BidZzar is a collaborative commerce solution for the social era.
Founder and CEO: Simon Bull
British born artist Simon Bull founded his own art production and distribution company that grew to 45 employees in Britain and America. In 2009 he began using Social media for his art marketing which led to the founding of Bidzzar along with Randall Swanson and Jacon Perl.
His creative and business accomplishments include The Fine Art Trade Guild Artist Print award for the UK’s best selling printmaker, the US National Association of Limited edition Dealers Print of the Year award in 2004 and 2003. Official artist to the 2002 Winter Olympics and the official artist to Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali.
He lives with his wife and family in Monterey CA.
Randall Swanson, Founder CFO
Born in Walnut Creek, CA and grew up in Fresno, CA. He attained a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language from Fresno State. He helped start a successful ISP in Dallas, TX called On-Ramp Technologies which sold to Verio, Inc. in 1996, Verio itself went on to become a multi-billion dollar success on Nasdaq. Randall had been a very aggressive angle investor focussing on high-tech start-ups from 1997-2004. In 2004 Randall moved to Moscow, Russia with his family to work on a 6 month private consulting project. Since then he has represented Russian artist Victor Lysakov exclusively in North America. in 2009 He co-founded and acts a CFO for BidZzar, Inc. Randall loves his wife and two kids, and he also enjoys traveling, playing golf, and playing chess when he has time.
Jacob Perl CTO
Bio to upload shortly, he's too busy building apps right now...
Additional Board Members:
Tom Keeven
Partner, Co-founder
AKF Partners
Partnership; Management Consulting industry
August 2006 – Present (4 years 2 months)
Member of AKF Partners is an advisory services firm specializing in helping companies grow and scale their technology services, processes and organizations.
VP Operations/ Architecture
eBay
Public Company; eBay; Internet industry
June 2000 – July 2006 (6 years 2 months)
Worked with a great team for six years of upto 250 people who managed a very complex environment composed of 10,000 plus servers 1.5 petabytes of storage and 1.2 billion page views per day.
Jay Landrum
Attorney at Silicon Valley Law Group
Past
Owner at Landrum & Company, Inc.
CEO at ALCiS Health, Inc.
General Counsel, Sr. VP at Media Arts Group, Inc.
Education
Pepperdine University School of Law
Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
Santa Clara University
By making it possible for sellers to share their items with other third party sellers we create the possibility of exponential exposure for sellers' items across Facebook as well as income possibility for the third party.