What is Sharkle?1. Watch videos!Watch great video clips shared by users throughout the world.
2. Share videos!Simple and Easy
Submit your video by uploading
Share with your community or the world.
3. Build Your Own Community!Invite your friends and family to join your personal community so you ALL
can share videos amongst yourselves.
Building an interactive community is fun and just keeps on building!
4. Vote! Blog! Forum!Let the producer know what you think of their video creation.
Critique, comment and vote on each one.
Watch Videos - Share Videos - Build Community - Vote - Absolutely Free!!! ABOUT SHARKLE, INC
Sharkle is the premier online video sharing community. Users can watch videos, share videos, build community, and vote.
Sharkle, Inc. was a privately held corporation, headquartered in Marin County, Ca. and founded in 2004. Sharkle is now part of ViTrue Inc. and venture capital funded by General Catalyst.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
CEO, ViTrue, Inc.
Reggie Bradford
“Hammerhead Sharkle”
Reggie Bradford is founder and CEO of ViTrue Inc., and plays a pivotal role in enabling brands to engage in a new and meaningful way with their most loyal consumers thru the ViTrue platform and the Sharkle UGC site.
Most recently, Reggie was President and Board Member of TANDBERG Television. He successfully led an organization of over 400 employees with over $100MM in revenues and led profitable growth of around 40% year over year in his 14 months. Reggie joined TANDBERG as a result of the acquisition of N2 Broadband in February 2005, the leading provider of open-platform solutions for on-demand entertainment, where he was President and CEO since early 2001.
Prior to joining N2 Broadband, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at WebMD Corp. Reggie previously held various managment positions with Miller Brewing Company, a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. He earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University. He and his wife Holly have 4 children.
Founder and President
Trevor Wright
"Great White Sharkle"
Trevor is the creator of Sharkle and responsible for the day to day operations and the strategic development. Trevor also founded Black Bag Advertising, an online advertising agency representing Toyota Dealers, Pacific Coast Feather, Heald College, and Nor Cal McDonalds. Previously, Trevor was VP of Sales for Justarrive, VC funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he worked with such teams as the NBA Golden State Warriors, MLB San Francisco Giants, and NCAA University of Miami. Prior to those ventures, Trevor was an original of the Flycast Network growing from 10 to 500 people experiencing and IPO in 1999 and an acquisition by CMGI in 2000. When not working on a project he spends his time with his 3 children: Noah, Jonah, Natalia.
VP Operations
J. Brian Kropp
"Mako Sharkle"
As a co-founder of Sharkle, Brian (also known as "JB") is in charge of the operations of the business. Prior to Sharkle, Brian was a founding member of an online advertising company, Flycast Network, that completed a successful IPO in 1999 and then was sold to CMGi. After the completion of the acquisition, he and a team of others spun off a division and formed a private entity called SME Global Solutions.
Brian is currently a director of Queen City Ventures, an organization that helps entrepreneurs develop their ideas and he serves as a Board of Trustees for Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati and a member of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Denison University and is a native Cincinnatian where he lives with his wife, Allison...with a little one on the way.
VP Technology
Anton Bondarenko
"SawSharkle"
Anton is responsible for development and hardware architecture as well as filling the role of product marketing. His expertise has guided Sharkle since inception and his vision sets Sharkle apart from the competition. His technology team has built the premier online video sharing service and his team has constructed other complicated web offerings that have provided Anton exposure to cutting edge web technologies. In his spare time, Anton vacations to exotic locations and builds his photography portfolio.
