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The
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Randy
Talyor, CEO
Randy
Taylor is Stock Media’s Chief Executive
Officer concentrating on creating new product
ideas, opening new markets and steering the company
towards the vision outlined herein.
Prior to July 1999 when he decided to devote his
full attention to launching Stock Media, Randy
Taylor was Vice President of Liaison Agency, a
Getty Images company with 74 employees and $9
million annual sales. Previously, Mr. Taylor was
Vice President of International Color Stock, Inc.
(ICS) and President of International News Service,
Inc. (INS), two companies he co-founded in 1987.
Both companies licensed the founders’ personal
advertising and editorial photography. During this
time, Mr. Taylor established a foreign network of
affiliated stock agents to market the ICS content
that accounted for 70% of sales.
Mr. Taylor commands an unusual combination of
creative, technical and management skills, as well
as a clear understanding of what photos sell and
why. Through this work, Mr. Taylor has a personal
relationship with many stock agents, which he will
utilize to create initial supply for Stock
Media.
For ICS and INS, Mr. Taylor created computerized
accounting, image tracking, and database and
marketing systems. He created CD-ROM and online
marketing tools, programmed automated office
procedures, personally created content for
licensing and oversaw a creative staff of up to six
part-time employees. ICS was the first stock agency
to offer model-released stock photos for
advertising use via an online network. In each
venture, including Liaison, ICS and INS,
profitability has been a core objective.
From 1976 to 1987, Mr. Taylor was a contract
photographer for the Associated Press,
L’Agence Sygma (now Corbis-Sygma) and Black
Star Publishing. During that time, 50 to 100 of his
photos were published every month in newspapers and
magazines worldwide. Mr. Taylor has traveled to
over 50 countries and has competency in English,
French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Mr. Taylor attended Brigham Young University where
he studied photojournalism and accounting.
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Dagmar
Fabricius, VP Of Content
Ms.
Fabricius is responsible for recruiting content
providers, overseeing internal content creation and
repurposing and automated content integration and
administration.
The unique combination of being European-born with
International taste and sensibility, having
extensive experience in hand-on content creation
and management experience makes Ms. Fabricius
ideally suited for mission critical tasks
designated to her.
Ms. Fabricius is President and co-founder of
International Color Stock, Inc. which she has
managed for 13 years via which she has established
personal bonds with photographers and stock photo
agencies that will be called upon for Stock Media.
Hundreds of her photographs are contained in
marketing stock catalogs worldwide. Her creative
skill sets include abilities in various computer
programs, including Photoshop, Flash, and
QuarkXpress.
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Joseph
A. Gitto Jr., Interim CFO
Educated
at Baruch College, Gitto has a BS in Accounting and
Finance. He is a certified Public accountant,
licensed to practice in N.Y
State.
Over
the course of his career, he has accumulated
experience in Banking and Finance (Crossland
Savings, Associates Factors), on Wall Street
(Dreyfus, Shearson Lehman), Advertising (Seltel
Inc.), Construction (Envirospan Safety) and
Financial Printing (SkillTech Global
Graphics).
The
most recent 8 years of Mr. Gitto's career were
spent at SkillTech; a NASDAQ listed, SEC reporting
company which he joined in 1992 as its accounting
manager. In late 1993, during a period of continued
losses, the Company's Board promoted Mr. Gitto to
interim CFO. During his term as interim CFO, he
oversaw the public offering of a former wholly
owned subsidiary, guided the company through an SEC
investigation which was prompted by the management
changes and successfully won a NASDAQ delisting
proceeding. He was appointed the Company's CFO and
elected to the Board of Directors in early 1995.
Subsequent years included financial crisis
management and consolidating operations, leading to
a profitable operation and acquisition. He was
directly involved in the raising of over $15
million in private and public funds, disposing or
selling of operating divisions, developing an
effective senior management team, restructuring
operations, and implementing an active, hands-on
audit committee as well as developing a
streamlined, cost efficient public reporting
system.
Mr.
Gitto will oversee all aspects of financing and
accounting for Stock Media Corporation until a
permanent CFO is selected. He is a member of the
AICPA, ICMA and AMA.
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Dave
Badger, Sales & Business
Development
Mr.
Badger was formerly V.P Business Development at
Bla-Bla.com, Inc a web-based business focused on
aggregating independent content publishers. Prior
to Bla-Bla.com, He was Sales and Marketing Manager,
Affiliated Partners at CDNOW Online, Inc., the
Internet's Number One Music Destination. Mr. Badger
has an extensive Internet business background as
well as Sales and Marketing experience with content
and content databases.
For
Stock Media Mr. Badger has been brought on board to
focus on Sales of Licensing Platforms and on
expanding revenue generation opportunities in photo
and video markets.
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Evan
Frohlich, Workflow Automation
Mr.
Frohlich is responsible for integrating content and
Meta data received from suppliers into the online
ecommerce data base.
Before joining the Stock Media team Mr. Frohlich
helped launch The Digital Music company inc.
gaining valuable experience in the internet start
up process, as well as developing a broad skill set
on both the creative and technical side.
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