Icarus Ascending, limited

IA is a company created around one simple idea.To develop repeat business,companies must create a bond which extends beyond the first visit

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Evanston, IL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2012
  • Employees 4
  • Website strikingly.com

Company Summary

Company is developing an application using available technology so that one of two things happens when a customer walks into any environment that uses music. IE.; a bakery customer enters and is greeted with music residing on their smartphones. Better still, imagine if the bakery “read” the customers Pandora®, Spotify®, Roxio®. Idea works in a “que.” The same will apply when a customer calls on a smartphone and is put on hold.

Team

  • Masten Hunter Meisels
    President

    Student, University of Illinois at Champaign. Concept originator.

  • Vegard Vevstad
    CFO

    Significant channel development experience particularly in the franchise channel working routinely with multibillion dollar clients.. Mr. Vevstad, who has his MBA from the University of Chicago,assumes the CFO position. Former senior strategic planner at Francorp, a company that identifies itself as the oldest and largest franchise delopment company Client lists include major oil companies (BP Shell),as well as many large food related prospects

  • Mark Evans Meisels
    CEO

    Mr. Meisels has significant channel development experience particularly in the franchise channel working with multibillion dollar clients from a strategic planning perspective. Mr. Meisels was the senior strategic planner at Francorp, the oldest and largest franchise development company.His client lists include oil companies (BP), telephone companies (Pacific Bell, Cellular One, Telephonos Mexicanos),and large food related projects.

  • Alan Savage
    Senior Program Development

  • Mark Meisels

Advisors

  • James Webster, Webster Powell
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

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