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John Munsell
CEO/Co-Founder
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A graduate of Louisiana State University with a major in
Finance and a minor in Marketing, John Munsell brings to Bizzuka over 26 years
of experience in financial services and marketing working with companies such
as First Commerce Corporation (now Chase Bank) and Northwestern Mutual Life.
Munsell played key roles in the turn-around of troubled bank acquisitions and expansions,
and he also acted as a consultant helping businesses increase market share and
streamline operations.
In 1990, Munsell, along with his banking co-worker, Dean
Drummond, founded a small software company which developed and marketed an
automated credit analysis package to banks across the United States. This small
startup helped Munsell and Drummond master the art of direct response
marketing. Drummond later became a Bizzuka shareholder and served as Chairman of
Bizzuka's Board of Directors from 2004-2010.
During John's tenure at Northwestern Mutual Life, he gained
a reputation for his ability to create powerful, motivating multimedia sales
presentations. He eventually became the director of Technology and New Agent
Development for the Tampa Bay region. In this capacity, John trained new
agents, coached agents in the use of the Web as a communications and
prospecting tool, and was responsible for all regional and local multimedia
presentations.
After successfully creating and marketing websites for
clients on a part-time basis, John left NML to co-found Webtank, Inc. in 1998.
He drove this startup from a part-time business to a profitable enterprise with
sales of $1.5 million in less than 2 years.
In 1999, Munsell hatched the idea of creating a component
based architecture for Web content management. In the Fall of 2001, John and
Webtank COO Lonnie Rouse co-founded Bizzuka and turned the industry on its head
as they launched a revolutionary, on-demand architecture for Web content
management.
Using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, Bizzuka made
Fortune 500 capabilities affordable for virtually any small or medium sized
business. This new system not only gave companies the ability to edit the text
on a Web page through a browser based interface, but it also allowed site
administrators to tap into a robust library of Web applications with the click
of a mouse.
Bizzuka has now grown to be the largest pure Web developer
in the state of Louisiana and one of the largest in the southeast United
States, servicing over 800 customers in 43 states and 3 countries. In 2010 and
2011, Bizzuka was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing
privately held businesses in the U.S.
Additionally, Bizzuka made the LSU Top 100 in 2011 and 2012.
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