EXECUTIVE PROFILES

BrightQube’s success is attributed to a strong leadership and managerial team comprised of highly experienced experts with an extensive background in the photography, new media and marketing industries.

Lee Corkran, Founder and CEO
Lee has worked in the imaging business for over 20 years, from decorated combat photographer for the US military to professional photographer for Corbis to running product development at start-up internet imaging companies and major corporations. His background includes: Advisor & VP of Products at online imaging start-up Digital Railroad; Experience Architect and a Program Manager for HP; Head of Product Development at Pixology, a UK-based imaging software start-up; Senior Producer for Yahoo!; Director of Product Management at PictureIQ, an Adobe Ventures start-up, and Director of Interactive Content at Kodak. He also conceived and patented the Kodak PhotoQuilt Web application, cornerstone of Kodak’s Millennium marketing campaign for year 2000 and winner of the Rochester Addy award.

Sean Davidson, VP Engineering and Technology
Sean has over 17 years of experience in information technology, including systems development and integration, networking, databases, security and management. He co-founded, grew and sold his business (education.org) to Monster.com. Before co-founding Education.org, Sean was Divisional VP of the Internet Systems Solutions National Practice of over 70 consultants for the nation's largest healthcare informatics consultancy. In his earlier days, he developed 4D particle tracking algorithms to trace blood flow vectors through experimental medical devices for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, optimized code for vector processing on the Cray YMP-C90 supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and developed a natural language database interface to state-wide EMS data for the Center for Emergency Medicine. He earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Billy Fowks, VP of Web Development
Billy was Technology Director at HUGE, an internet design and development agency in New York City, where he oversaw a development team and was responsible for delivering the technology behind all of HUGE's client engagements. Notable client work includes Jetblue, Ikea, Atlantic Records, Smithgroup Architecture and Disney's family.com. Billy has also been the senior web developer at multimedia portal Heavy.com, and a software engineer at Wind River Systems.

Paul Ryall, VP of Content Development
Paul is a seasoned marketing executive with an entrepreneurial spirit and a successful track record in growth initiatives for stock photography businesses. As Vice President of Marketing for Super Stock, Inc., Paul managed the re-branding of SuperStock’s UK subsidiary, the development and promotion of their new Royalty Free brand and the branding and launch of their image-subscription service. Paul was founder and CEO of the Range Pictures Ltd, a UK business acquired by Bill Gates’ Corbis Corp. Paul built Corbis UK’s Sales and Marketing operation and later developed and implemented Corbis Corp’s first worldwide marketing plan. Paul most recently was VP of Marketing at online photo archive and hosting company Digital Railroad.

Sharon Tczap, VP of Marketing
Sharon is an experienced customer-focused marketing executive with a proven ability to create cutting edge programs, identify/initiate new opportunities for revenue growth, anticipate market evolution and build highly dedicated key relationships with leading publications, professional photographers and renowned photographic schools. She has spent over 20 years in worldwide marketing for Eastman Kodak holding key positions in all marketing disciplines. As an independent consultant, Sharon’s clients were predominantly in the photographic industry building new marketing programs or with start up ventures where she focused on building marketing organizations and go-to-market strategies and programs.

Phil Ahern, VP of Sales
Phil has over 10 years international sales management experience in the stock photography industry in the both the US and UK markets. Most recently he served as the Sales manager at Punchstock/Getty Images where he led a team that grew the business into the leading distributor of RF content in the US market. Prior to that Phil was the Commercial manager at DK images where he oversaw the sales and marketing of DK content worldwide and grew revenues in excess of 120%. Phil brings an entrepreneurial spirit, a deep knowledge of the stock photography industry and an ability to reach and service clients to drive revenues.