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Led by highly experienced internet and entertainment professionals, BubbleUp, Ltd. is an internet-based digital media management company offering the music industry an array of proven technology-driven revenue options designed to add value to the artist, label, management and fan experience. The founders of BubbleUp started with the vision of helping artists grow their audiences and increase revenue by leveraging the work that had been done with one of the best pioneers in the music business. Today, BubbleUp’s solution is a reality and is successfully delivering products and services via the internet to thousands of consumers.

Coleman Sisson
Chairman and CEO

Coleman has a BS degree in Data Processing and Quantitative Analysis from the University of Arkansas. He has over 27 years experience in the high-tech industry and has worked with Jimmy Buffett since 1989. He has held President and Vice President positions in several public companies including Liberate, CyberSafe, Powersoft and Compaq Computer Corp. Mr. Sisson is the senior technology adviser to the Buffett organization and in this capacity has created highly successful products and services driving strong, recurrent revenues. It is his vision to bring these solutions to other Artists that underpins the BubbleUp platform.

Lee Totten
Vice President, Development & Design

Lee has spent the past 10 years as a professional musician. He is a voting member of the Grammy’s (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) and a songwriting member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). He has performed over 1000 shows nationwide, appearing with acts such as Everclear, Third Eye Blind and Barenaked Ladies and his music is available on iTunes, Walmart.com, SonyConnect and Napster. He first utilized the internet to connect with and grow his own fan base and subsequently applied those lessons to the websites of fellow musicians. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Communications from Western New England College.

Mike Newman
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Mike has been working with organizations to design, develop and manage internet marketing solutions for the past 14 years. Before joining BubbleUp, Mike was the Managing Director of an internet marketing agency based in Houston, TX, helping companies such as Burlington Resources, Reliant Energy and Choicepoint increase revenues, decrease operating costs and deepen customer relationships. Mike has held management positions with CCH Incorporated, Vanstar Corporation, Arthur Andersen, Reliant Energy and Cardinal Health. He has experience on both the agency and the customer side of internet marketing solutions and brings this unique perspective to the BubbleUp team. Mike’s passion is to take his experience in internet marketing and put it to work for each BubbleUp customer. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Texas A&M University

Mikhail Kozorovitskiy
Senior Systems Architect

Mikhail has been programming since a very early age and started designing online applications in high school. He brings with him the knowledge of enterprise scale application design and the ability to utilize resources from the open source community. Prior to joining BubbleUp, he designed custom web applications for Student Life, RealtySouth, Rainbow Technology and The Birmingham News. At BubbleUp, Mikhail has developed key technology platforms that allow us to provide better and more efficient service to our clients.

Brandon Valentine
Senior Systems Administrator

Brandon currently balances somewhere between young, agile hacker and grizzled, old UNIX admin by shaving the occasional UNIX beard when it sneaks up on him . He comes to BubbleUp from a long career in the academic world where he spent many years supplying computational structural biologists and other scientists with a high performance computing environment. His many concurrent years of work "on the side" in the web application and hosting business have become his full time focus at BubbleUp where he is in charge of systems administration and doubles as a software developer.

Jennifer Balzer
Developer

Jen has been providing effective and attractive marketing solutions to companies in the entertainment, retail and tourism industries for over 12 years. Utilizing an extensive background in graphic design, photography and advertising, she successfully implemented inventive design strategies to maximize results for her clients. At BubbleUp, Jen has added her diverse experiences to the team, generating creative design for our customers. Jen holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, with Honors, from the University of Oregon.

Jeremy Holland
Developer

With experience in video production, audio engineering, software development, and graphic design, Jeremy has been utilizing his wide range of skills to generate creative and original internet content for several years. A resident of Nashville, TN, Jeremy maintains close ties to the entertainment industry and is constantly looking for and learning how to implement the "next big thing" in web development, dedicated to being on the cutting edge of digital innovation. This, and his status as a "jack-of-all-trades", have made him a valuable member of the BubbleUp Team.

James Voss
Developer

James started off in telecommunications systems in 1970 where he worked in the installation division of AT&T as a hardware installer and moved into software as the systems became digital. After teaching software maintenance and trouble shooting techniques on telecommunication switches for NEC, America he moved into large distrubuted business systems and worked on the first large scale distributed corporate tax accounting system designed to be run on PCs and centralized servers. His language of choice now is Flash ActionScript with PHP for server side processing. Given the chance, he'll often sneak off an go sailing or hide out and play blues guitar.

Latisha Nugent
Developer

During her college years Latisha has worked on many php open and closed source projects. Now at BubbleUp, she is fundamental in the development and in the servicing of our next generation commerce system.

Riley Sisson
Developer

Riley is a student at the University of North Texas majoring in Physics and Computer Science. During summer breaks and weekends Riley develops software for BubbleUp. He is proficient in Java, PHP, and he has a hot girlfriend and a nice car. Plus he's taller than his dad, which isn't saying much.

Ryan Edgell
Developer

Ryan has been working with companies to design and develop web solutions for the past seven years. For the last four years he has spent his time focusing on e-commerce and internet marketing. Through the use of flash, php, java, and more Ryan has quickly become an integral part of the BubbleUp team.