People

sol media management team has over fifty years of combined experience in the English and Hispanic Internet market, advertising media, software development / database development and start-up and corporate management experience. Our goal is to expand the website development functions to meet the industry's high demand.

Our key people, chief associates and advisors are:

Daniel Díez - CEO/Executive Director

Daniel founded sol media at the outset of the Internet, in 1997 and guided the company's growth since its inception. The company has shown exceptional growth and has developed a reputable name within the market. His Internet business-related knowledge is vast and emanates from personally developing the business with a hands-on approach evolving to several owned and operated sites.

Daniel is originally from Mexico; he obtained a degree in television production and marketing in Spain. He lived 10 years in Canada where he spent the last years acting as Vice President of Díez Méndez Insurance Agency, the leading Hispanic Insurance Agency in Toronto, Canada. Daniel is bilingual and bicultural.

Dr. Humberto Olarte - Development Director

Dr. Olarte has played an important role in the establishment of sol media; he has worked as a Senior Webmaster and has been in charge of the development of several of our clients' web sites.

Humberto has been following closely the development of Internet and has learned several skills, maintaining a current knowledge regarding the latest technological enhancements concerning the development of web sites.

Humberto is very knowledgeable on Internet and building online communities, plus a working knowledge on HTML, CSS, CGI/TCL scripts, and several Graphics Art and Multimedia software, such as Adobe PhotoShop, Flash, Shockwave. Humberto is bilingual and bicultural.

Robert Morris - Director of Project Management

Robb brings his expertise in project management and his customer experience. Robb's primary role is to direct the project management functions of new eBusiness development accounts.

After completing preparatory studies in Mexico and Canada, Robb came to the United States and attended Arizona State University. He graduated in 1985 with BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Robb's professional experience includes engineering positions at U-Haul International, and Allied Signal Aerospace. He also worked with First Data Corporation as a project manager/customer liaison to manage FDC's Distributed System project for a major Mexican bank, Bancomer.

John Anthony - Creative Director

A native of Toronto, Ontario Canada, John was trained in advertising design and visual communication with an emphasis on corporate identity. Before settling permanently in California, John's career expanded more than 20 years of agency and studio on-hand experience in all facets of the communications arts industry. From architectural, fashion, corporate and financial, retail, real estate, audio visual, high technology, aerospace, industrial and manufacturing.

His career has covered a multitude of on-hand experiences working with a wide diversity of the best talent and advertising design agencies in North America, and all supported with national and international awards. His background includes experience in virtually all areas of design and communication, development of corporate and brand identity, collateral material, print media, photography, new product launch and brochure material with full media support, annual reports and a full knowledge of print media management.

Merrill Dean - Executive Advisor

Merrill Dean has broad worldwide business experience as a key executive with the Walt Disney organization (11 years, President - Music Division), Mexico's Grupo Televisa (7 years, President & CEO of US based Televisa International Marketing Group) and a number of successful Internet advertising technology startups. His experience in database marketing, motion pictures, affinity credit card financial services, publishing, and consumer products provides sol media development with a strong background for today's Internet business development. Currently, as CEO and Director of several domestic and international media groups, Merrill is involved in the strategic expansion of global Internet based advertising Networks in the US, Europe and Latin America.

Merrill was a founding executive and Chief Operating Officer of technology startup, AdForce Inc. (now a wholly owned by CMGI). From its venture-funding inception, he was instrumental in shaping the company's database advertising focus, strategic alliances and direction. Today, AdForce is recognized as one of the Internet's leading central network oriented advertising management technologies, serving more than 25 billion banners monthly for major clients and ad sales networks.

Gene Bryan - Marketing Advisor

Gene Bryan is the president of Hispanic Media Sales, Inc., a New York based marketing, media and sales performance consultancy for Hispanic and Urban markets. Specializing in traditional and new media strategies and executions in the US and Latin America. Gene has over 17 years experience producing results oriented programs for some of leading Hispanic and Urban focused companies: Entravision Communications, Hispanic Radio Network, Spanish Broadcasting System, Hispanic Broadcasting Corp., OnRadio.com, Vibe.com, Blaze.com, Mega Communications, enDigital.com, Terra.com and Katz Hispanic Media.

Mr. Justin Philipson – Systems Administration Director

Mr. Philipson brings hands-on experience and expertise in systems administration and web technologies deployment to the Solmedia Development team. His systems administration skills cover the spectrum of server-side technology, including Apache, Bind, SendMail , MySQL, FTP, SSH et al. He is also well versed in HTML, PHP, CGI/ Perl and other web development languages.

Justin also plays an integral part in the development of customer's sites by putting together the many pieces that comprise the back-end of every site. His strong dedication and no compromise approach shows in the stability and security of our finished products.

Over the past seven years Justin has maintained a steady pace keeping on-par with internet growth and trends. His experience combined with his fresh outlook and insight bring new growth and technology to Solmedia Development.

Colin Kilburn - Technical Project Leader

Mr. Kilburn has been the company's technical leader since the company's inception. His technical and research expertise has ensured the quality and innovation in their products that their customers have come to expect. Colin's experience is focused on leveraging database and Internet technologies to produce powerful and effective Web sites.

In the past, Colin has worked for companies such as IBM, New Brunswick Power Corporation as a software developer, and at Maritime Information Technology as a technical architect and researcher. Additionally he has been a valued independent consultant as a technical adviser in the latest Internet and database technologies.

He graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a degree in Computer Science with first class honors in Information Systems, and a minor in Software Development.

Scott O'Donnell - Software Development Director

Mr. O'Donnell has been the company's software development director since July 1999. His analytical skills and research expertise have provided with exceptional levels of quality assurance for the company's product suites. Scott's experience is focused on the management of the conceptual systems flow design, implementation and release phases of the software life cycle.

In the past, Scott has worked for the Province of New Brunswick as software developer and at Statistics Canada as a systems administrator and programmer for large scale and very large-scale systems. Additionally, he has been an indispensable asset for Newbridge Networks as a software developer for large-scale multiple-network systems.