Rich Schmelzer Email & Phone Number

With over two decades of experience in innovation, product design, and business development, Mr. Schmelzer is currently the CEO of Commutifi, the leading Commute Data Platform.Commutifi is instrumental in helping employers quantify, reduce, and report their Scope 3 Category 7 emissions, from employee commutes—the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. This imperative is driven by critical factors, including ESG considerations, legal compliance, security, privacy, and financial efficiency.Commutifi leads this transformation, serving tens of thousands of global commuters in dozens of languages and currencies. It streamlines employee onboarding to transit, parking, carpooling, vanpooling, and incentive programs, while providing advanced analytics and compliance with commuter regulations in multiple languages and currencies.Schmelzer has founded several notable consumer products companies including kids fitness gaming company GeoPalz (in partnership with Disney and Nike), and Jibbitz (for customizing Crocs shoes) a globally distributed brand selling over 1 billion units to date. Schmelzer and his products have been featured on multiple media outlets including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNBC, The Today Show, WSJ, NYT, London Times, Washington Post and LA Times. Today, Jibbitz are adorned by celebrities such as Post Malone, Justin Bieber, Nick Jonas, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande and more. After selling Jibbitz to Crocs, Schmelzer stayed on to run Jibbitz as an autonomous division of Crocs setting up independent sales and distribution offices in Tokyo, Singapore, China, Australia, the Netherlands, London and Barcelona while overseeing all aspects of the design process, procurement and end user distribution. Schmelzer’s non-consumer product companies include GES, the first company to digitally compress and stream video in a broadcast environment, AdTech company SkyConnect, which sold to Larry Ellison’s nCube, and ipArchive whose patents protect content creators and are widely used by companies such as YouTube, FaceBook, DistroKid, Sony, BMG, Disney, UMG, and more. Schmelzer is a Recording Academy Member (Grammy's) and also manages No Label Productions, LLC an Indie Record Label where he has worked with various artist to write, produce, distribute (Sony/The Orchard) and market songs since 2018.

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