Mr. Bender has established himself as an industry leaderthrough his experiences at media companies across broadcast, digital, and mobileplatforms.  Throughout his career,Mr. Bender has a proven track record of generating revenue across these multimedia properties.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Bender was the VicePresident of Break Media’s East Coast Sales Team.  He was instrumental in building, developing, and trainingthe East Coast Sales Team which generated record revenue growth for Break Media’sonline properties.  Mr. Bender establishedkey relationships with Fortune 500 marketers that wanted to target young menwhile at Break Media.

Before joining Break Media, Mr. Bender was responsible forgenerating ad sales revenue for ABC Television Network’s emerging mediaplatforms such as ABC.com, ABCNews.com, Oscar.com as well as monetizing fullepisodes of ABC’s Network programming.

Prior to working at ABC Television Network, Mr. Bender wasin charge of building and generating awareness of Univision’s online propertiesthat targeted Hispanics.  Hecreated partnerships with marketers across various industries such as telecom,liquor, automotive, and pharmaceutical. 

Beginning in 1998, Mr. Bender was integral in the creationand development of the global sales team within the successful start-upenterprise, StarMedia Network.  AsVice President of the Business Solutions Group, he delivered custom solutions towireless carriers and other enterprises looking to create engaging experiencesfor their respective consumers.

Mr. Bender was born in Miami, Florida and currently residesin New York City.  He graduated fromYale University with a B.A. in Economics and is actively involved as a YaleUniversity class officer.  

Peter has had a passion for technology since his first computer, a Commodore 64 at the early age of eight years. Peter belongs to one of the first generations that grew up with computers and the internet as mainstream technologies. He mastered several programming languages throughout his undergraduate studies.

A technology evangelist that firmly believes in the power of technology that lowers the barriers for people of all walks of life to access knowledge and information in addition to bringing the global community closer.

At the age of 22, (2002) he built and launched funkysexycool out of his “garage”, bootstrapping the company on his own. He has been the major decision maker in all product development for funkysexycool since inception having spent significant time with the team in Australia, Germany, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.

While Peter enjoys software engineering, his main passion is user interface and product development citing Jakob Neilson and Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini as his greatest role models.

Peter completed a bachelors degree in Computing from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Prior to his role as Director of Marketing at funkysexycool, Russell worked at Ogilvy & Mather New York where he managed global integrated marketing campaigns for IBM's software division.

Before Ogilvy, Russell managed global marketing campaigns for Microsoft Xbox, and Intel at McCann Erickson New York. Russell has extensive experience in integrated marketing across all channels (TV, print, cinema, online, out-of-home, direct marketing), including non-traditional areas such as in-game, viral, virtual world (Second Life), and mobile.

Before embarking on his advertising career, Russell founded and managed two businesses: ebutlers.com, a same-hour delivery service for movies, convenience goods and meals in Washington DC, and craigmultimedia, a web marketing firm.

Russell has significant international experience. He has lived in London, Paris and Brussels, traveled throughout Europe, North America and Asia, and has managed shoots in the US, Canada, China, Germany and the UK.

Russell resides in New York City, New York.