About MEVIO

Ron Bloom

MEVIO (Co-Founder, Chairman)

Ron Bloom is the visionary Co-Founder behind MEVIO and has, along with Co-Founder, Adam Curry, guided the company since its inception as PodShow in 2004. Ron is responsible for MEVIO's programming and revenue strategy and is Chief Strategist in securing the company's elite private investors, including venture firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, DAG Ventures and Crosslink Ventures. Ron spearheaded MEVIO's growth as one of the fastest growing sites and a Top 20 Internet Site for Music and New Media (source: comScore).

A serial entrepreneur and experienced manager in both the private and public sector, Ron has founded and operated a range of companies, including On Ramp and Think New Ideas. Recognition includes Ron being selected by Silicon Alley Reporter as one of "New York's Top 100 Internet Industry Executives" for 1998 and 1999, his firm being named "Interactive Agency of The Year" and accolades for the development of some of the most innovative websites and e-commerce solutions in the world. Ron was named "one-to-watch" by AdWeek in January 2006. He is a respected contributor, speaker and author.

In his first career, Ron was a celebrated song writer, producer, arranger and recording artist, having worked on hundreds of songs, including several Top 10 hits.

Adam Curry

MEVIO (Co-Founder, President)

At MEVIO, Curry works on all aspects of the business, giving particular attention to acquisition and development of featured programming and talent. Adam also produces The Daily Source Code, a popular daily show, followed by an audience of millions.

In 1996 Adam served as CTO of Think New Ideas, partnering with Ron Bloom to build one of the premier Internet content and services firms. He helped build the company into a profitable global enterprise, delivering an estimated $500 million worth of online advertising from 1996 to1999. During his tenure at Think, Adam helped to develop the company's publishing, commerce, and database solutions for Fortune 100 companies, helping to define and validate the internet's role as a business accelerator. Adam was instrumental in helping the company become one of Fortune Magazine's "Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies of 1995."

Prior to his tenure at Think, Adam was a highly successful producer and broadcast personality, helping to build the MTV franchise from 1987 to 1994, both in front of and behind the camera. He has produced and syndicated programming in audio and video for entertainment networks around the globe and appears regularly as a media expert in print, radio and television. Before co-founding MEVIO, Adam established Jamby, one of the first social platforms in the Netherlands as well as building the first rich-media Network Operations Center and media distribution in Amsterdam.

Jim Feuille

Crosslink Capital

Jim focuses on investments in Digital Media and Internet Services and Software and Business Services. Prior to joining Crosslink in 2002, Jim brought 20 years of technology investment banking and management experience to the firm. Jim's prior positions included Global Head of Technology Investment Banking at UBS, where he built a powerful global technology investment banking practice from scratch, Chief Operating Officer at Volpe Brown Whelan & Company, where he ran all aspects of the firm's investment banking and brokerage operations, and led the firm to record growth in revenue and market share prior to its acquisition by Prudential, and Head of Technology Investment Banking at Robertson Stephens, where he built the technology investment banking team into a leadership position in the industry.

Jim has a BA in Chemistry from Dartmouth College and a JD and MBA from Stanford University.

Bing Gordon

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Bing is a leading thinker in entertainment. He was Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 to 2008, after heading EA marketing and product development off and on since EA's founding. He joined EA in 1982 and helped write the founding business plan that attracted KPCB as an initial investor. Bing has driven EA's branding strategy with EA Sports, EA's pricing strategy for package goods and online games, and has contributed design and marketing on many EA franchises including John Madden Football, The Sims, Sim City, Need for Speed, Tiger Woods Golf, Club Pogo and Command and Conquer. Bing has been a Director at Amazon since 2003, and was a Founding Director of Audible, Inc. He is also a Trustee of the Urban School of San Francisco, and serves on the Yale President's Advisory Council. Gordon earned an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University, and a B.A. degree from Yale University.

Ray Lane

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. He also serves on the board of Quest Software. Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal revenue growth from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to over $10 billion. Before joining Oracle, Ray was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Ray received a B.A. in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.

Ted Leonsis

Vice Chairman Emeritus of America Online

Ted Leonsis serves in many leadership roles including Emeritus of America Online LLC, a professional sports team owner, a film producer, a private-angel investor and an active philanthropist. As the longest-tenured senior executive at AOL, Ted has served in multiple leadership capacities. Early in his career, he was the founder of several new media companies including Redgate Corporation, a pioneering new media company which, in 1993, was the first company acquired by AOL.

Ted is the founder, chairman and majority owner of Lincoln Holdings LLC, a sports and entertainment company that holds ownership rights in several Washington, DC entities including 100% of the NHL's Washington Capitals and the WNBA's Washington Mystics. In addition to Lincoln Holdings LLC, Ted also has investments in several companies and serves on boards, such as MEVIO. Ted recently became involved in filmmaking through conceptualizing and producing "Nanking." Ted is a major philanthropist and is very involved with numerous charities.

Jerry Newman

Newman Venture Advisors

Jerry, a 39 year veteran of the securities and investment banking universe, has managed NASDAQ Trading groups at Merrill Lynch and Hambrecht and Quist, was a ten year senior partner at Cowen & Co. in both institutional sales and trading, created the Venture Capital Coverage efforts at Cowen, JP Morgan, and for the past seven years ran that group at Bear Stearns. He has been a trusted advisor and mentor to early stage start ups and their management teams, has been a filter of early stage deal flow to the venture capital community on a global basis, has made selected personal investments as well as having board responsibilities, and during his very active investment banking career was involved in more than 50 IPO transactions.

Ram Shriram

Sherpalo Capital

Ram Shriram started Sherpalo in January, 2000, with the goal of applying his wealth of operating and company building experience to promising early stage ventures. As a technology industry insider for over 25 years he has worked in companies large and small across all functional areas and through fluctuating business cycles. He is always eager to roll up his sleeves and work closely with founding teams on the challenging issues that confront and sometimes confound early stage ventures. Ram was named number three on the Top Tech Dealmakers by Forbes, and number six on Top Ten Kingmakers in Tech by Business 2.0 magazine. Ram is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Immediately prior to founding Sherpalo, Ram served as an Officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO. Ram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Ram was president. While at Amazon, Ram helped grow the customer base during its early high growth phase in 1998/1999. Before Junglee and Amazon, Ram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue. He drove the many partnerships and channels that Netscape employed to get massive distribution for its browser and server products during those now legendary early days of the Internet. Ram is a founding board member of Google Inc. and 247customer.com. Ram also serves on the boards of Plaxo and Zazzle.com. Ram serves on the advisory board of Naukri.com, a leading classfieds site in India which has leading marketplaces in jobs, matrimony and real estate serving the Indian market.

Young J. Chung

DAG Ventures

Before joining DAG in 1999, Young worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division, focusing on financial analysis of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, public and private financings, and other corporate transactions. While at DAG, he supported investments made in DAG I and II and led due diligence efforts in the early stages of DAG's venture investment strategy implementation. In 2004, Young joined Entrisphere, a DAG portfolio company, where he focused on strategic initiatives to improve gross margins and reported to the CEO. He returned to DAG in 2005. Young has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mark Kvamme

Sequoia Capital

Mark Kvamme is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on investments in enterprise data management software and consumer media and advertising services. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman and CEO of CKS Group, an advertising agency that pioneered new advertising strategies by integrating marketing with technology. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a BA in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.