AdSpore

AdSpore provides consumer businesses a solution to deliver targeted promotional offers to mobile social consumers.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Marketing / Advertising
  • Location Seattle, WA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2011
  • Employees 4
  • Website adspore.com

Company Summary

Businesses need to engage mobile social consumers. When consumers concentrate geographically, at campuses, sporting venues, shopping malls, or office complexes they are identifiable by demography and engage in predictable consumer behavior - on their mobile phones; in their social networks; actively consuming; & open to offers. AdSpore provides mobile apps and data analytics that enable businesses to capture these mobile social consumers.

Team

  • Craig Chelius
    CEO

    CRM, marketing automation, and successful startup experience.
    • Co-founded Primus Knowledge Solutions, a customer service software company; IPO NASDAQ. Acquired by ATG & Oracle, still operating as a product unit.
    • Senior VP of Worldwide eCRM Strategy for Vital Information, Tokyo
    • Lead investor and advisor to Enthusiasm Technologies and Mindability, both acquired
    • Marketing strategist for Keystroke Technologies, acquired by Washington Mutu

  • Dan Devine
    CTO

    Application-level architect and senior software developer with extensive experience across industry leaders and successful start-ups
    • Member of successful start-up tech teams including Dashwire (purchased by HTC) , Cequint (purchased by TNS), and Tegic/AOL(purchased by Nuance)
    • Understanding of best-practice development methodology and management as implemented by industry leaders Microsoft (Win-Mobile) and Intel (server infrastructure group

  • Xiongjiu Liao
    VP Research & Development

    Xiongjiu is an accomplished computer scientist who has a Ph.D. from MIT in geographic information systems & urban economics. Xiongjiu has designed and built large, data-driven, scaleable geographic information systems for government entities. Xiongjiu is leading the development of the technical architecture for AdSpore.

  • Ron Elgin
    Consumer Brand Advisor

    Ron is one of America's leading consumer brand marketing experts and marketing agency executives. Ron co-founded ElginSyferd in 1981. It grew to be the largest independent marketing agency in the Pacific Northwest with accounts such as McDonald's, Holland America Line, and Nordstrom. The agency was sold in 1989 to DDB Worldwide which has 206 offices in 98 countries. Ron served as CEO of the Seattle office of DDB until his retirement in Dec 2011.

Advisors

  • Joe Wallin, Davis Wright
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Aaron Barnett
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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