Platform Overview
BuzzMob is a location-based platform that brings social media communication to real-world places and events. It connects with your current location and puts you in touch with the people around you in a real-time, live community. Mobsters within the same location are instantly connected, to talk; share tips, photos, and media; and receive exclusive content from within a digital network. BuzzMob’s real-time social networking platform is changing the way we experience and interact with the everyday world.
Share
We all love to have a voice and be heard, to feel essential to a group. Isn’t that why we share our thoughts and activities via social media in the first place? The problem is that in the fragmented world we live in, how do we get that message to the right people at the right time, so someone sees it… and maybe responds? BuzzMob gets your content to the right people at the right time, whether they’re your ’friends’ or not.
Organize
Wouldn’t it be great if for once your digital life were more organized than your physical life? Does it matter more where content comes from, or what it’s actually about? BuzzMob is solving the social content fragmentation problem via #LocationCuration. We use your location as the primary interest indicator, curate content around that location, and bring it to you in an easy to digest format.
Discover
Consuming social media content is like drinking from a firehose. You are constantly inundated with content, but that content rarely hits you at the right time and place. For example, when you are sitting at a concert, do you want to see pictures of kittens or pictures of what’s happening around you at that moment? BuzzMob allows you to discover the most relevant and actionable content regardless of current activity, even if you are at a cat show.
The Team
Since BuzzMob is all about the importance and power of a community, it’s no surprise that our team at BuzzMob is a community unparalleled.
Two years ago, our founder was sitting in the stands at a Los Angeles Angels baseball game when he had a vision. He imagined this sea of 45,000 strangers all being connected, digitally, to share this experience of the game in unison. Since that day, our goal has remained the same, and our passion to unite a community has spread as the team behind BuzzMob has grown in number.
Our product and service is propelled forward every day by an amazing group of people who constantly pour their hearts and souls into every step of this journey.
Jeff Jackel
Jeff brings a decade of experience building and implementing creative and strategic business models, and managing teams to execute against those objectives. He has birthed and grown number of a exciting companies spanning entertainment, brand marketing, and apparel, including BrightHouse Pictures and Hozell Clothing. Jeff’s focus is building brand value and generating growth through integrated marketing and strategic media solutions.
Shawn Kernes
Shawn brings over 15 years of experience in building and managing teams from technology, to customer service, operations, business strategy, and business development. He has held a wide range of executive roles in various high growth companies including CTO at StubHub, COO at Cash4Gold, and CTO at BeyondTheRack. Shawn breathes startup, he enjoys the highs and lows of starting a company and making it successful.
Edmond Wong
As Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Edmond is able to leverage his expertise in building and operating successful and innovative businesses at scale.
His 15+ years of experience in business development, brand strategy, product development, operational best practices and organizational development allow him to effectively lead the product development, partnership activation & implementation, business strategy and legal areas. Edmond has held various executive level positions in the action sports apparel and sportswear industries.
John Ing
John serves as BuzzMob’s Chief Financial Officer. He is a seasoned business strategist with over 15 years experience in investment banking and corporate finance. His focus on sell-side advisory of established middle-market companies and capital raising for start-up ventures positions him well in his current role at BuzzMob. In analytical, dealmaking, and managerial roles, he has successfully achieved client liquidity or raised capital totaling several hundred million dollars during his career.
Investors
Craig Cogut founded Pegasus in 1996 and is the Chairman and President. Mr. Cogut is a member of the firm’s Compliance Committee and chairs the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mr. Cogut has over 30 years of private equity investing, complex financial restructuring and legal advisory experience. From 1990 to 1995, he was a founding partner and senior principal of Apollo Advisors, L.P. In 2008, Mr. Cogut was awarded the New York League of Conservation Voters’ Corporate Pioneer Award. He serves on the Board of Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability. Mr. Cogut is a Trustee of Brown University, Chairman of the External Advisory Board of the Brown University-Veterans Administration Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine and Chairman of The Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. He also serves on the boards of Human Rights First, The Gettysburg Foundation, The McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University and The R20 Regions of Climate Action. He also is member of the Executive Council of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. He also is co-founder and Chairman of The Polyphony Foundation, an organization that creates equal opportunities for Arab and Jewish Israeli youth through innovative classical music education, focusing on leveling the playing field for Arab communities so as to enable mixed Arab and Jewish musical interaction at the highest level. In doing so, Polyphony seeks to break stereotypes, promote coexistence, and uplift the Galilee towards becoming a hub for culture, music, and the arts. Mr. Cogut is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School.