Tony Rose, CEO and Founder
Tony Rose is a visionary leader and has a solid track record in conceiving and successfully launching new products and businesses. In addition to his business ventures, Tony has over 8 years of experience in architecting, deploying and managing Internet and wireless applications.
As the Director of Operations for Mobileway North America from 2000 to 2004, Tony led the creation of Mobileway’s Premium SMS network in North America. The network is directly connected to more than 16 operators in the US and Canada and provides 2-way and Premium SMS to over 100 Million users. Tony received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998.
Konstantin Gredeskoul, CTO and Founder
Konstantin brings over 15 years of software design and architecture experience to Drop In Media’s technical team. Konstantin’s career focused on enterprise, web and database technologies, object oriented designs, frameworks, design patterns and open source components.
Before joining Drop In Media, Konstantin was CTO at venture backed Infectious.com, Inc — an artist community specializing in user generated adhesive art. Prior to that Konstantin spearheaded the Webby Award (2008) winning development of Blurb.com’s web site and e-commerce platform. Konstantin was also the lead architect on Topica Inc’s massively scalable and distributed email marketing platform capable of sending up to 200M email messages a day.
Konstantin holds an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science from Monash University (Australia), majoring in Pure Mathematics and Statistics.
Brian Patterson, VP Business Development
World class mobile deal maker
Brian started his career with 2 years in M&A and moved into the mobile content industry in 2004 with Mobile Streams where he built the world’s largest off-deck mobile content distribution network. Brian elevated to the role of VP of North America after establishing himself as the company’s #1 economic contributor in terms of revenues and profits from deals directly secured. Brian is now responsible for Drop In Media’s content licensing, carrier distribution, and mobile marketing deals.