Experienced business builder and company leader who gave it all up to chase a dream. Previously co-founder & CTO at Smilebox, Inc. where he defined the culture and led the product team that built a service which touched hundreds of millions of people, and led to a successful exit for the investors ($40-million). Prior to Smilebox, Paul worked with the amazing team that built RealArcade at RealNetworks, redefining the casual games business. A grad

Husker country (Omaha) gal to Seattle. Abandoned PR to pursue this dream of Fanzo and blown away by everyone’s unending support to make it happen with us. Met Paul after giving 15-second pitch (while shaking in my boots) at a Lean Startup event featuring Dan Shapiro. Prior path includes working with the Seahawks while at Qwest and CenturyLink, VP of Calgary Flames’ AHL team and PR Manager at Qwest Center Omaha (now CenturyLink Center Omaha). Form

Working with good friends to build a great product and great company from scratch. First engineer hired, I architect and work on all technologies we use including Ruby, Java, Storm, Redis, Cassandra, Node.js as we plan for much much more. Prior: Zulily, Smilebox, RealNetworks.

I have 15 years of marketing experience in a variety of online industries including sports and news, casual games and data analytics. At Starwave I helped launch ABCNEWS.com, Peter Jenning’s The Century and Starbuck’s All Books for Children. At the Kellogg School of Management, I helped launch eBay’s inaugural affiliate program. I grew Smilebox from the ground up, attracting 13 million registrations through customer acquisition and SEO.