UnBound's mission is to be "the" entertainment ecosystem where artists/managers/labels, event promoters and brand sponsors can collaborate to develop and monetize vibrant consumer communities. The leadership team pursues that mission by a set of core values - Excellence, Innovation, Customer Fixation, and Teamwork.
Chase McMichael, Chairman/CEO
Chase has over 14 years of experience in delivering innovative and award winning products enhancing the consumer messaging market. Chase demonstrated his startup experience by driving UnBound to profitability in 2002 while being awarded the top 3rd position in the Fast Tech 50. At SprintPCS Chase launched the first Enhanced Messaging Service for 2G and 3G networks running on millions of devices based on UnBound's patented technology, which is still in production today. The same foundation is now powering UnBoundSOUND the first digital entertainment network. Prior to founding UnBound, he led the launch of Chase.com and the first high availability online banking services as a VP at Chase Manhattan Bank.
As CTO at TechSource, Chase was a key member to drive the organization to it's largest growth point and profit. As part of the "Dream Team" at Houston Chronicle Interactive, Chase drove the first real-time electronic advertising software solution based on key words and weighted frequency. At Oracle, Chase was Director of Product Management of the enterprise instant messaging product and is a veteran in the real-time collaboration technologies receiving many patents and several publications.
Greg Glover, CTO
Greg has over 10 years experience in delivering innovative enterprise and mobile messaging solutions. As UnBound’s CTO, Greg led the design and development of the Sprint PCS Short Mail service. This service currently handles millions of inter-carrier short messaging service messages per day. Greg was also the architect of the Universal Application Messaging framework, which allows delivery of enterprise applications to mobile and desktop enhanced IM clients. Greg was Principal Technical Architect at Sprint and provided Sprint's business customers with innovative technical solutions to integrate mobile and wireless technologies into the enterprise.
Greg started a consulting firm to provide technical staff support for a large scale J2EE energy auction and scheduling application, which services the Texas Ercot region. As a Lead Software Engineer at RedSky Interactive, Greg was responsible for full life cycle engineering on projects in the semiconductor, manufacturing and retail markets. At Synaptix Systems, Greg was responsible for design and development of a form-based mobile client/server database access application that allows new applications to be pushed to mobile devices.
Greg and Chase have worked together for five years as UnBound’s management team. During this time, UnBound generated 2 million in contracts with Sprint PCS with a 1.7 million license for UnBound’s messaging platform.
Ken Bane, VP Business Development
Ken is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary business leader with a wealth of experience at in the convergence of entertainment and the Internet.
Ken started his career as a urban planner, negotiating multi-million dollar land use development deals, developing long range public policy, managing public participation processes, and integrating technology into government operations.
Following twelve years of public service, Ken turned to the business world for a variety of technology and entertainment-related positions. He has structured international telecommunication partnerships for AT&T, online content distribution deals delivery needs for EMI, Sony, Warner-Bros, Cartoon Network, the Los Angeles Times, and Buy.com, and major sponsorships for The National Geographic Channel and TV shows such as 3rd Rock from the Sun and That 70s Show.
Ken also established first-of-their-kind business relationships with Yahoo and MSN to deliver syndicated television programming online.
Advisors: |
- David Scacco: Director Vertical Marketing, Google
- Vishy Kuruganti: Director Statistical Data Solutions, Yahoo
- Don Steiny: President, Institute of Social Network Analysis for the Economy
- Kelli Richards: President and CEO, The All Access Group
- Cookie Marenco: Grammy Winning Producer
- Sason Bishope Parry: Promoter Extraordinaire
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