Stephen Pierce
Entrepreneur, 34, CEO Curbanix, Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://curbanix.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Real Estate, Retail |
| Skills: | AJAX, Architecture, Business, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Flash, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Javascript, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, PHP, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Rails, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web design, Windows |
| Next step: | Growth funding for Curbanix |
| Location: | Battle Ground |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Starting a company, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | adobe, advertizing, business development, ceo, corporate communications, curbanix, E-Commerce, flex, founder, funding, growth, Internet, marketing, president, project managment, seed, silverlight, start up, wealth |
| Schools: | Art Institute of Portland |
FEATURED STARTUP
Curbanix
Curbanix
Curbanix delievers an Enterprise Class Rich Internet E-Commerce Experience with a social network of buyers and sellers.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
FULL BIO
Stephen Pierce is the Founder, President and CEO of Curbanix, Inc. Stephen’s leadership, technology insight and operational expertise in marketing & advertizing have led him to architect Curbanix with the vision to be the innovative leader in free ecommerce. His success and experience in working with global industry leaders and enterprises will be key in ensuring the company’s growth and shaping its diverse culture for the future.
Prior to creating Curbanix in 2008, Stephen was Project Manager for CB Richard Ellis, Corporate Communications and Marketing Team – Americas. During his time at CBRE, Stephen was responsible for Business Development, Enterprise Software Development and served on the America’s Executive Committee to identify best practices and investigate new technologies. In 2005 Stephen was awarded the companies honorary and distinguished Ambassador Award – The highest award given in the company out of 35,000 employees.
Before joining CB Richard Ellis, Stephen served and the Product Manager and Sales Coach at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In 2004 Stephen received several awards for innovation, and raised sales at Adobe over $2,000,000.00 in 6 months as a sales coach (7% increase), and went on to teach Adobe Sales personal the skill set needed to be world class sales professionals.
In his early career, Stephen worked for ShopallAmerica, Inc, a marketing, advertizing and sales company that provided ecommerce solutions to small business, chambers and business associations. Stephen was accredited as being the top producing Territory Sales Manager, and went forward to work closely with the CEO to develop unique advertizing programs to strengthen its presence in key markets.
Stephen is a frequent speaker at many information technology and marketing events, and attended the Art Institute of Portland for Media Arts & Computer Animation. His experience with technology and business development makes Stephen one of the most effective hybrids in business today fully capable of growing and sustaining the vision of Curbanix.
EDUCATION
| University: | Art Institute of Portland |
| Time period: | 1999 - 2003 |
| Degree: | Media Arts, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | Pending |
