About Zadby

Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube and MySpace. Zadby facilitates the creation, posting, tracking, and payment for online videos with product placement angles.

Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through our online marketplace. Since Zadby takes care of the administrative pieces, this frees up the brand manager to think about what they do best: steward the brand.

Online video producers, who currently create millions of videos a year for online consumption through outlets like YouTube, now have a market where they can earn money from what they love to do anyway: creating videos.

Zadby sits in the middle and acts as the glue and the grease to pull it all together in a seamless manner. It provides all the tools and the legal frameworks to allow each party to do what they do best, just connected in a new and innovative way.

The Team

The ever growing Zadby team is made up of a bunch of nutty, brainy, workaholic goofballs with a wide swath of skills, talents, and interests. Backgrounds include experience with startups to Fortune 50 companies in roles covering e-commerce, marketing, sports entertainment, executive management, healthcare, Web development, management consulting, systems architecture, graphic design, user experience, interface design, Web hosting, product management, and video production.

Driving the short bus is Beau Brewer, an experienced entrepreneur with a track record of execution. He describes his job as "lots and lots of bottlewashing." Beau comes to Zadby fresh off a successful re-launch of a struggling startup in the telecom space, which he took from 20,000 to 200,000 subscribers in just three months. Prior to that experience, he served as the General Manager of another startup--Turing Travel. Before all this startup craziness, Beau cut his teeth with years as a technical architect and executive at Accenture. He has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from Georgetown.

Building the technical foundation is Tim McLaughlin, another successful entrepreneur with three companies to his name, including Siteworx, an award winning Web Strategy, Interactive Design and Application Development company, and Axiom Software, based in Reston, VA. In addition to a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Tim has educational excursions into music, language, art, and artificial intelligence, and is a heck of a soccer player when his hectic schedule permits.

Rand Kramer is Zadby's creative design guru. He is the principle creative lead and consultant on usability, accessibility and visual design. Our only complaint with Rand is that he's got so many Webby Awards, Davey Awards, and W3 Awards that we're running out of office space!

Mike Dunn is Zadby's finance guy. He can crunch numbers with the best of them and is very good at patiently and repeatedly explaining in very small words why we don't need a corporate jet yet. He raised $19M at his last startup and subsequently obtained a tender offer from the Carlyle Group. Zadby is his fourth startup.

While there are too many team members to call them all out by name, we'll just mention a few others: Bill Jensen, a superb graphic artist and creator of the Zadby logo; Thomas Mayfield, JavaScript master and "go-to guy"; Josh Thaxton, CSS swami extraordinaire; Patrick "the plumber" Jones, who makes sure all the systems work together; Andrew "Mac Guy" Turrell, Flasher and mouthpiece; Scott Harris, dev team lead and cat herder; Jim Schmatz, tal file pro; and Lea Mariani, project manager, taskmaster, and lady with the whip standing between us and the ping pong table.