Martin Heller
Chairman
Martin has been a software developer, writer, and consultant since the 1980s. He was most recently Vice President of Education and Technology at Alpha Software, and prior to that ran his own firm for 25 years and co-founded PC Pitstop.
Martin has a Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University and a B.A. in Physics and Music from Haverford College. He has written half a dozen books, hundreds of magazine and web articles, a dozen PC software packages, and half a dozen Web applications.
Martin is also an ardent musician, singer, photographer and videographer.
Ian Brower
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder
Ian has over 30 years of experience in advertising. His career has taken him from Johannesburg to London, Brussels, and Dublin, where he was Executive Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather.
During that time he has worked on many large global accounts, including, amongst many others, BMW, Swatch, Perrier, Vodafone, Cadbury, Kraft International, Ford and Barclays Bank.
His work has won many globally recognized awards, including, Clios, Sharks, Loeries and at the New York and Cannes festivals. But perhaps his most important campaign was done for a referendum in South Africa, which proved to be the first step towards dismantling apartheid.
His writing has not been confined to advertising, having contributed to two photographic books, both on football in Africa.
David Copithorne
CMO
David has more than 25 years of general management experience in technology and marketing services. He is a former CEO of Porter Novelli, one of the world’s ten largest public relations firms, and before that was co-founder and CEO of Copithorne & Bellows Public Relations. Most recently, at Aquarius Advisers LLC, he has consulted with numerous venture-backed technology companies, and he is a founder and advisor to Aquarius Video LLC, a video production services company. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Global Health Media Project, a non-profit that develops web-based training videos for health workers in developing countries. David graduated from Harvard in 1975 and began his career as a business journalist covering the U.S. government’s antitrust cases against AT&T and IBM.
Dan McDonald
Chief Technology Officer
Dan leads the company’s software development organization and is responsible for the overall architecture and delivery of the Tubifi platform.
His career started in 1992, before many such companies were even born.
Working in the early days of Internet web development, Dan has steered development and engineering in a wide variety of technologies while being at the forefront of software methodology.
At Fidelity Investments, his team received a patent for their work in cyber security (US7676841B2). At VeriSign, he transformed technology of a SaaS platform, which resulted in a successful product launch.
Dan has run development teams at successful Pre-IPO software companies like Intralinks who were subsequently able to IPO as a result (NYSE:IL), as well as other early stage software startup companies including most recently, CTO at Take the Interview, a SaaS based video platform for interviewing candidates.
Dan holds a BA from Florida International University and is a die-hard Miami Dolphins fan.
Micha Barnum
Vice President, Business Development
Micha develops strategic relationships with stock video, audio, and graphics providers, technology partners, and agencies.
He has over 15 years working in the media, technology and finance industries. With Avid Technology, the leader in video and audio production tools, he executed a game-changing stock footage marketplace business model with leading stock footage companies. He drove the implementation of Avidâ’s first ever subscription revenue model involving several SaaS components. Micha drove various other innovative solutions for the media creation space in collaboration with leading industry technology partners and the MIT Media Lab.
Previously he held various positions in Sales, Marketing, Finance and M&A with GTECH and Nuance, leaders in the gaming and speech recognition industries.
Micha holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and BS in Finance from Florida Atlantic University.
Nicholas Brower
Head of Creative
Nic heads up the creative department for Tubifi and oversees the video editing. He has a really keen eye for talent and will be responsible for assembling our Creative Network.
Coming to Tubifi based on what he recognized was an unbelievably good, simple idea – that its combination of technology and creativity would change the way content is created.
Nic has always had a passion for film, music videos and the visual arts in general. Prior to Tubifi, he ran his own business, Arcane Media Solutions, which was an all-in-one creative production house.
Before that Nic performed work for one of Ogilvy & Mather’s biggest clients in Dublin and has created mood videos and demo reels for many other top agencies.
Nic got his start as an Art Director designing content for some of the top hotels and nightclubs in Dublin and Paris.