Lodestone Social Media
Lodestone Converts Crowds into Commerce.
- Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Austin, TX, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded December 2011
- Employees 7
- Website lodestonesocial.com
Company Summary
Lodestone Social Media provides a SaaS social rewards platform that inspires consumers of brands to share content. Our platform allows fans to earn points for participation with each brand's social media networks, purchasing product, mobile apps & more. Fans can redeem those points for entry into promotions or redeem for rewards. Lodestone can API link to a client's CRM system & provide analytics on user data. We charge clients a yearly license.
Team
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Mark DrososCEO
Mark was COO for Powered & VP of Worldwide Marketing at Warner Bros. Under Mark's leadership, his teams took a company from $60M to $200M (organic growth) in a span of 4 years, produced award winning interactive marketing campaigns, reinvented an online education company into a leading social media company and led an agency to being named to the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies (85th overall in 2006). Mark has a BS in Marketing from ASU & a MBA
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William BlacklockExecutive Creative Director
William is responsible for Lodestone's overall UX, UI, design and market facing presence client applications. Before Lodestone, he was the Co-Founder of Twin B Creative, a front to back, full service, user-centric, creative agency. William's prior positions include the Creative Director for turn2live.com, and the Senior Art Director for nFusion Group, LLC. William has a B.A. in Advertising from UT Austin.
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Jackson BlacklockVP of Technology
Jackson designed & created Lodestone's social reward platform and is responsible for all of Lodestone's architecture. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of Twin B Creative, where he coded S2, AS3, Ruby on Rails, VB.NET, ASP, JS, JAVA, AJAX, SQL, HTML, CSS and XHTML, XML for various tech clients. Prior to Twin B he was the Tech Lead for turn2live.com. Jackson earned his MIS from UT Austin.
Advisors
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Bracewell & GiulianiLawyerUnconfirmedThomas Fasullo, CPA www.linkedin.com/in/tfasulloAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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$100k Jeff Lewis - FamilyUnconfirmed$150k total LOCUnconfirmed
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