As the president and CEO at Zmags, Michael focuses on the global expansion of Zmags' Saas-based rich-media marketing platform. Michael is a co-founder and a former general partner at General Catalyst Partners; helped build several companies from inception, including Upromise, m-Qube and SmartBargains/RueLaLa; and served on the board of CoreMetrics. Michael earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA from Brigham Young University. He served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and Monitor Company and currently serves on a number of private boards along with the Presidential Advisory Council at Brigham Young University.

Sean oversees global marketing strategy, operations, customer support, product management, and corporate recruiting. Immediately prior to joining Zmags, Sean was the CMO of Syncsort, Inc. As Vice President of Global Business Unit Marketing at Oracle Corporation, he was responsible for all of Oracle’s vertical industries worldwide including Retail. At the start of his professional career, Sean worked as a strategy consultant with Monitor Group, and was a co-founder of Upromise. He holds an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Williams College. He serves on the Board of Recovery Circles Foundation.

Hugh is responsible for the finance, accounting and risk management functions at Zmags. Previously, Hugh was COO and CFO at inStream Media, a provider of cross-channel targeted marketing services. Before that, Hugh was Global CFO at Circles, where he oversaw several areas of the business including finance, accounting, human resources, operations and business development. He also opened Circles London office following its acquisition by Sodexo. Hugh holds a joint MBA/MA in Accounting from Northeastern University and a BA in History from Amherst College. He has served or serves on several non-profit boards.

Jens has been the driving force for Zmags’ aggressive growth and international expansion. In 2005, recognizing the potential for a highly interactive digital publishing platform, Jens started a Flash-based e-magazine. Very quickly, he and his partners were inundated with requests from other publishers to “make our magazine look like yours,” and Zmags was born. Prior to starting Zmags, Jens both founded and participated in several entrepreneurial ventures in his native Denmark. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Production Optimization and Management from The Technical University of Denmark.

Michele Pearl is responsible for the continued innovation of the Zmags platform product. She has enjoyed lending her skills to both consumer web and enterprise SaaS product offerings. Most recently she was Chief Product Officer of CustomMade Ventures. Michele was on the founding team of Monster.com where her 12 year tenure included roles in Product Management, International Development, Strategy and Acquisition Integration. She's driven the product strategy and execution for the QuickBase division of Intiut and word-of-mouth marketing pioneer BzzAgent. Michele holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has completed graduate coursework at Johns Hopkins University.

Geoff Wright has over 20 years of technology of EMEA-wide sales and sales leadership experience, the last 10 of which was within the online and e-commerce environments. He focuses on leading sales teams who sell value-based technology solutions. Geoff has worked for industry leaders such as IBM, AT&T, Mercury, Venda and Siebel, plus early stage and quickly growing small businesses such as edocs, Agillic and eCommera.

Shane oversees client services implementations for Zmags’ customers, as well as serving as interim head of North American sales. Previously, as head of Business Development, Shane was responsible for building engagement with digital agencies, VARs, technology companies and distribution partners. Previously he led all sales activity for the EMEA region. Prior to Zmags, Shane has had leadership roles in multiple sales and sales operations functions, and served in management positions for Canada Post in both sales and operations. Shane attended the University of Waterloo with a major in mathematics. He also completed Executive Education coursework at the Harvard Business School.

Jonas oversees Zmags’ Copenhagen office and leads R&D companywide. Prior to joining Zmags, Jonas served as Business Development Director for a private equity company. He has also served as Managing Director of a software development company, as board director on a number of private boards and in leadership positions within several technology companies.