Jacob R. Miles III, Founder, CEO and Chairman has held his position since the inception of the company. He has over 25 years experience working in products, media and entertainment businesses. Prior to holding this position Mr. Miles was CEO and Chairman of Urban Television Network Corp., a multi-culturally focused national broadcast television network. Before this he was President & CEO of Urban Cool Network Inc., a leading urban focused internet portal. In this capacity he led the vision and execution of the build out of the technology infrastructure and content. He also held a leadership position on Vice President, Al Core’s Digital Divide Initiatives in the inner cities of America.
Mr. Miles is also a past Vice President of Hasbro’s Tonka Toys Div., A senior executive for General Mills Toy and Entertainment Group and prior to that he was employed by General Electric Corp.
Mr. Miles is an alumnus of University of Cincinnati Engineering School; He has taken management courses at New York University and Xavier University.
He has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, television and radio outlets, Including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, BET, Business Week, and Today Show among others. He has also been featured in several leading business books.
Mr. Miles has served as Arts Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis, on the board of the United Way Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota Children’s Museum and as Neighborhood Coordinator and Council delegate for the city of Cincinnati. He currently serves on the board of Directors of the City of Grapevine, Texas’ Grapevine Heritage Foundation and MeMe and My World Inc. He is a co-founder of Beautiful Africa LLC and MeMe and My World Inc. He has received the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Minneapolis College and speaks at media and entertainment conferences nationally and internationally.
Scott Monaco, Chief Creative Officer, is a visionary designer and entrepreneur having excelled for over 10 years in entertainment property development, illustration, product design, graphic design, advertising, and web design & development. His creative leadership has led him to be the founder of QuietYell LLC, and co-founder of MeMe & My World Inc., Release Studios, and Spiniker Media Group. He has also served as art director for Calise & Sedei Agency and The Springboard Agency.
Monaco's advertising and agency experience allowed him to work with a wide range of industry leaders, including Samsung, Fujitsu, Texas Instruments, Fossil, Blockbuster, Boy Scouts of America, Game Stop, American Floral Industry Association, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, and many more. He has lead & provided design and creative services to niche or specialty clients in the healthcare, real estate, health & fitness, sports, technology, and entertainment industries amongst others.
With years of design, illustration, branding, advertising, and web development, Monaco now applies this experience towards the creation, development, marketing & business growth of his entertainment & product ventures. From children's, family values, and Christian to urban, punk, asian/anime and hip-hop properties, Monaco's design skills, insight and diversity provide depth and richness to whatever project he is involved with.
Currently, the main social media sites I use regularly are:
http://www.Facebook.com/ScottMonaco
http://Twitter.com/ScottMonaco
http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/QuietYell
http://www.FriendFeed.com/ScottMonaco
http://digg.com/users/ScottMonaco
You can find a lot of my social media profiles here:
http://www.ScottMonaco.com
http://www.SocialMediaAnalysts.com/scottmonaco
http://www.weavemet.com/contact/scottmonaco
http://www.dandyid.org/id/ScottMonaco
Donna Steele, VP Sales & Marketing, Co-Owner of Beautiful Africa LLC an affilated company of GrapevineStar Entertainment Inc, Donna is past Vice President of Nest Entertainment, a leading family and home schooling focused distributor of childrens’ and family entertainment and media.
Lap Ngo, Founder and Co-Owner of Beautiful Africa LLC, an affilated company of GrapevineStar Entertainment Inc. He is a globally recognized fine artist with studios in Texas and France, who has spent over 30 years on the African continent and dedicated to documenting through his paintings the beauty of Africa. Lap heads the Beautiful Africa/GrapevineStar Paris, France office.
Scott Wong, PhD, VP Technology & Strategy is a founder of Brethren Entertainment Studios. He has over 10 years of experience in game design technology and is a producer and director for Eggstory Creative Production’s 3d animated feature entitled Kung Fu Gecko. He has extensive experience internet technology, patents and trademarks, Scott and his teams in Dallas, Texas (headed by Jeff Dotson) and Seattle, Washington operate under LightSwitch Studio, responsible for implementingGSE’s strategies and plans for it’s social networks and interactive sites and games for children. They are trend forward in their outlook and planning to assure that GSE’s leadership from an internet technology perspective is maintained.
Mr. Wong has a BA Biochemistry, University of Oregon, a PhD Cognitive and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Washington, Special studies, Harvard Medical School, Postdoctoral/Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Guest Researcher, Stanford Medical School.
Diane Elizondo – Event management, services and sales lead, has over 7 years experience in research,marketing promotions and sales at consumer and trade events. Experience includes multi-cultural and multi-platform campaigns, select clients include Sprint®, Verizon®, Disney®, Nike® among others products include mobile phones, web sites, toys and gift, print audio and video.
Charles (Chuck) Borresen CPA, is founder and operator of Mount&Borresen, public accounting firmbased in Minneapolis, Mn. The firm specializes in small to medium size businesses in retail,medical and technology industries.Mr. Borresenwill serve as the lead financial executive for reports and tax purposes.
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