Scott Levy
Since 1996 Scott has provided services and consulting to numerous companies to help them use the Web and mobile devices to improve collaboration. Scott’s clients have lauded his talent for refining ‘real life’ approaches to meeting customer needs, increasing usability, adoption and buy rates. He has the scars and callouses that come from managing software projects of all sizes from concept to fully functioning (and ever- evolving) products.
Prior to founding W3MG, Scott co-founded Pan Atlantic Software, where he raised $2 million to develop eRealize.net, a Web site serving customers in the US and Europe including Jet Blue Airways, the University of Nebraska, Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. Additional clients have included industry-leading creative agencies as well as Fortune 100 companies like Abbott Laboratories, TXU Energy, and Deloitte & Touche.
Prior to working with software, Scott played music professionally with award winning performers. The same passion for excellence, craftsmanship, creation, and “moving a crowd” that informed his music drives his work with W3MG.
Locally Scott has served on the board of a Dallas private school, taught Tae Kwon Do, guest lectured at Southern Methodist University, and coaches several youth sports. He also enjoys the study and practice of a variety of disciplines including music and TaeKwonDo. Other interests include surfing, cycling, and spending time with his two energetic sons.
Personal blog: scottilevy.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/scottilevy
Will Bunker
Will Bunker brings intense curiosity, passion and discipline to any endeavor in which he is involved. Will’s dedication and skill and are not limited to the technical arena; Will is co-founder of the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. In 1996 Will and a partner raised $90,000 from angel investors to start online personals pioneer One-and-Only.com. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In late 1999 they sold Dallas-based One-and-Only for $45 million to Ticketmaster Online/City Search, where it was rebranded Match.com.
Following his exit from Match.com in 2000, Will acquired Click Patrol, a service that managed key word advertising for Overture and others, which he sold to a competitor in 2002. He then moved back to his native Arkansas and acquired an industrial catfish farming operation, which he expanded into a more efficient and profitable business. In 2004 he and Dan Owen formed White Space Ventures.
Will received a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1992. Prior to his career in technology, Will performed in a variety of management assignments around the world for Nelson Bunker Hunt’s international mining group.
Outside of work, Will is a learning enthusiast who buys – and actually reads – dozens of books on any subject of interest, and then proceeds to develop mastery by applying that knowledge to problems that interest him.
Personal blog: http://makermatters.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wbunker