Our award winning team includes seasoned business professionals, strategists, designers and technologists.

Andy has more than 18 years of experience working at the convergence of the media and software industries. Since 1992, he has focused particularly on the Internet. Andy founded, ran, and sold a venture backed company, Urban Data Solutions, that delivered multi-dimensional databases and data applications via the internet for wireless telecommunications, real estate, the government, and media industries. More recently, he has been the president of an email newsletter company that produces 2 separate newsletters and web sites; one is for baby boomer women and the other is for fathers.

For five years in the 1990’s, Andy ran Time Warner Electronic Publishing. There, he created large-scale online games and oversaw

the development of more than a dozen unique web sites. He published more than 100 interactive titles including best-selling games, Ansel Adams photographs, and, the first multi-media edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Andy was a founding member of the New York New Media Association.

Andy is the author of three children’s books. Earlier in his career he was the Editor-in-Chief at Welsh Publishing Group, where he oversaw several titles including Outside for Kids and Little League Magazine. He has an MBA and has served as a Director of a private software company. He is the treasurer of the Bronx Charter School for Children.

Jeremy has more than 25 years of experience in managing both early-stage and mature software companies. In the early 1980’s, he held positions of increasing responsibility at McDonnell Douglas Automation Company, and in the 1990’s Jeremy was a member of the senior management team at Dun & Bradstreet. From 1997 to 1999, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of InConcert, Inc., a global leader in workflow management solutions.

Beginning in 1999, Jeremy served as President and CEO of InterWorld Corp., a provider of e-commerce solutions to Fortune 500

companies. Interworld developed the e-commerce infrastructure and back end management tools to enable its clients to operate efficient web sites.

Since 2001, Jeremy has been the CEO of two venture-backed software companies and served as a consultant to several venture capital firms which specialize in Internet infrastructure and design firm investments. He has also served as a Director at a number of private and public software companies. He holds a Master's in Business Administration degree with a concentration in International Business.

Bob has served as a Magazine Executive for 18 years, the last eleven as a Publisher or Group Publisher. From 2004 to 2006 under Bob's leadership, the advertising revenues of The Bauer Entertainment Group, made up of the celebrity weeklies In Touch and Life & Style, grew 400%. In 2006, Bob earned an Advertising Age A list award for his work at In Touch Weekly which was recognized as one of the top performing magazines in the country.

In 2004, Bob joined Rodale as the Group Publisher of the Sports Group including Runner's World, Backpacker, Bicycling, Mountain Bike and Scuba Diving.

From 1989-1997, Bob worked at several magazines including Woman's Day, Star, Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly. In 1997 Bob joined The American Baby Group and served as Group Publisher overseeing an integrated media platform encompassing print, broadcast, online, event and custom publishing. Bob was successful in creating one of the first Integrated Sales Teams responsible for selling 15 properties across 5 types of media.

Neal has 16 years of experience in software architecture, systems development, and product design. He has designed personalization features and intelligent web-based database systems for Ticketmaster / CitySearch, led the development of online systems for TimeOut New York, and created StarMedia's use profile system which efficiently handled exponential user growth. Prior to Format, Neal was general partner and vice president of engineering at Open Micro Systems. His project experience also includes developing systems for MasterCard International, Atlantic Records, Insignia / ESG, Winstar, and GEM Capital Management.

Over the years Neal has created technical products for a wide variety of industries. Because his solutions are so closely tied to clients' businesses, he has worked closely with top-level managers in order to gain the necessary insight and experience to tackle difficult problems.

Kelly began her career as Associate Director of Marketing and Branding for Two River Group, a biotechnology company based in New York City. Her role included project management, website development, public relations and other marketing activities for Two River Group and its portfolio companies.

More recently, Kelly worked as a private consultant providing similar marketing and project management services to numerous design firms.