About ZLoop
Team
Jim Bisenius, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jim began forming the idea for ZLoop as a college junior as a result of his increasing interest in software’s potential impact on human relationships and interaction, particularly in connecting and uniting communities. Jim graduated from Westmont College with a double major in Economics and Business and Communication Studies. Jim worked for a variety of different software start-ups prior to ZLoop.
Ian Taylor, CTO/Lead Developer
Ian joined ZLoop in March of 2007, and brings to ZLoop his strength in creating rich, dynamic, and scalable web applications. He came to ZLoop from Kryptiq Corporation and lists Intel among his former employers. Ian is an Oregon native and holds a BS from the University of Oregon. He loves to travel and spent most of 2005 travelling through South America on a shoestring budget.
Farhad Shakiba, Software Engineer
Farhad is the resident BodyBuilder at ZLoop. He graduated from OIT with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering in 2006, and has been living in Portland ever since. He loves the city for the great outdoors (snowboarding during winter and camping during summer). He is one of the awesome developers at ZLoop and his skill in Quake and OpenArena is only matched by his ego :) . Lastly, he thinks dark chocolate is the meaning of life.
Jesse Hassett, Network Architect
Jesse has made a life out of technology and communications. He brings to the table a focus on security and a diverse background in telecom ranging from copper and fiber infrastructure through high end routers, load balancers, security devices and content acceleration. Since building out his first ISP in NY in 1994, and moving to the west coast as part of the infamous dotcom "bubble" Jesse has applied his passion to creating highly available networks that quickly and reliably deliver today's rich content to end users. On the rare occasions he is not locked in a room with servers and routers Jesse prefers to be in Oregon's beautiful forests or at home with his 3 yr old Black-capped Conure where he will often be found drawing or designing new Origami models.
Gary Herbelot, QA Engineer
Gary is from Santa Barbara, California and has been an Oregonian for just over a year now. He is getting used to not pumping his own gas or paying sales tax and so far has found Oregon folks to be very friendly. Gary has been using computers since 1984 and has a Computer Information Systems (CIS) and data communications background from Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) and UCSB. His professional experience includes 17 years of QA work for the medical and software industries. His personal interests include: Music, travel, sports, reading, the outdoors, cooking, short-haired tabby cats and good Mexican food.
Advisors
Bob Jesenik
Mr. Jesenik has 25 years experience in corporate finance and investment management. As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aequitas capital he has provided leadership in structuring and investing the majority of the firm's $1.5 billion in financial transactions since its inception in 1993. Mr. Jesenik's business background includes commercial lending at U.S. Bancorp, operations experience as a VP Finance/CFO in technology and distribution firms over a 10 year period. and participating on numerous advisory engagements and Boards of Directors for Aequitas portfolio companies over the past 14 years. This includes firms primarily in the energy, communications, and manufacturing sectors.
Rick Ifland
Mr. Ifland has over 14 years experience in the information services industry, founding ICS, a background screening and mortgage credit reporting company in 1987. The company grew into the second largest of over 2,000 companies in its industry, employing hundreds of people and processing over 10,000 mortgage applications daily. In 1997, ICS sold to Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF), the world's largest title insurance company. Mr. Ifland remained as President at Fidelity for two years until he decided to enter the private equity investment industry.
Andrew Ferguson
Andrew was the co-founder of SRC Software, specializing in enterprise level budgeting, long-range strategic financial planning, and reporting software for large organizations. Clients included Microsoft, Lockheed-Martin, Harrah’s Casinos, Washington Mutual and hundreds more. SRC had many thousands of users worldwide. SRC accepted a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners in 2002, prior to selling in its entirety for over $100M in 2005. Andrew has been retired since 2004, spending a great deal of time with this family, coaching, providing community service, and investing.
Background
Jim Bisenius began thinking about the idea for ZLoop as a college junior in 2004. Each day Jim interacted in a multitude of different networks; from class to class, from student clubs to school leadership teams then back to his residence hall, all the while trying to stay connected with family, friends, people from church, different projects, companies created in his dorm and a variety of other groups, communities, and networks. During this time, Jim realized e-mail, as the dominant form of interaction, was hopelessly inadequate for the dynamic and collaborative interaction required of him daily. With the world becoming familiar with the rich interaction enabled through the increasing popularity of online communities and collaboration systems, Jim envisioned a mass market tool to give everyone the ability to more accurately replicate their real world interaction online. While working with another software startup, Jim continued to realize such a system would solve a serious need. After 6 months, Jim left to work on ZLoop’s design and development full-time.
ZLoop is now in the process of being released to the world.
Contact
JPB Ventures, LLC
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