The Cartfly Management Team
Harlan Lyons, CEO
Harlan Lyons has been building and instilling visionary leadership into startups and corporations for more than 25 years. During his career, he has negotiated key customer agreements with Fortune-500 giants including IBM, Microsoft, Radio Shack, Avnet, Conoco-Phillips and Toshiba. He has worked for telecommunications and technology companies such as US Cellular and Pagemart, implementing revenue-building and growth strategies.
During his tenure as CEO of United Payphone Network, Harlan guided the company from concept to deployment of more than 30,000 payphones nationwide, and successfully implemented an exit strategy through a publicly traded company. As Executive Vice President for Protocall Technologies (OTC: PCLI), he created and executed domestic and international strategies for retail, wholesale, Internet and B2B opportunities. He has served on several corporate, philanthropic and advisory boards, and currently serves on the board of AMBERalert.com. Today, as CEO of Ustrive2, Harlan is tasked to leverage his dynamic range of experience and vision to guide Cartfly to become a major force in social e-commerce.
Tim Lambright, CFO
Mr. Lambright began his career with Navigant Consulting/Peterson Worldwide, developing supply and demand side projection models in addition to performing forensic financial analysis. Timothy later spent time as an independent consultant for clients such as American Mobile Healthcare, Wachovia Information Consulting Group and Midway Entertainment; where he expedited internal audit processes, investigated new market opportunities and collaborated on new product launch, respectively. Mr Lambright then joined Gemstone Communications where he negotiated national advertising campaigns, developed revenue models for business expansion endeavors and facilitated an industry first media audit program for niche publications. Timothy holds degrees in both Finance and Economics from Miami University.
Jim Rodgers, COO/CTO
For the majority of his 20-year career, Jim has specialized in operations and project management for Aerospace companies such as Honeywell and General Electric. Jim handled projects with multi-million dollar budgets, which oversaw the design and production of jet engines. In 2005, Jim founded Turbine Component Solutions, which provided jet engine parts for the aftermarket. Partnering in 2006 with GlobalVantage, an International Aerospace Software Engineering firm, Jim managed the growth to over 120 engineers. Jim has proven ability in taking concepts to market where-ever he has been challenged. Cartfly will greatly benefit from his enterprise knowledge and experience.
Josh Manley, President & Co-Founder
In June, 2005, Joshua Manley decided to try to shake up the world. He and his partner, Bob Schober, saw the huge opportunity at the nexus of the social networks and e-commerce and created Cartfly. He spans six years of experience in sales, marketing and business development while working for Discovertel Communications and Haagen Multi-Media Corporation. Joshua was elemental in securing Cartfly’s seed funding, and his leadership and organizational skills have taken the company to where it is now.
Bob Schober, Cartfly Evangelist & Co-Founder
For the bulk of his career, Bob Schober was a National Sales Manager at TGP. Over nine years there, Bob made an astounding 100,000 cold calls, trained 500 sales people, and wrote the entire sales manual that the company uses to this day. Hit with the entrepreneurial bug in 2003, Bob co-founded Bliss Beverage, makers of the Socko energy drink. Over 18 months, Bliss had expanded its distribution into 20 states and built a stronghold in Utah, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. In June of 2005, Bob decided to aim even higher, and co-founded Cartfly with the aspiration of revolutionizing the e-commerce space.
Kurt Collins, Vice President of Business Development
Combining technical skills developed at MIT and refined as an engineer
at both Silicon Graphics and CNET Networks with a talent for strategy
honed in the business development departments at Photobucket and
Clearspring, Kurt brings a capability-focused strategy to partnership
development. Kurt’s ability to create and maintain strategic
partnerships that empower other organizations to easily integrate
commerce into their social applications will enable Cartfly to offer
value for any company looking to incorporate
Jennifer Martinez, Vice President, Creative Director
Jennifer Martinez has been a Creative Director and Graphic Designer for 15 years, and comes to CartFly with experience in companies ranging from early-stage start-ups to the Fortune 500. Prior to Cartfly, Jennifer was the Creative Director at Photobucket (later purchased by Fox Interactive), led corporate creative services for Tellme Networks (later purchased by Microsoft), was the first Creative Director at Evite, and was at Organic and AOL during the Web’s early years. Jennifer holds a degree in graphic design from CCA.