| Name | Title | Contact Details |
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Prasanna Prasad |
Chief Technology Officer | Profile |
Founding partner, Dave Wilson, owned and operated his first Ford Dealership in 1977. As a new Ford dealer his main focus to drive customers to his dealership in the small town of Preston, MD was to use effective marketing. With only traditional advertising and marketing tools at his disposal, he was able to quickly turn Preston Ford into a top competing Ford dealership in his region (notably breaking the Top 100 Ford Dealership in the Nation before the internet surge). Fast forward to 2009, Dave made a commitment to drive Internet business for his Automotive Group and become a real contender. He brought in other iFrog Digital Marketing Founder, Brent Durham, to head up his Internet initiative. Over the next couple of years they were able to break sales records, grow a strong Internet presence, and master the basics of Automotive Digital advertising and marketing. After working with several other Automotive Digital Advertising and Marketing Agencies, they decided to bring everything in house. Doing so allowed them the freedom to take their digital advertising and marketing to a whole new level and resulted in the best year over year sales increases in the history of Preston Automotive Group. This led to the creation of iFrog Digital Marketing in order to help automotive dealerships beat their competition and so that both Brent and Dave could pursue their passion of advertising and marketing.
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners, including Akuna`s CEO Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm`s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and Boston. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company`s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna`s growth profile is ahead of us.
Gabriel Marketing Group is a boutique marketing and integrated communications firm 100% focused on high-growth technology companies. At GMG we focus on helping disruptive technology companies tell the right story to help them grow fast. We do that by taking all the secrets, tools of the trade and brainpower that we`ve acquired and honed over the years in the technology marketing sector to help your business, old or new, get on the right path with the right message. Whether you`re launching a new product, rebranding an old one or need to put a new twist on your brand, we help you manage everything, from strategic positioning and planning all the way down to your day-to-day marketing tasks. From market strategy and public relations to brand creation, social footprint and interactive services, we`re dedicated to helping high-growth tech companies transform their business and, in turn, the way the world works. Our clients have appeared everywhere and in some of the industry`s most widely read publications like on Mashable, the cover of InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, eWeek, and in more specialized rags like Network World, University Business, CRM Magazine, 1to1 Magazine, Mobile Enterprise, and countless others.
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