About Us
MyMojo was created to offer the users what the mobile content market was lacking - a community environment with a large, diverse selection of FREE mobile content providing the ability to create, edit and then offer your content for profit. MyMojo was started in 2007 by a group of creative, experienced internet professionals with the goal to take the community environment and mobile content industry to the next level.
John Ferber, CEO
John Ferber, along with his brother Scott, was the Co-Founder of Advertising.com, which was acquired by AOL in 2004. John and Scott were named in 2000 as Entrepreneurs of the Year by Ernst & Young LLP. After taking a one-year hiatus John is back with his inventors cap on developing new Internet-based projects with a focus on fun and compelling entertainment.
Jason Ellin, CFO
Jason has worked as a financial and investment advisor for the past three years assisting individuals and businesses. Previously, Jason worked for Advertising.com heading up the company's Northeast Operations. Jason started his career in finance at Bessemer Trust, a company engaged in wealth management. He is a graduate of Towson University where he earned a BS in Finance.
Paxti Pastor, President
Patxi Pastor is a senior executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of expertise founding and running entertainment and technology based companies. He has additionally created and produced major ground breaking entertainment marketing events and campaigns for the world's leading brands and celebrities. Patxi designed, built and published over seventeen major on-line entertainment and electronic commerce portals and was the recipient of over thirty of the industry's leading online awards and commendations for Internet design and production.
Jerry Blair, Vice-President
Jerry Blair has been involved with the music industry’s top recording labels and artists that have defined popular culture and radio airwaves for over 25 years. During the height of the 80’s, Jerry headed the west coast office of Chrysalis Records. He went on to spend the next 11 years at Colombia Records Group. While at Columbia Jerry served as the Executive Vice President for the label and personally oversaw the career development of music superstars Mariah Carey (the number one selling female artist of all time), Destiny’s Child, and Jessica Simpson. He additionally directed the promotional and marketing campaigns which resulted in bringing Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Aerosmith’s some of the greatest grossing record sales and concert tours in their careers.
Erik Simons, Executive VP - Business Development
Since 1995, Erik Simons has founded several successful internet ventures that span the globe. With Companies based in the US, Canada, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, Mr. Simons' main focus is in creating efficient and highly scalable solutions which allow for an aggressive capture of online media market share. Mr. Simons has been a regular consultant on IT issues for the governments of several European Union countries.
Jason Boshoff, Chief Operations Officer
Jason has over a decade experience in new media development and advertising. He graduated with a Business Degree in Technikon Natal, South Africa in 1992. His most recent accomplishments included marketing, branding, product development, operational planning, business development and market gain of POG and online positioning for impulse merchandise in large accounts including Amazon.com, JC Whitney.com, Wal-Mart.com, K-mart.com, Pep Boys.com, Sears, CSK Inc, and AutoZone.com.
Frank Aiello, Graphic Designer
After holding positions as creative director, lead designer, and senior flash developer, Frank came to MyMojo with an impressive background in graphic design and website development. He has personally spearheaded and managed the creation of websites for musicians such as David Poe, Anna Nalick, Vienna Teng, Lucy Woodward, SDown and more. The thumbnails below visually illustrate some of his work.
