Eric Barlund – Advisor
Previously Vice President central region of Nolet Spirits USA, Ketel One Vodka from 2000 to 2004. Under Mr. Barlund’s leadership, Ketel One Vodka grew to the second largest imported Vodka Brand in the Midwest region. In 2001, Mr. Barlund successfully introduced Ketel One Citron. From 1998 to 2000 Mr. Barlund was regional manager of Ketel One in 9 Midwest states with gross annual sales of $66 million. From 1989 to 1998 Mr. Barlund was district manager for Judge & Dolph LTD, a midwest distributor representing a large spirit portfolio including Allied Domecq, Sidney Frank, Grant and Sons, Barton Brands, Diageo and Nolet Spirits. Prior to becoming district manager at J & D, Mr. Barlund’s experience included merchandising, marketing and management of key accounts. Mr. Barlund has a BA in Communications and English from Indiana University.
Les Borsai – Advisor
Mr. Borsai is the CEO of Gridmob. After nearly two decades in various facets of the music industry Mr. Borsai founded Gridmob. Gridmob is a mobile application company that, while a start-up, boasts two top selling applications in the iPhone app store and more on the way. “Funny Call”, a voip app that allows the customers to add vocal effects in real time while making voip calls is a very successful freemium model with a storefront to sell additional minutes. “iOKi” is a franchise game, combining the best of music and gaming into an interactive, social singing game with storefront of additional songs for sale. The highly acclaimed “Lady Gaga iOKi” and “Jason Derulo iOKi” are the first two in a planned series of branded and generic “iOKi” applications, with new releases coming soon. We continue to build our storefront of additional iOKi songs as a result of licensing agreements with all the major music publishers and a number of record labels.
Prior to founding Gridmob Mr. Borsai was the owner of Modern Artist Management. MAM provided management and licensing expertise for various recording artist in the music industry. Mr. Borsai honed his skills while working as a manager for Bill Silva Management.
Mr. Borsai began his career acting as a talent buyer for Avalon Attractions one of the premier concert promotion companies before becoming Director of Tour Marketing at MCA Universal.