Calvin Wong - ICE Lounge Media, Inc. - - WOW
after RS OS will be 2.2M with a 50M AS.... could end up being a monster...
Founder and CEO
www.iceloungemedia.com
Calvin is currently the CEO and co-founder of ICE Lounge Media, Inc., a New York based digital media technology startup focused on building gamified social networks for like-minded communities. Calvin was Chief Operating Officer for Appssavvy Inc., connecting brands to the right audience of leading web and mobile social applications, where he help grow the startup to an enterprise business reaching 100 million uniques and 1 billion impressions per month. Calvin led corporate strategy and annual planning, product development, sales planning, client account management, legal, creative services and traffic departments. As a member of the executive management team, Calvin helped raise venture capital financing from True Ventures, New York Times, and Scott Kurnit. Top publisher partners include: LivingSocial, Zynga, Playfish, Playdom, and NBC. During Calvin’s tenure, over 300 integrated brand advertiser campaigns were executed and revenue increased 600%.
Calvin also co-founded Community Connect Inc., CCI (Investors: Comcast, Sandler Capital, Jump) in 1996 and grew the company to be a leading online publisher targeting various niche markets. CCI’s sites – AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com FaithBase.com and GLEE.com collectively generated over 1 billion page views each month and was one of the Top 25 highest trafficked network of sites on the Internet. Calvin served 12 years at Community Connect in various executive roles of sales and marketing, operations, and business development. In April 2008, CCI was acquired by Radio One Inc. (NASDAQ: ROIA) the fifth largest radio company in the U.S. Calvin holds a BA from New York University Leonard N. Stern Business School.
Calvin is married, has two kids, and lives in New Jersey. Calvin also serves as advisor/ board member to several tech companies and startups.
