Eric Greenspan(co-host)![]() |
Eric Greenspan Make It Work CEO Eric Greenspan is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the computer services industry. Mr. Greenspan began his career at IBM, as an education marketing representative, and was one of the youngest IBMers in history. He started his first company in 1995, also called “Make It Work”. The company grew to become one of the largest Citrix partners in the world, and was awarded with the distinguished status of “Platinum” in 1999. After selling the company in 2000, he then created a new company called Push, Inc. which was named top CRM Application Service Provider (ASP) in the nation by PC/Magazine.In 2001, Mr. Greenspan formed Make It Work LLC, now known as Make It Work, Inc., the Neighborhood Computer Support company which provides onsite tech support in Southern California, Online Help Desk remote support nationwide, and web and social media marketing services.Mr. Greenspan has been profiled by numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Windows2000 Magazine, the Montecito Journal, the Santa Barbara News Press, Pacific Coast Business Times and others.Mr. Greenspan was named a Who’s Who in Technology and made the 40 Under 40 list in the Pacific Coast Business Times and has made semi and finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year categories for Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse Entretech and the Technology Council of Southern California. Mr. Greenspan is on the board of the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and the Technology Council of Southern California and is a member of the Business Leaders Council of the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. |
![]() Mark Sylvester (co-host) |
Mark Sylvester, introNetworks CEO Mark is the CEO and Co-Founder of introNetworks which offers smart social networks that are dedicated to helping people identify, and then make meaningful connections to who and what matters to them in their work and interests. Since 2003, when the company deployed a social network for the world famous TED Conference, the company has successfully created over 275 introNetwork Systems across a customer base that includes such high profile organizations as Adobe, McCann Worldgroup, SONY Pictures, The National Science Teachers Association, NASA, Cisco, HP, Harvard, Brown University, The Kairos Society, Wharton, Xerox and many others.Mark has been on the leading edge of software development for more than twenty years. As a co-founder of Wavefront Technologies, Mark and his team developed software that completely revolutionized the way the world is entertained. He co-designed Wavefront’s flagship product, Advanced Visualizer, which was the first commercial 3D modeling and animation system. Working directly with major Hollywood studios, the company introduced the world to computer-generated animation and received many accolades – including an Oscar for Technical Achievement. Mark was instrumental in growing Wavefront over ten years to a $45 million company.As the liaison between Fortune 500 clients and Wavefront software developers, Mark shared with non-technologists the possibilities of a new breed of software and worked with developers to make clients’ dreams come true. Beyond helping design products that were tailored for the entertainment industry, Wavefront’s technologies revolutionized the design and video game industries as well. Mark’s Blog Follow Mark on Twitter |
![]() Kymberlee Weil (co-host) |
Kymberlee Weil, introNetworks President Kymberlee is the President and Co-Founder of introNetworks and has been focusing on the social networking industry for the past seven years. Her expertise is centered on the strategy of social media and she works with companies all over the world to develop purpose-driven online communities that reach key business objectives. The introNetworks technology she co-developed has won many awards and was recently awarded a patent.Prior to co-founding introNetworks and while earning her MBA at Pepperdine University, her passion for business was sparked. Kymberlee’s expertise in Adobe Flash technology helped her to author two books that shaped the way people use that complex and powerful technology. She was also the Director of the Flashforward Conference, where she experienced first-hand the importance of connections at events and where her ideas on the power of social networking began to crystallize.In addition to running introNetworks, Kymberlee is a nationally recognized speaker, presenting at national and international conferences and leading universities. A lifelong athlete, Kymberlee has achieved two levels of excellence: being named NCAA Woman of the Year and earning a Third Degree Black Belt in Hapkido, a Korean Martial Art. Her passion for the fusion of martial arts and business keep her busy on her personal website, StrategicSamurai.com Follow Kymberlee on Twitter |
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