Home   l     Publishing   l     Distribution   l     Tools   l     Marketing   l     Management   l     In The News   l     Contact Us Adnan Maljanovic, General Manager, Operations. As the chief of Media Lead's operations, Adnan oversees all aspects of business operations, including staff, accounting, administrative management, business and technical operations. Previously, Adnan oversaw financial reports, variance analysis, target setting, budgeting and forecasting for American Medical Response (AMR). He also organized financial reviews, reports, budgeting, and provided recommendations for AMR, AMR business heads, and their business partners. Adnan also served as Visuals Manager for Abercrombie & Fitch, which included accounts inventory tracking, scheduling, training, and supervising the company's 107 employee staff. He received his bachelor's degree with honors in Economics and a business minor at Seattle Pacific University. Chris Joseph ("CJ") Beer, Managing Director, Sales & Business Development. As head of Media Lead's business management, Chris oversees all aspects of business development, and built the games, ringtones, and wallpapers distribution businesses, having successfully managed the porting and launch of premium games titles for key partners such as NEC, EXCITE, Mobile Media, Telus Mobility, Ericsson, Tokyo FM- Gigno, and Mobilestreams. Past positions include head of Media Barcode Portal in the U.S., a Toshiba-Softbank mobile phone barcode solutions JV subsidiary; General Manager/ International Director, Freei Networks, Ltd.; co-founder, Freei- Asia; co-Publisher/Director, Asia Pacific Chamber of Commerce for ten years; over 17 years experience in print and online advertising. He generated over $10 million in revenue and funding for these businesses. Chris received his B.A. with honors from Xavier University. Other studies include Sophia University, and the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs. ("Jenny") Wenzhi Nie, Sr. Producer/ Studio Director. Jenny oversees all porting, testing, and development work for Media Lead, as well as its Asian operations and Beijing programming team. Jenny has been working with Media Lead for over three years, previously as Media Lead's Asia general accounts manager. She is formerly with C-Valley, a leading mobile content provider to China Unicom and a THQ funded company (where she managed games development projects and WAP, and helped generate over one million registered WAP users); and Gameloft, the world's leading mobile games publisher and a UbiSoft company (where she helped with the localization and launch of such popular titles as "Prince of Persia"and "Rayman" series, among others, in China). Jenny received her B.A. from Tianjin University. Ian Starcher, Regional Sales Accounts Manager. Ian is the General Sales Manager and owner of Fantastic Games based in Seattle, Washington, a Games Workshop partner, the world’s largest tabletop fantasy games manufacturer. Previously for over six years, he was Accounts Sales Executive and Representative for Newtel and Northwest Wireless, respectively, where he played a key role in driving the company to become the Nextel New Dealer of the Year recognition in 1998, and Nextel Dealer of the Year in 1999. At Newtel and Northwest Wireless, Ian performed all phases of the sales cycle, including developing the standard setting presentations and corporate sales planning. He also spent three years as Senior Consultant and Managing Principal for Anvil Business Development, a leading sales and marketing services firm based in California and the Pacific Northwest. Ray Yuan-Zheng Young, Accounts Executive, China; formerly Managing Director for China operations, Orbis Online, a leading b2b competitive bidding auction portal based in San Antonio, Texas and China Director, Asia Pacific Economic Review. Matt Lopez, Consulting OEM Manager; fomer OEM standards manager with NEC Mobile, and KDDI (Japan's #2 mobile phone operator). He is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), an organization governing the global standards for mobile phones and data delivery. Matt received his B.A. from the University of Maryland and is fluent in Japanese. President, BluZinger LLC: Bob McCausland, President. Bob McCausland brings a wealth of online and digital media experience to Media Lead's sister conmpany, BluZinger, having founded and built what became one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the U.S., Freei Networks (Freeinternet). As founder and CEO of FreeInternet, Bob conceieved, built and led all aspects of the company's growth and business, operations, and planning. His past companies such as Home Mortgage USA were featured in Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the most successful and fastest growing companies in the U.S. Bob also sold his company, Qualfund, to First Interstate Bank, a billion dollar in assets company. Regionally, Bob has received a number of awards and recognition for his success as a businessman, including the region's business publication, Puget Sound Business Journal. Director: Dr. Weihua Zhang, President & CEO, Access Media Corporation, a leading Access, Warner Music, and Sony Music joint venture company offering "i-pod"- like solutions to the mobile phone; past Vice President & GM, Motorola Electronics Asia Pacific; Advisory Board member and past Director, Nextel International. Director: Christopher Beer, (see background on other pages). Advisory Board & Co-Founder: Franklin L. Dennis, Partner, Barokas, Martin & Tomlinson; retired Chairman, Pirelli Constructions Services, Inc. Advisory Board: Eugene H. Lee, retired Chairman, CEO & Director, Siemens Company Ltd.; past Board member, Japan's Keidanren & Keizai Doyukai. Much credit for Media Lead's involvement in mobile goes to two individuals, both veterans of the mobile phone business -- Kobsak Chinawongwatana and Kazuhiko Konda. Kuhn- Kobsak's family owned company, Jackson Company Ltd., represents a number of the world's leading handset manufacturers and mobile phone operators in Thailand, including a large equity stake in Thailand's #3 mobile operators, TRUE (formerly Telecom Asia- Orange). This was my first introduction to mobile as Kobsak's companies became our Internet partner in Thailand. Today, Kobsak is Chairman and CEO of FreeIntegration Company Ltd. based in Bangkok, whose lines of businesses include Internet services. At its peak, Freei Asia enjoyed over 3 million Internet subscribers make it one of the largest ISPs in Asia at the time, and now has been renamed Freeintegration Co. Ltd., focusing on migrating customers to high-speed Internet access. Konda-san founded a company in the late 90s called Media Portal Japan (MPJ) funded by Softbank and Toshiba to offer mobile phone barcode solutions and applications to NTT DoCoMo and other mobile operators. The onset of the "camera phone" forced MPJ to pull back from the U.S. market, but it remains a thriving niche provider of services to Japan's largest mobile carrier customers. Media Lead founders represented MPJ's business in the United States prior to Media Lead's formation. Weihua Zhang helped guide Media Lead to mobile entertainment in the early going when the company was formed in July of 2003. Media Lead © 2006