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, CIO
Sean has over 18 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 health care 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.

ADVISORS

John Santoro
John is a photo technology veteran who has been integrally responsible for the development of many exciting products since the popular onset of digital photography. At Apple he was the first product manager on iPhoto taking it from early development to market introduction. At Lexar he drove the development of the award winning Image Rescue 3 and various additional professional photo products. Before joining Apple he was a photographer with United Press International, earning publication in many major titles such as Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and Skiing. Santoro holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and now manages the professional photography product line at Lexar.

Bob Goldstein
Bob has guided hundreds of businesses through the transition from traditional to digital imaging. He was founder and president of ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, California, where he developed businesses in high volume image scanning, digital retouching, QTVR services, stock photo databases and digital distribution networks, fine art digital printing, interactive media projects, web site design, and digital photo studios. He then became president of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital imaging software. He was a senior analyst with the Future Image Report and has consulted with such companies as Eastman Kodak, Apple and HP. Bob is the co-author of the book Going Visual and is the CEO of Apeer, the all-in-one group communication and collaboration application for digital media.

Carrie Wiley
Carrie has been designing experiences for new products for over 12 years. After getting her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art, she worked as Creative Manager for an R&D subsidiary of Levis to design the website and user experience for mass customized clothing. She then worked as Director of Product Design for RadioAMP, a startup that brought streaming audio tuners to portals and websites like AltaVista and BarnesandNoble.com in the wake of Napster’s demise and before iTunes took off. Carrie also worked at Idealab, where she was the Product Manager on Picasa (later acquired by Google) as well as helped created and incubate several other business ideas. After Idealab she worked as a consultant to HP and worked as the VP of Products for Preclick continuing to design digital photo software for private label use by Wal-Mart, Costco and others. Carrie is now trying her hand at designing a virtual 3D online social network for hangout.net as their Sr Director of User Experience where she is combining her talents into one immersive, media and brand rich experience for teens and college aged folks.