Continually looking for new challenges and adventures. Plunk is bringing Advanced Analytics to the world’s largest asset class - allowing consumers to make confident, informed decisions and realize their best financial outcomes.Over the last 30+ years, been lucky and blessed to have founded, co-founded or held senior positions in dozens of start-up companies resulting in 2 IPOs, 14 acquisitions and over $32 billion in high water market value. Prior founder/CEO roles at successful company building projects include; Z2, founded and built one of the leading mobile games companies - acquired by King.com; NextMedium, helped build the first online marketplace for product placement advertising - acquired by Brand Affinity Technologies; GoTV Networks, founded and built the world's largest mobile television studio and distribution network - acquired by Phunware; Medio Systems, co-founded a predictive analytics platform acquired by Nokia/HERE; WUF Networks, built a mobile content streaming platform - acquired by Yahoo!; (M)Forma (aka HandsOn Mobile), co-founded a leading mobile games company; NearMe, co-founded and built the first mobile directory service; 2WAY Corporation, co-founded a 2-way communications platform, now Validar; co-founded Realtor.com (now Move.com (NASDAQ: MOVE); WorldVoice, an NLP/voice recognition platform - acquired by Motorola; Mammoth Micro Productions, built a digital media studio - acquired The Washington Post, helped build Mosaix International (NASDAQ: MOSX) - later acquired by Lucent/Avaya and Davox Corporation (NASDAQ: DVX).My career started in sales - both as a Senior Business Development Manager for Motorola and as National Accounts Manager for Hewlett-Packard overseeing manufacturing and engineering sales to the Boeing Company. Specialties: Been humbled many times over - sincerely enjoy the adventures and challenges of pioneering new ideas and marketplaces.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Mobile Devices, Mobile Applications, Entrepreneurship, and 46 others.