Stephen Meade

Current

• Chairman- Founder at BigBamboo, LLC
• Chairman-Founder at AdSnips, LLC.
• CEO at MonetaPro.com

• Chairman/ Founder at SpoonMantics

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Past

• CEO- Founder at VirtualSellers.com
• Founder at Past experiences

Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City

Recommended

6 people have recommended Stephen

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Portfolio

Stephen Meade’s Summary

What I have determined in my personal and professional life is my mind never stops working.

As a result, there are few things I have become very good at:

1- Making connections and introductions.

2- Looking at a current product/solution/offering and coming up with a simple, straightforward and unique way to accomplish something more efficiently.

I tend to view myself more as a business architect. The ability to create the vision to know what something should look like at the end. It’s almost like creating the building on paper, but in this case it’s a business, idea or solution.

From there, the connecting the dots and building the teams becomes an art as much as it is a science. Getting the right people in the right places can help ensure success on any project.

This has led me to create businesses and relationships in which pushing up people and making the world a better place are paramount.

Background-

Mr. Meade is the Principal in BigBamboo, LLC., a holding company formed to help bring companies from conceptualization to creation. Serving as Chairman and “Resident Rainmaker”, the company has created other entities such as-AdSnips- unique mobile advertising for cell phone industry, MonetaPro- closed loop transaction processing systems, ComCom Networks- private labeled transaction system for affinity groups and communities, RONAStar- an enterprise solution which empowers large corporation to save money, SpoonMantics- a romantic gift line of Jewelry, Chocolates, and Clothing, EAMS- Homeland Security, disaster response and business continuity, TouchPoints Media, a convergent media and marketing company, AlleyWayProductions- an online calendar contest utilizing social networking, 6Bacon- Social Networking Platform, and several more.

Mr. Meade is a life long entrepreneur, having created 9 successful companies.

For a complete background, please visit-

http://www.bigbamboollc.com/portal/tabID__3379/DesktopDefault.aspx

Stephen Meade’s Specialties:

Transaction processing, transaction systems, closed loop payment system, economic models, order completion systems, and psychological intricacies of e-commerce

Stephen Meade’s Experience

• Chairman- Founder

  BigBamboo, LLC

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  BigBamboo, LLC is a holding company for the various operating companies. Please check out the web site, www.bigbamboollc.com for a better understanding of the offerings.
  
  The site has current operating companies, in debelopment companies, as well as companies that are in search of management or a leader to bring them to market.

• Chairman-Founder

  AdSnips, LLC.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  AdSnips provides a unique advertising proposition for the Wireless Carriers, Advertisers and Consumers.
  
  After two years of stealth development, the company is coming to market with a roster of A list advisors, a current CEO with industry experience, and are expanding the management team.
  
  The current need is for a wireless carrier to accept the value proposition. We are in discussions with and looking for additional contacts into the Verizons, ATT Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprints, Vodafones, and Oranges of the world.

• CEO

  MonetaPro.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Responsible for relationships, business development, and strategic direction of the company. The company has several products.
  
  Community Commerce- for members within an affinity group to buy and sell from each other.
  
  RONAStar- For a large corporation to save money by redeploying their own idle assets.
  
  EAMS- For Homeland Security and Emergency Management to locate and identity critical needed resources.
  
  EAMS Corporate- For Business Continuity and Disaster management.
  
  Please visit www.MonetaPro.com for more information.

• Chairman/ Founder

  SpoonMantics

  (Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  SpoonMantics is a romantic gift line with operational headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.

• CEO- Founder

  VirtualSellers.com

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

  March 1996 — March 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  Founded VirtualSellers.com (OTC BB: VDOT), a provider of e-commerce transaction processing services for Internet-based e-tailers. Helped develop the transaction processing systems and sold in 1999 to a public company that assumed the name Virtualsellers.com. At it’s height, VDOT had a market cap of $850 Million.
  
  Under his direction the company created a transaction processing system that was seamless for the consumer. VDOT provided a private labeled ecommerce engine and customized shopping cart. VDOT also used their own merchant account to process and clear online transaction and orders for hundreds of different web sites.
  
  The end result was a hit-to-sales ratio of 6.5% versus an industry average of under 1%. In regards to shopping cart bail-out and order completion rate, the success was over 78% versus an industry average of only 16%.
  
  VDOT- the technology, service and concept- was an early precursor to what later became PayPal.

• Founder

  Past experiences

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Services industry)

  May 1986 — May 1996 (10 years 1 month)

  My past experiences include retail watch stores in Kansas City (TimesUP!), Authored 3 books (credit improvement, budget and finance), had a National Informercial (Give Yourself Credit), became a Regional Vice President at age 24 with Travelers Group, and wrote a book on personal networking and relationship building.

Stephen Meade’s Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City

  Bachelors, Business and Marketing, 1985 — 1990

Additional Information

Stephen Meade’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Portfolio

Stephen Meade’s Interests:

Mr. Meade is an avid soccer and volleyball player and enjoys public speaking. He has been on panels, covered topics, and given lectures at numerous universities; MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Loyola University, Peter Kiewit Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the University of Nebraska.

Stephen Meade’s Groups:

Mr. Meade is on the advisory board of the following companies: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum in Chicago; Chicago House of Blues (www.hob.com); PCGuild (www.pcguild.com) a logistics provider for music tours with client such as the Dave Mattews Band, Beck and Brittany Spears; Trilogy Capital in Orange County, focusing on funding for corporations; and AgilCo (www.agileco.net).

•    Executive Suite
•    LIONs "LI Open Networkers"
•    For Knowledge Persons
•    End-SPAM!
•    Athletes & Executives
•    The Due Diligence Group

Stephen Meade’s Honors:

He was recently selected as a judge for the prestigious global Thunderbird Business Plan Challenge (www.innovationchallenge.com), and served as a finalist judge for Boats.com e-commerce challenge.

Stephen Meade’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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