About Us
Marc Parrish, Co-Founder & CEO
Marc has spent a career innovatively marketing products online. Prior to StockphotoPro, Marc was Vice President of Marketing at Jigsaw, a start up that competed with Acxiom, Dunn and Bradstreet, and Experian by sourcing Business Card data from a worldwide community. Marc has also been the VP of Marketing for Capcom, one of the largest video game publishers, and held management positions at Palm (palmOne), Egghead.com and Onsale.com where he ran large Direct Marketing programs. Marc holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.
Kinya Horikoshi, Co-Founder
Kinya has an extensive career in the Photographic Content production and distribution business, as well as the International Entertainment business over the last past 15 years. Kinya was the Executive VP of Photonica/Iconica/amana where he developed the brand equity of Photonica and Iconica as an international destination for sophisticated high end stock photography. The brands were sold to Getty Images in 2006. Previously, he was Manager of Business Development at Walt Disney in Tokyo. Kinya holds a degree in Corporate Law from Keio University and an M.B.A. from The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.
Charles Dupin de Saint Cyr, Co-Founder
Charles prides himself in mastering the technology side of marketing. Prior to StockphotoPro, Charles was Director of Marketing at Jigsaw where he worked on traffic acquisition, and search engine optimization. As a Marketing Manager at Palm (formerly palmOne) he was responsible for the company's various email marketing programs. Charles holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University.
Board of Directors
Rick Magnusson, Private Venture Capital Investor
Rick Magnuson is a private venture capital investor focused on emerging growth companies at the seed or start-up stages. Prior to focusing on direct private venture investments, Rick spent 14 years with Menlo Ventures where he focused on investments in companies in the computer software and information services industries. He currently serves on the boards of a number of private and public companies. Rick holds MBA, JD and BA degrees from Stanford University.
David Westendorf, VP of Business Development, Flock.com
As VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Flock, David is responsible for the well-being of all Flock's corporate friends. Prior to Flock, he ran Kodak Imaging Network's worldwide partnerships group. He was also General Manager of Palm's Palm.Net service and worked for Chiat/Day Advertising and Sprint.
Board of Advisors
James Joaquin, Venture Partner
James Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980's, James co-founded Clearview Software while still a computer science student at Brown University. The applications company was acquired by Apple's Claris division and James later spent six years with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business development management roles. James co-founded and headed business development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online (NYSE: TWX). After that successful acquisition, James was President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service and led the Ofoto team from the company's early beginnings through the successful sale to the Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK). James then ran Ofoto as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan. Most recently James served as President and CEO of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service providing consumers an easy and convenient way to transfer money across countries and currencies.
Ken Wirt, Vice President Consumer Marketing, Cisco Systems
Ken is responsible for partnering with Cisco, Scientific Atlantic, and Linksys marketing teams in the creation and implementation of Cisco's consumer marketing strategy. This includes developing an overall corporate brand architecture and keeping a pulse on the consumer to develop the most effective marketing and messaging strategies for Cisco overall. Ken has over twenty years of marketing experience with a strong background in developing new consumer electronic categories. He led marketing for one of the first home computers at Atari, introduced the first CD-ROM-based video game system at NEC, headed marketing for the first PDA (Newton) at Apple, launched the first portable MP3 player (Rio) at Diamond Multimedia, and was CEO of the first indie music recommendation web site (Riffage). Most recently, Ken was SVP Worldwide Marketing at Palm where he developed the first consumer PDA (Zire), the first hard-drive based multimedia PDA (LifeDrive), and launched the second generation of Treo smartphones with many of the world's leading service providers. Ken received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA in The Psychology of Kinetic Media from the University of Michigan.
