- Mel Schrieberg
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Mel Schrieberg is an information technology business leader and entrepreneur best known for his work in co-founding election.com, and for serving as a project leader for the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary,[citation needed] and also for the first global Internet election for the ICANN Board of Directors, also in 2000.
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Early life
Schrieberg is a native of New York City, born in Brooklyn. He went on to earn an undergraduate degree from University Of Rhode Island and an MBA from Farleigh Dickinson University. He also studied business at Columbia University and Harvard University Entrepreneurial Program.
Early business career
Upon graduation from Farleigh Dickinson, Schrieberg went on to work for Xerox,[1] and later ROLM, serving there at the time of its acquisition by IBM. He soon became a General Manager of their New York operating company, and later served as Eastern Region Manager IBM.[2] He subsequently became a Vice President at ADP. Schrieberg was elected Executive Vice President of the Proginet Corporation May 24, 1995, a software company, which achieved record sales in 1997,[3] where he remained until 1999.
election.com
Schrieberg was a co-founder of votation.com in 1999, which later changed its name to election.com. The company managed the Arizona Democratic presidential primary in March 2000, which was won by Al Gore. Schrieberg, who served as the company's President, also oversaw voter registration over the internet, and the one of the first worldwide all internet elections, for the ICANN Board of Directors.[4][5]
SpiralFrog
In January 2007, Schrieberg became interim CEO of SpiralFrog, following the high profile and bitter departure[6] of advertising executive Robin Kent,[7] with its ad-supported free music service not yet launched.[8][9] Many pundits doubted the young company would ever be able to launch its web site, Schrieberg was able to execute a turnaround a the web site launched on September 17 of that year.[10][11]
After the launch of the site in September 2007, Schrieberg spent heavily on pay per click advertising [12] and was stripped of his power in the company.[13] He ultimately resigned in October 2008.
Strategic Concepts Consulting
In 2009, Schrieberg formed Strategic Concepts Consulting.[14]
References
- ^ "Mel Schrieberg". Spoke. http://www.spoke.com/info/p9uz2y/MelSchrieberg.
- ^ "Polyvision Corp". Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.9YKs.htm.
- ^ ALL Business
- ^ "Election.com tells voters no excuses--register online". cnet news. http://news.cnet.com/Election.com-tells-voters-no-excuses--register-online/2100-1023_3-237187.html.
- ^ "ICANN Selects election.com to Conduct One of World's Largest All-Internet Votes". ICANN web site. http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/icann-pr21sep00.htm.
- ^ "Advert-supported music? Spiral Frog struggles, and DRM last rites are read at Midem". Newswireless.net. http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3163.
- ^ "Spiral Frog". The Big Picture. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/08/spiral_frog.html.
- ^ "SpiralFrog says to launch in early '07 despite CEO exit". Reuters. 2007-01-24. http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN2418379120070124.
- ^ "Spiral Frog Inc.". Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.secinfo.com/dUuzd.u1Jc.htm.
- ^ "SpiralFrog Finally Leaps, Hopes To Be Music To Advertisers' Ears". MediaPost News. http://www.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=67512.
- ^ "SpiralFrog offers free songs -- with a catch". LA Times. 2007-09-17. http://www.commercialalert.org/news/archive/2007/09/spiralfrog-offers-free-songs-with-a-catch.
- ^ "Advertising.com invoice image". CNET. 2009-08-11. http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2009/08/10/advertisinginvoice.jpg.
- ^ "How turf wars and miscues crippled SpiralFrog". CNET News. 2009-08-11. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10304157-93.html.
- ^ "Our Team". Strategic Concepts Consulting. http://strategicconceptsconsulting.com/Our_Team.html.
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