Ari Mir

Ari Mir is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Pocket Change Inc. He is Co-founder of Clutter Inc. and serves as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Marketing Officer. Ari Mir was a Co-Founder of GumGum, Inc. and served as its CPO. He served as Director of Product Management of LowerMyBills.com from August 2007 to April 2008 Ari Mir served as Product Manager of ShopZilla.com from November 2005 to August 2007, responsible for driving the product vision of 8 major e-commerce sites (across 4 countries) to achieve both short and long term business objectives. He was responsible for Managing the BizRate product by redefining the vision and creating/executing upon a respective roadmap; multivariable tests for Shopzilla and BizRate, resulting in $32 million in projected annualized revenue; assessing key performance metrics, usability analyses and industry trends in brainstorming and presenting business cases for product changes; authoring business requirement, product requirement, navigation flow, and use case documents; and managing products cross-functionally from inception to post launch analysis, collaborating with R&a;D, Sales, Usability, SEO, Engineering and QA. Ari Mir co-founded Mojungle, LLC from March 2006 to March 2007. He founded, built and sold a mobile social network. Ari Mir sold Mojungle to PeakPSI, a software solutions company, and ShoZu.com, a mobile media sharing company. He developed a fixed licensing strategy and managed press communications (GigaOM, Mashable!, etc). Ari Mir built and executed the product roadmap; performed an industry analysis on the mobile space, identifying mobile media sharing as an unfulfilled consumer need; conducted a technical analysis on mobile development environments, identifying the strengths and weakness of BREW, Symbian, J2ME, and SMS/MMS; outlined product specifications for Mojungle's Flash widget, back-end SMS/MMS parser and front-end web interface ; managed third party firm in creating a logo and a design schema and established usability labs to gather feedback on product development decisions. He served as Publisher of EATING Magazine from June 2003 to October 2005. Ari Mir founded and published an epicurean lifestyle magazine for Los Angeles. He was responsible for all aspects of starting a business and running the day-to-day operations; managed a 9-person team comprised of editors, photographers, designers, writers and account managers; recruited an editorial executive from Condé Nast and a serves as les director from Los Angeles Magazine; developed a product for an unmet consumer segment of the magazine industry; identified the strengths and weaknesses of indirect competitors (Zagat, Gourmet, etc); produced the editorial view, visual layouts and production specification; handled the publication's business development and marketing need; increased circulation to 20k by establishing a distribution network consisting of over 500 newsstands, supermarkets and bookstore chains; and reduced printing costs 40% by traveling to China to find alternative printing solutions. Ari Mir was Paid Intern of Twentieth Century FOX Television from May 2002 to May 2003. He developed profitability forecasting software for the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Twentieth Century FOX Television. Ari Mir helped gather, document and interpret the business unit requirements for major participant backend deals and structures at Twentieth Century FOX. He holds BS in Business Management Consulting from University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business in 2003. Ari Mir is Business Scholar.