Paul Melcher
An Innovative thinker with combined expertise in operations, finance, sales and business development, that has a proven track record in successfully establishing start-ups and growing companies.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.zymmetrical.com |
| Industries: | Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | Business, English, French, HTML / CSS, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Sales, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | content, creative, digital, distribution, entrepreneur, fonts, international, Internet, licensing, marketplace, media, microstock, midstock, photo, Photography, publishing, ugc, user generated, vector, video, visionary, visual, web |
FEATURED STARTUP
Zymmetrical.com
Zymmetrical.com
Zymmetrical is the first user generated marketplace for visual arts.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Zymmetrical.com, New York/Hamburg. |
| Position: | Co-Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer |
| Description: | Started up a company specialized in digital content fulfillment (fonts, video, photography, graphics) of User Generated content. Developed marketing plans, collateral and sales strategy and controlled budget. Made key decisions on software to minimize cost and maximize workflow.
Minimize costs resulting in company profitable within 18 months Investigated multi level investor communications Negotiated major supplier agreements and increased content supply 10x over a year. |
| Employer: | Rex USA, New York, USA |
| Position: | CEO |
| Description: | Photo Licensing Company
Established New York based North American headquarters after a successful multi million dollar acquisition of a competing company. Supported deal negotiation, oversaw and managed integration, build forecast and budget plan, hired finance and sales staff. |
| Employer: | CompassMedia, New York/Munich |
| Position: | CEO |
| Description: | Software Development Company
CompassMedia is a multinational company offering a one stop shop for photo professionals, aggregating multiple visual content providers into one distribution channel. Build sales, marketing and operational USA build-up for a Germany-based 2 year old company. |
| Employer: | Digital Railroad, New York/Seattle |
| Position: | VP of sales |
| Description: | Software, SaaS Company
Created and implemented worldwide sales and budget strategy for photography SaaS Company. Created a network of national and international sales executives. Registered members grew 60% in less than 7 months in 55 countries. Personally signed marquee clients (NBC, ABACA, New York Times). Heavily contributed in product development as well as marketing short and long term strategic decisions. |
| Employer: | Hachette Filipachi Photo Group, New York |
| Position: | Director, North America |
| Description: | Managed sales, operations, production and editing for celebrity and news content distributor. Responsible for increased market penetration, sales and content development.
Headed the integration initiative of numerous prestigious agencies such as Gamma, Rapho, TOP into one successful hub. Doubled revenues on the US market in less than a year while increasing production of content value for all international markets. |
| Employer: | Abaca USA, Inc., New York |
| Position: | President |
| Description: | Designed, created and launched North American sales and marketing platform. Increased revenues three fold in the course of one year. Hired and trained sales and production teams. Cemented key corporate relationships (Knight Ridder Tribune, PA photos, Los Angeles Times). |
| Employer: | ImageDirect, Inc., New York |
| Position: | Executive Vice-President/Partner |
| Description: | Spearheaded the most successful digital photo agency launch ever, both in market share and name recognition, garnering 2,000% above former licensing revenues within the first year. Increasing sales revenues by 150% in the second year. Instrumental in its acquisition by Getty Images in a multi million dollar deal. |
| Employer: | London Features International, New York |
| Position: | Director of Operations |
| Description: | • Transitioned a noted celebrity photo agency from analog to digital sales.
• Implemented 24-hour scanning operation to provide digital image archiving, retrieval and client fulfillment. • Upgrading to electronic distribution increased overall revenues by 20 % within four months |
| Employer: | Corbis Images, New York |
| Position: | Manager, International Services |
| Description: | • Selected to create new divisional international department
• Created fully operational department including budget, tracking tools, collection operation and International rights management • Identified new partners in major overseas markets and maintained administration of pre-existing sub licenses • Conceived new International digital only business model. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | Named one of the “50 most influential people in photography” by American Photo magazine. |
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Picnik
Award-winning online photo editor that gives users fast, easy access to powerful photo editing tools from any computer platform on any Internet browser. Picnik is the default editor on Flickr and Pho...
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Lightbox Photo Gallery Software
Lightbox Photo Gallery Software provides an affordable solution for photographers, artists and artisans to display and sell their work online
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Lightmediation
Lightmediation is an on-line photo stories agency, enabling photographers to get more out of their images and sell them to daily or periodic international publications.
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Blurb
Blurb is a startup that allows anyone to create customized books (as in, a real, tangible book that you can hold)
