
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- Duke University
- Pittsford Mendon High School
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Todd Sawicki’s Summary
Focused on helping startups and early stage companies get off the ground in marketing, customer acquisition and business development.
Todd Sawicki’s Specialties:
Experience working with online advertising, digital media, music, search, casual games and social networking
Todd Sawicki’s Experience
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Chief Revenue Officer
Cheezburger Network
(Internet industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Responsible for all things revenue for the leading network of online humor sites featuring ICanHasCheezburger.com and FAILBlog.org
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advisor
Wetpaint
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
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advisor
BuddyTV
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
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advisor
sortuv
(Internet industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
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founder
connected leads
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Developing social applications for lead generation
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advisor
barokas pr
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Tech PR without the BS
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principal
sawickipedia llc
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Consulting and advising online startups in the areas of social networking, digital music, online advertising and web technologies with regards to marketing.
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vp marketing & business dev
lookery
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2007 — August 2009 (2 years 2 months)
Lookery aggregates, cleans, sells, and distributes anonymous user profiles featuring our demographic retargeting service for advertisers, publishers and ad networks.
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founder
foggy games
(Computer Games industry)
April 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 4 months)
Foggy Games runs FoggyGames.com an online destination for users to find, download and share casual games. Sold to Game Interrupt LLC.
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advisor
others online
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 9 months)
Others Online discovers what your audience cares about and makes online publishers more money. Others Online was acquired in summer 2009.
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advisor
jamglue
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Music is really hard to make; Jamglue figure with some good web-based tools and a community of collaborators, we can make it easy and fun.
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advisor
facebar
(Internet industry)
May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)
Advisor for this seed stage Internet startup based in Palo Alto,CA and backed by Palomar Ventures [Closed in 2007]
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marketing consultant
nirvanix
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)
Nirvanix provides businesses with next-generation storage-as-a-service (SaaS), and is addressing the challenges associated with the explosive growth of user-generated content and the corresponding demand for storage. Nirvanix is venture backed by Valhalla Partners and Mission Ventures.
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marketing consultant
loomia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — November 2007 (8 months)
Own and drive marketing for Loomia - a leading provider of behavioral recommendation services for oniline media and retail sites.
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marketing consultant
blist
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)
blist is an early stage company founded by Kevin Merritt, a serial entreprenuer and technologist.
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consultant
ripl
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
Drive third party application developer strategy and relationships
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vp of marketing
spock
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)
Spock - http://www.spock.com - is developing a search engine that helps users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added everyday, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine. Spock expects to publicly launch in 2007. Spock raised over $8 million from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures.
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sr. director of marketing
zango
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
September 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 4 months)
Zango fulfills the growing demand for free ad-supported online videos, games, music, and utilities. Zango's enables content creators to monetize and distribute their content, provides publishers access to unique content as well as a way to make money from their Web traffic, and delivers to advertisers industry-leading ROI through time-shifted ad delivery by engaging more than 20 million consumers precisely when they are most likely to make a purchasing decision.
From 2003 through 2006, Zango raised $80 million dollars, ranked 5th in the 2005 Inc 500, and was the 2nd fastest growing private company in Washington, Todd created and launched the Zango brand, pioneered its web and online customer acquisition strategy which grew Zango to 20 million users, helped build its roster of advertisers and affiliate publishers into the thousands, developed Zango's innovative catalog of ad-supported content. Todd managed Zango Games into a top 15 online casual gaming destination. -
director of marketing
vendaria
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Vendaria provides online consumers with a superior end user experience by combining video, audio, animations and text into dynamic rich media presentations. Vendaria's product presentations clearly convey a product's key features, benefits and functionality. And the company's patent pending technology allows this product content to be delivered easily and seamlessly to online consumers. With a distribution network of leading online retailers including Amazon.com, Sears.com and Walmart.com, Vendaria insures consumers will be able to easily find Vendaria's rich media product presentations.
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general manager
barrett enclosures
(Plastics industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
Barrett Enclosures is a leading designer and developer of OEM and custom marine accessories. Todd helped develop a product and OEM strategy ultimately leading to OEM relationships with Catalina Yachts, Tiara Yachts and SeaRay.
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director of marketing & business development
loudeye technologies
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LOUD; Internet industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
Loudeye, originally encoding.com, was a leader in the digital media technologies and services offering companies a way to encode, manage and distribute their content online. Loudeye raised $175 million including a successful IPO in 2000. The company was eventually acquired Muze and Nokia.
As one of Loudeye's earliest employees, Todd was responsible for launching the company and positioning it as the leader in the new emerging digital media market. Todd also led the company's move into the digital music space, helping develop the product plan, relationships with Universal Records, Sony, BMG, Warner and EMI and expand internationally. -
founder
simplytv.net
(Internet industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
With a $1 million raised in angel money, SimplyTV.net was founded as one of the earliest video portals and destinations. Offering independent video creators a platform to share and distribute their content online, SimplyTV was a pioneer in the early days of online video and streaming. With over 1,000 hours of content, SimplyTV offered one of the largest online video libraries in the world.
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sr. marketing analyst
disney channel
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
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consultant
price waterhouse
(Management Consulting industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years )
Todd Sawicki’s Education
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Duke University
B.A. , Public Policy and Economics , September 1990 — May 1993
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Pittsford Mendon High School
Additional Information
Todd Sawicki’s Websites:
Todd Sawicki’s Groups:
Casual Games Association
IDGA (Independent Developers of Games Association), Gnomedex, Shack League, NWIAG, GSHL, Digital Hollywood, PEPS, Demo Fall 2007, Audi World, ad:tech
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Seattle 2.0
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