Paul Schaut currently serves as Chairman and CEO for Retail focused digital media leader Modiv Media. Paul also continues to serve as an independent advisor to venture backed technology companies and brings more than 23 years of sales, marketing and executive management experience as well as a deep expertise in the technology, digital and mobile marketing industries. Paul's portfolio of advisory services help CEO's leverage his operational experience and network to assist in board and / or management alignment, business development expansion, M&A strategy and execution along with many other large and small challenges faced by CEO's everyday.

During his career, Paul has served in a number of sales, marketing and executive management capacities. As President and CEO of Tira Wireless, the company had strengthened its leadership position in the mobile porting market, achieved tremendous growth, secured additional venture funding, and the Tira Jump Product Suite made its successful market debut.

Prior to joining Tira Wireless Paul served as President and CEO of Performaworks, a Goal-Driven Performance Management™ software company where he successfully ushered its growth and eventual sale to Workscape in March 2004.

Paul's most intense base of experience occurred during the heavy growth years of the internet while serving as President and CEO of Engage, where he led the company through a dramatic growth period, including the integration of ten acquisitions, worldwide expansion, closure of private funding and a successful initial public offering. Engage was eventually valued at $12 billion.

In addition to Modiv Media, Paul currently serves as an “engaged” Board Director for www.zumobi.com and as advisor to Singlepoint (www.singlepoint.com) and Ringleader (www.ringleader.com). Paul is also an angel investor in several private technology companies.

Eric brings more than 30 years of mobile industry experience, entrepreneurial vision and seasoned management skills to the Zumobi team. Most recently, Eric was CEO of Zumobi, having seen the company through its establishment in the market and successful product roll-out. Prior to Zumobi, Eric was Chief Operating Officer of Western Wireless, a successful high-growth wireless voice and data company with presence in 19 states and 11 countries. Eric also has held senior management roles at BellSouth, McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business.

A veteran marketing and digital media specialist, Ken has been actively involved in the development of mobile as a media platform since 2002. As Chief Executive Officer of Zumobi, Ken leads an experienced team in the development and growth of Zumobi's mobile media business. Prior to Zumobi, Ken was Vice President of Advertising and Media at AT&T Wireless, where he developed a number of innovative marketing programs to stimulate consumer adoption of mobile content and applications.

One of his most successful programs was the American Idol media sponsorship, where he was the driving force behind an integrated marketing campaign widely recognized as the seminal event that popularized text messaging in the United States. Earlier, Ken was Founder and Vice President of marketing at Fizzylab, an early entrant in the contextual search and advertising space. By developing marketing programs and partnerships with leading digital media companies, Ken helped grow Fizzylab from a garage start-up to a company with more than 50 media clients in just 15 months.

Ken began his career in the advertising business and held senior management roles at national advertising agencies including McCann-Erickson and Rubin Postaer and Associates. During this time, he led the development of advertising and branding campaigns for leading consumer companies including The Walt Disney Company, Hitachi, Washington Mutual Bank, WebTV and Domino's Pizza, among others.

Ken graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in marketing. He is on the steering committee of InMobile.org and a member of the WINMEC Media and Entertainment Advisory Board at UCLA.

John SanGiovanni has more than eight years of experience as a wireless strategist and mobile user interface designer. He is to blame for Zumobi's obsession with design and to-the-nanosecond interest in technical and cultural trends. Before Zumobi, John was Technical Evangelist and Program Manager for Microsoft Research, where he managed external academic research funding in the areas of mobile technologies and user interfaces. In this role, he filed several patents concerning information visualization, hardware interfaces and interaction techniques for next-generation mobile devices, some of which provide the foundation for Zumobi's core user experience.

Before joining Microsoft, John worked on the Advanced Technology Learning Solutions team at PPI/Knowledge Universe and worked in Studio Entertainment for the Walt Disney Company. John has a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and a concentration on Computing from the University of Florida.