Epicenter Leadership

Epicenter's aggressive and entrepreneurial leadership has a robust track record of innovation and execution in a wide range of industries ranging from online marketing to software.

Smokey Burns leads sales, marketing and financial management at Epicenter Network. Prior to starting Epicenter, Smokey managed two successful ventures, Starzbehindbarz and Ride Marketing Group. Starzbehindbarz, a company that focused on novelty playing cards, utilized the Internet as a distribution channel as well as traditional brick and mortar channels (7-11 and Urban Outfitters). The venture received national attention; Smokey appeared on numerous radio shows, TV shows including Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood and had the cards featured in magazines such as Playboy and Maxim. Smokey sold Starz one year after starting the company and building the Starz brand. Ride Marketing Group, a boutique online media buying agency, was known for its early work in bringing Experian's credit reporting products and Netflix's movie rentals to the online marketplace. Smokey played pivotal roles at several startups before that, including YieldUP International, Onsale.com/Egghead.com and Nextcard.com. Smokey holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BS from Linfield College.

Dylan McDanniel manages the engineering, creative and content teams at Epicenter Network and also plays an active role in business development, sales and corporate strategy. Prior to founding Epicenter, Dylan spent 8 years building user interfaces and websites for various companies in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. He was principal designer and design director at handheld software pioneer AvantGo, spent time at Sybase and was an early employee at systems management leader KACE Networks. Along the way, he worked on extremely high-traffic and high-profile consumer-focused Web services, including Variety.com and the AvantGo Mobile Internet service, as well as several enterprise software products. Raised in Sacramento, CA and North Shore Maui, HI, Dylan was educated at Linfield College, where he received a BA in Mass Communications (journalism emphasis) and a minor in French. He lives on the southern tip of Whidbey Island, WA.

Andrew Kahn manages Epicenter Network's Denver office, where he oversees business development, traffic generation and quality and domain portfolio development. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Andrew attended the University Of California, Santa Cruz, graduating with honors in 1996. After taking some time post-college to work for Club Med in Ixtapa, Mexico, Andrew migrated back to San Francisco, where he gained his first exposure to search engines and search engine marketing working directly for LookSmart and NBC's web portal/search engine, Snap/NBCi. Andrew then founded his own affiliate marketing directory with a longtime colleague, setting up shop in Lennox Head, Australia. Eventually, Andrew moved back to the United States and found a home amid Colorado's Rocky Mountains. He served as director for two Denver-based online marketing firms, Current Wisdom & Booyah Networks, before joining Epicenter Network in January 2008. Andrew has extensive pay-per-click and online marketing experience, having managed client marketing budgets of nearly $2 million per month.

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