RPM Visual Media

Address

RPM Visual Media, LLC
1030 North Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
USA
Tel: (773) 256-9071
http://www.rpmvisualmedia.com

Team

Jay Parkin

In early 1998 after returning to Germany from Bosnia, Jay was discharged from the United States Army with very high honors and quickly started his career in Tour/ Production Management. Mr. Parkin has tour/production managed a number of very established national acts such as Thursday, Thrice, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Blink 182. Jay is a veteran to the road and spent most of his time with the pivotal New York City punk rock band H2O who were signed to MCA Records.

Jay tour managed from 1998 until 2001 when he was given an offer to co-run a strong independent rock label called Fiddler Records, in Los Angeles, California. Fiddler is best known for discovering and developing artists such as Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, The BLED, Name Taken and The Higher. Jay took pride in finding young artists with a lot of talent and absolutely no music business savvy. He would teach these young bands how to become a business/product beyond their songs.

In 2005 Jay left the Fiddler Records to pursue a position in music distribution. Moving to Chicago, Jay took a job as the National Distribution Manager at Southern Records Distribution [now; Chicago Independent Distribution/ CID]. He was responsible for building the national chain distribution relationship and systems between Southern and Fontana, as Southern had just signed a deal with Fontana Distribution [the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group

Kevin Sender / Operations

Kevin Sender began his professional career at Sam Ash Music in the winter of 2000 at Sam Ash’s Lombard Illinois location. He started with the company in Operations, and quickly built himself a reputation as the clean up guy. Sam Ash recognized his ability to organize tasks, execute systems, and develop employees and he spent the next 7 years of his career with the Ash’s relocating back and forth between the three Chicago land Sam Ash stores responsible for managing over 2 million dollars of inventory and staffing in each of the 3 locations. After a successful run in operations, the Ash Corporation transitioned Kevin into a Sales Management position in hopes that his abilities and experience with the company would translate to sales growth. Kevin’s drive and determination to succeed led to an immediate turn around in sales at the Buffalo Grove Sam Ash location. Kevin took the Buffalo Grove store from the bottom of the sales heap in his region to Store of the Year in his region in his first 12 months as sales manager. He was consequently transferred back to the Burbank Sam Ash location in June of 2009 where he spent his last 3 months with Sam Ash continuing to make massive positive impact on the store’s performance until he left the company in August of 2009 to pursue a career with RPM Visual Media and VEOBA.

While working for Sam Ash, Kevin was also appointed Regional Head of Information Technologies, was part of the expansion team responsible for opening stores in Cincinnati Ohio, and was sent to help retrain and make operational corrections at the Columbus Ohio location. Kevin also became known as a pioneer of Sam Ash’s grass roots marketing campaign by optimizing contact and involvement with local artists, optimizing use of social networking tools and managing promotional events to draw attention to whatever location he was responsible for.

In addition to a successful history with the Sam Ash Music Corporation, Kevin has run his own recording studio, started and managed his own Record Label, and has been a nationally touring DJ/Musician for close to 10 years. He does remix and production work for artists all over the United States under the alias of DJ ABDUCTED and has been featured as a guest performer in some of the hottest night clubs across the country. He is a founding member of ChipsNsalsa DJs based out of Chicago with partner Jay Parkin, and has started and run several production companies over the last decade that have been involved with events recognized worldwide including the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, aka Movement, and the World Music Conference in Miami. Kevin is currently a resident DJ at several clubs in Chicago including The Liars Club, Pint, and Betty’s Blue Star lounge, and is currently working on several side projects including another record label looking to have a limited run vinyl release scheduled for the winter of 2010.

Board of Advisors

Partners

ENTERPRISE PARTNERS:

VRD works with large corporations to assist with managing, distributing and report on their video assets. There are a number of relevant aspects to corporate video distribution. Our clients distribute videos for training, recruiting, marketing & branding and to directly sell products. Beyond the 100’s of sites in our network, we work with our enterprise customers to integrate proprietary video sites, intranets and tools to send videos to internally and to customers via email and SMS. partners@rpmvm.com

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:

The foundation of Video Resource Distribution is deeply rooted in the relationships it has forged. VRD has been developed by cultivating meaningful partnerships. It is our core belief that we will not be able to execute our goals without carefully choosing partnering with companies that VRD can have a mutually advantageous relationship with. We commit to all of our partners to spend the energy required to ensure that we are the best evangelists of our partners’ companies, and we expect the same from our partners. VRD works with advertising agencies, marketing companies, strategy consultants, and any companies that work with clients to assist in gaining brand identity, generate leads and sell products or services. Our technology allows for us to set up client accounts with multiple levels of sub-client accounts for individual client and overall reporting. If you or your company is interested in partnering with VOS, please contact: partners@rpmvm.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

INTEGRATED DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS:

Beyond a general partnership, VRD can align with a client in a completely automated manner. We have built our systems such that there is no human touch thru the entire upload, launch and reporting for individual and mass quantities of videos. It’s as simple as a nightly video upload, launch to a predestined subset of video sites and pushing all relevant reports to partner. This level of VRD integration is perfect for any client that has a volume that it would be cost prohibitive to work within our system. Our technology is sophisticate to a point where we can meet the demands of any customer. VRD follows a rigorous process and will flow chart out exactly how this works and work with your technology personnel so that the transition is seamless. partners@rpmvm.com

SITE PARTNERS:

The value Video Resource Distribution brings to her customers is inherently dependent upon our relationships with video websites. It is our mission to be the first site that the Internet video community comes to in orders to the launch their video for maximum exposure. We have an extensive team that researches sites and sales tools daily. As a result, we will always be acutely aware of the Internet video landscape and its emerging sites, influences and technologies. If you have or manage a site, blog, or sales tool that we have somehow missed, we apologize, but please contact us and we will quickly ensure you are a part of the VOS video site community. To add your site to the VOS video community, please contact us at: partners@rpmvm.com.

Investor Relations

RPM Visual Media is a privately held company. We have close our Series A funding. We are not certain we will open up investment for a Series B round as organic growth is our mission. To the extent a Series B round of funding is a consideration and you are interested in discussing this matter please email our CFO at dennis.wolfe@rpmvisualmedia.com

Philanthropy

RPM Visual Media supports charitable causes by applying our skills and technology to worth causes. We have a continued interest in assisting those that what we do can impact their mission. Weather they are using video to promote an event, their charity, for fundraising and beyond, RPM Visual media will make every effort to assist. One example of this is work we have done with a great cause, EPIC (www.iamepic.org) that connects top creative talent with education focused not-for-profits.

If you’re interested in our philanthropic work, please email us at info@rpmvisualmedia.com.