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Mark Gray, Co-founder

Mark Gray is a co-founder of uvlayer.

uvlayer makes online video discovery, sharing, publishing and play-listing simple and fun.

With uvlayer users can easily manipulate their media, collect and publish to the web, and share with friends across their social networks, all via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who along with co-founder Michael Hoydich has founded and led two different companies from 2004 to 2007. IndustryNext, a technology and design services firm, whose clients include eBay, Sony, NBA, AOL and NBC Universal and Incognito Digital, an interactive marketing agency whose clients include OKI, Bloomberg, FOX, and Haier.

Prior to founding IndustryNext and Incognito Digital, Mark was the EVP of Sales and Marketing an executive officer role at Viewpoint Corporation (now Enliven Marketing), a small publicly traded marketing and technology company, where he negotiated a deal to add interactive video to Viewpoint’s platform, created a go-to-market strategy around online advertising, and helped acquire over 100 new clients in less than a year.

Mark has been in the interactive industry since its inception. He has worked for companies such as J. Walter Thompson; privately held Xcom, the first acquisition of USWeb which later went public and privately held Viant, backed by Kleiner Perkins, TCV, and Mohr Davidow and which later went public.

Mark led the design and development of some of the first commercial websites (optimized for the Mosaic browser) for clients such as Bell Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine and still has fond memories playing subscription-based games via cable on his Intellivison.

Mark's Blog :: http://marksgray.wordpress.com/

Michael Hoydich, Co-founder

Michael Hoydich is a co-founder of uvlayer.

uvlayer redefines online video; with uvlayer users can easily manipulate their media, collect and publish to the web, and share videos with friends across their social networks, all via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Michael is a serial entrepreneur who, along with co-founder Mark Gray, has started and led two different companies from 2004 to 2008: IndustryNext, a technology and design services firm, whose clients include Sony, NBA, AOL and NBC Universal; and Incognito Digital, an interactive marketing agency whose clients include OKI, SpeedTV and Haier.

Prior to IndustryNext, Michael was the VP of Sales at Viewpoint Corporation (now Enliven Marketing Technologies Corporation), where he helped launch online advertising as a viable business line and built a sales team from the ground up.

Michael has extensive experience in the publishing, online advertising, and high technology industries. He has held key positions at XCom (now USWeb), Ziff Davis, GeoCities (now Yahoo!), Wise Ads New Media (now About.com), and iWon (now IAC).

Michael attributes a good portion of his industry success to his role as SysOp of DeathStar BBS, (which was run on his Atari 130XE with a 300 Baud Modem and 1 meg of storage).