Jeremy Verba
CEO

Jeremy Verba is responsible for driving corporate direction and overall business strategy of Piczo. With nearly 20 years of experience, Jeremy brings extensive Internet and interactive business execution acumen in media, entertainment, communications and online services to Piczo.

Most recently, Jeremy was general manager and vice president of AOL's Voice Services division, where he and his team created a division with five premium services, totalling over one million subscribers. The stand-alone division was profitable a year ahead of plan and formed the foundation for the recent launch of AOL's Voice over IP service, Total Talk.

Prior to AOL, Jeremy was President and COO of HearMe (formerly Mpath Interactive), a publicly-traded company focused on multiplayer gaming, live online communities and the early VoIP initiatives targeted at both the consumer and carrier markets. Jeremy transformed the company to VoIP focus by shifting revenue sources and reducing expenses, and grew the company from 120 employees to over 270.

Additionally, Jeremy was founder and President of E! Online, one of the first businesses focused on delivering entertainment news and services online. Under Jeremy's leadership, E! Online was profitable in three years. The company broke through many of the initial barriers in the online content space, including live web-casts, major advertising by film studios and television networks, and e-commerce initiatives targeted at the entertainment consumer. E! Online is still the leading entertainment news and information site on the Internet.

Jeremy is originally from Toronto, Canada and is a graduate of MIT and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jim Conning
Founder and CTO

As founder of Funtigo, Jim wrote the proprietary software engine that powers Piczo. Wisdom gained from the Funtigo service led to the launch of Piczo in 2004.

Before Funtigo, Jim was engaged for three years at Charles Schwab as a senior software developer. Jim worked on the Schwab.com online trading website, and took a lead role in various technical initiatives.

Prior to his time at Charles Schwab, Jim participated in Passpoints.com, a dot com era start-up which offered a turnkey online customer loyalty program. Jim served as the lead engineer and built and led the development team that consisted of several engineers.

Before joining Passpoints, Jim was a senior engineer with Oracle Consulting, where he participated in a national performance tuning group that worked on-site at Fortune 500 companies. He also participated in the development and release of the Oracle 8 database server.

Previously, he spent five years in the digital map industry, working on the data and software that is used in vehicle navigation systems. Jim spent most of that time working at NavTeq, which today supplies Yahoo Maps and Google Maps with their mapping data.

Jim grew up in Berkeley, California and has a BS degree from the University of California at Davis.

Chris Seth
Managing Director, Europe

Chris is responsible for the UK and expansion into Europe. Piczo, a social networking site for teenagers worldwide, attracts 10 million unique visitors each month. With over 16 years of managerial experience in digital media and advertising, his career has flourished within the fields of interactive businesses, communications, new media and publishing.

Most recently, Chris was managing director for Richmond Events, which runs strategic business forums across the globe. He was responsible for the UK and European division

Prior to Richmond Events, Chris was media director at BBDO's digital agency Proximity, the first UK agency to integrate interactive, direct and promotional services. While there, he contributed to income growth of over 300% through local and global pitch wins including Emirates, Shell, FT and Save the Children.

Before Proximity, Chris was regional director of the International Herald Tribune, and was responsible for the newspaper's performance in Europe.

Additionally, Chris spent five years in the publishing industry as European sales manager for Time Out magazine. Chris was solely responsible for establishing new companies in Paris and Madrid and also expanded the publishing group with the launch of nine titles

Chris is a graduate of Southampton University and holds a joint honours degree in French and Spanish.

Piczo Board of Directors

Jeremy Verba, CEO

Jim Conning, Founder and CTO

Paul Matteucci, US Venture Partners

Jed Smith, Catamount Ventures

Mark Fernandes, Sierra Ventures