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Management Team

An experienced team of entrepreneurs, startup specialists, and media and marketing experts founded Wizard Media, LLC™. Our team has ten successful startups under its belt, many with acquisitions by much larger players in the online, technology, franchising and sales arenas.

Stuart Rabkin, President and COO

Stuart has over 16 years of experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, corporate executive and consultant. He has the proven ability to identify and manage opportunities for corporate growth, new business development, strategic marketing, product development, and technical innovation. He has advised senior leaders of Fortune 1000 companies, managed global innovation projects, and has significant experience guiding rapidly expanding organizations. Some of the companies he worked with include: P&G, Sara Lee Corporation, Chiquita, M&M Mars, Kraft, Anthem/Wellpoint and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Stuart holds a BS from The University of Denver.

Chris Nolan, SVP Business Development

Chris is an experienced sales and marketing executive who has served at the president, vice president business development, and vice president sales levels of nationally recognized franchising, advertising, technology and mass communications businesses. He has a history of increasing business and profit growth, maximizing market share and productivity from start-ups to high-profile global enterprises. He has established a strong track record of turning around failing businesses in franchising, while building high-performance teams. Chris has been featured in numerous national business publications including INC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and various trade magazines, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Entrepreneurship Association in Washington D.C.

Bob Gruen, CTO

Bob began his technology career at Procter & Gamble and now has over 17 years of experience in enterprise application development. Bob has a proven track record in architecting and developing enterprise applications for Fortune 1000 companies such as Convergys and Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (now owned by Siemens AG). Bob holds an Associates Degree in Computer Information Systems Programming from Cincinnati Technical College.

Ric Stewart, CMO and VP Content

Ric Stewart is a 20 year veteran video producer and new media pioneer. Ric has written and produced over a dozen short films for festivals, winning The New Orleans Film Festival Award for best 16mm film in 1991. With the focus on multimedia and web broadcasting, Ric managed web broadcasting projects for Apple, Macromedia, Ascend Communications (now Lucent), Telephia (now Nielsen Mobile) and others. Ric also functioned as a producer, merchandising feature film downloads for Movielink (now Blockbuster Online), a joint venture of Sony, MGM, Universal, Paramount and Warner Brothers. Later, he analyzed the video and music download market for EMI Music Marketing before joining Mini Movie Channel in 2007 as Vice President of Marketing. Ric holds a B.A. in Film from UC Berkeley and a JD focused on Digital Entertainment from Tulane Law School.