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Joel Norvell
- Co-Founder, President and CEO, 51
- Norvell was Chairman and CFO of Norvell-Marcum Company, Inc., 1991-2004. The company, established in 1947, manufactured, distributed and imported a wide variety of consumer goods. Norvell directed modernization of the company’s inventory and accounting systems, installing state-of-the-art technology for the industry. Norvell has a broad background in accounting, finance, human resources, and business development. Norvell is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and is a seasoned and opinionated Yoga teacher. Norvell first met Sontag while teaching a class and the two are clearly the Yin and Yang of Vidoop.
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Luke Sontag
- Co-Founder, President, Technology, 28
- Having a first hand view of the weakness of password based authentication, Sontag teamed up with his colleague and friend, Norvell, to create an Internet scale solution to one of the biggest problems facing the Web. Prior to founding Vidoop, Sontag was a security analyst/team lead in Identity & Access Management at JPMorganChase in New York. One of ten children, Sontag worked full time while financing and earning his Bachelor’s degree from St. Gregory’s University. Straight out of high school, his love of technology led to his first position with Williams Communications (now Level 3 Communications). Three years later, Sontag joined Norvell-Marcum Company, Inc., holding various positions in the finance and technology departments. As President of Technology at Vidoop, Sontag led the early design and prototyping of the company’s flagship technology and assembled the team of engineers that ultimately developed Vidoop Secure®.
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Scott Blomquist
- Chief Technology Officer, 30
- Blomquist returned to Oklahoma in December 2006 to head up Vidoop’s technology program after more than 7 years of software development at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he helped ship three versions of the Windows operating system and a handful of other products. Most recently, he helped found and build the Windows Live Multimedia Search Team and led the team responsible for both the user experience and the web serving infrastructure for Live Image Search and Live Video Search. Blomquist holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and attended high school at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics.
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Wiley Parsons
- Chief Financial Officer, 53
- Parsons brings thirty years of financial experience to the company, with the last twenty one years as Executive Vice President in charge of Private Banking with F&M Bank in Tulsa. Parsons is a graduate of the University of the South, Sewannee, Tennessee, with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and an Advanced Banking Degree from Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Matt Selbie
- VP of Marketing, 45
- Selbie brings over twenty years of international experience in the areas of business strategy, operations and marketing management. He has worked in Europe, Asia, South America and the US, largely in the gasoline and retail businesses. Prior to Vidoop, he was Brand Manager at ConocoPhillips. As Brand Manager, he developed the positioning and communication strategies for the gasoline brands. He also implemented tools to calculate the return on investment for brand advertising. In addition to Marketing, Selbie will also manage external communications and develop the advertising business models for Vidoop’s unique ImageShield™ that is the foundation for its multifactor authentication management solutions. Selbie holds a bachelors degree in Business and an MBA from the University of Warwick (UK).
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Matt Olenski
- VP of Sales, 44
- Vice President of Sales Matt Olenski is responsible for all aspects of sales and product management at Vidoop. Olenski has more than 20 years of experience in management roles with software, hardware and web companies. Prior to Vidoop, Olenski served as VP, Business Development for SawStop, an innovator of safe power tools. Prior to SawStop, Olenski held sales, corporate development, marketing and product management roles with leading technology companies including Symantec and InFocus. Mr. Olenski earned a BS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.