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Hot Shot boasts a team of outstanding professionals with impressive and wide-ranging backgrounds spanning a broad spectrum of related online applications and from within the visual arts and social gaming arenas.
Hot Shot’s executive team has an outstanding record in idea generation, concept delivery, management performance and profitability. The operating team is backed up by a strong and strategic group of passionate and influential supporters and shareholders.
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Executives | Advisors | Team
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Jeannine Smith | Bio
"Traveling through Bolivia, we visited Maragua, a tiny isolated village where life has not changed substantially for hundreds of years. After an hour or two, the village girls relaxed and allowed their photos to be taken. Then we handed a camera to them, and watched as they experienced the magic and wonder of digital photography for the first time."
Jeannine Smith brings more than 20 years of operation, engineeing, and networking experience to the company. Jeannine Smith was SVP of Operations at Shutterfly from 2005-2007, responsible for printing and manufacturing operations. Previously, she was also Chief Engineering Officer at Shutterfly from 2001-2006.
Prior to Shutterfly, Jeannine spent seven years at Silicon Graphics, where she served as Principal Engineer, designing Internet-based video conferencing and professional film and video applications. Before SGI, Jeannine worked at a number of networking companies, including Ungermann-Bass and Protocol Engines, building routers and designing chips and protocols.
Jeannine earned her BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Dean Jones | Bio
"I had spent months both planning a special surprise present for my fathers 70th and keeping it a secret from everyone close to him (which was no mean feat given what it was). This picture was taken shortly after I completed my speech and announced a surprise 'guest' was about to enter the party. At first my father thought the 'guest' was inside the car... it then sank in that the 'car' was the special surprise guest. The look on my fathers face when he realized what had happened was priceless and topped off a great party and the best day of my life."
Dean Jones brings with him almost 15 years of experience in the online media space, from pioneering efforts in live broadcasting over the internet in the mid 90's, through to being one of the co-founders and former CEO of Ansearch Limited (now Webfirm Group Limited).
His knowledge and expertise covers global business development, online advertising and audience commercialization. He is very active in the online space both as former CEO of 3D web pioneers ExitReality, and as an investor in several emerging technology companies, both listed and privately held and including Hot Shot Media.
A truly global entrepreneur through his ‘Whodeani’ enterprise, Dean has an unrivalled global network of individuals and companies focused in the online media space.
As well as his role advising Hot Shot Media, Dean is Managing Director of The Swish Group Limited (ASX:SWG), an Australian digital media company.
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Mary Min | Bio
"In the summer of 2002, I led a team of 70 students on a trip to Europe as part of a Catholic pilgrimage. At the end of our trip in Croatia, we went to this amazing swimming hole - naturally formed by the multiple waterfalls pouring into one place. One word: paradise."
A veteran of the game industry, Mary Min brings over 12 years of experience working with free to play online games. She is a co-founder/partner of IN Consulting Inc., serves as an advisor to multiple online and social gaming companies, and is a committee member of the F2P Forum, an umbrella organization for free-to-play online game publishers and developers.
Mary has worked in production, development, project management, marketing / business development, publishing, game operations and localization. Her past projects and companies include Outspark (Fiesta Online, Secret of the Solstice), NCONY Enterprise (Pi Story), Joymax (Silkroad Online), Mari Telecom (Archmage, Archspace), Daum Communications (Vital Sign), Lineage II, A3 and Street Jam. She has set up and managed operations in North America for multiple companies. Other experiences include work in mobile gaming contents, webmail services and 3D barcode technology.
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Simon Meadmore | Bio
"We came across these adolescent lions and they looked pretty nervous, I was concerned they didn't know the rule about not eating tourists. Maun Botswana."
Simon is the CEO of The Pancake Parlour Group of Companies – one of Australia’s largest privately owned restaurant chains – and has over 25 years experience in the restaurant business.
Simon is an active participant in the Australian technology sector as an investor, advisor and as underwriter to a number of recent capital raisings by emerging Australian businesses.
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Stewart Bonn | Bio
"I spent 8 hours prior to taking this photo hiking uphill through loose gravel to get to this vista. That is Fitz Roy Peak (11,000ft) in Patagonia, Argentina in the background where we hiked the next day (killer!). As I took this photo I had to concentrate on not falling into the pond. I was so beat."
Stewart Bonn is one of the true pioneers of the computer game industry, leading the industry’s development and commercialization into a viable and expanding economic sector.
He joined Electronic Arts in 1983 as one of its first employees, and produced many of Electronic Arts’ most successful titles during his 12-year career. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Studios, he directed the development of all PC and videogame cartridge games.
In 1999 he joined There Inc., a massively multiplayer Internet services start-up in Menlo Park where he was Vice President, Production. In early 2006, he joined Bix.com as VP, Talent and Co-founder.
Bix.com hosted contests that included "American Idol"-style singing, but ranged far beyond that into comedy, photography, art and writing, before being sold to Yahoo! in January, 2007. He has been advising a range of consumer Internet start-ups since then.
Stewart earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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Tim Huertas | Bio
"This photo shows my first encounter with a waterfall. It was taken with my iPhone on Hawaii's Big Island and reminds me that nature can still surprise me."
Tim Huertas comes to Hot Shot Media having served as Chief Architect of Sequoia-funded visual search engine SearchMe, Inc. He received his degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Central Missouri and has over seven years of professional experience in industries ranging from finance to photo sharing. While at SearchMe, Timothy was responsible for the development of SearchMe's well-known web and web service interface.
Prior to joining SearchMe Timothy was a member of the Emerging Technologies Group at HP-owned Snapfish, one of the world’s largest photo management sites with over 50 million users. Some of his contributions at Snapfish include the site's image editor, text editor and slide show functions, which continue to be used by millions of people across the world.
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Peter Berger | Bio
"This is my favorite view from the back porch of a little house in Colorado, it was the last day of a week of hiking in the woods and late morning wake ups. With the flowers in bloom and the sun shining as we were about to leave, I had to stop and take one last shot."
Mr. Berger is the CEO of Alitora Systems, a software company, founded in 2006, who's semantic technology enables seamless integration of document, data resources and social network information of internal and external data for large to midsized companies. Recently, Alitora established a strategic partnership agreement to commercialize software technologies with The J. David Gladstone Institute at UCSF, which is a private life science research organization that has commercialrelationships with Merck, Five Prime Therapeutics and several other life science companies.
Organizer of the Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group, he has grow the group to the largest group of it's kind on the West Coast. Mr. Berger is also attorney specializing in business development as well as regulation and liability in the biotechnology field, licensed to practice in California, New York and New Jersey.
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