Jeff Zie: Juvenile. Delinquent.

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Dino 246 GT

Alfredino Ferrari, the only son of Enzo Ferrari, suggested his father to develop a V6 racing engine for Formula 2 in the early 60s. Although always in favour of V12, Enzo approved his beloved son’s project and employed famed engineer Vittorio Jano to design this engine. The result was a very compact, 1600cc, quad-cam V6 which eventually won several F2 championship titles. However, before this happened, the ill-fated young Alfredino had already died in kidney disease. It took Enzo Ferrari several years to fully recover from heartbreak. For the memory of his son, he put the V6 into a mid-engined sports car and badged it “Dino”, which is the short-write of his son’s name.(source)

most Dinos are either red or yellow - which show them as a light sports car. but these curves in black … just gorgeous!

February 06, 03:41 AM

Few cars look meaner than the old Charger.

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Jeff Zie

GM & Head of Digital at freeform.London

Marketing and Advertising | Redhill, United Kingdom, GB

Summary

Over 20 years of experience in successful digital media in startup and corporate environments; holding senior strategy and management positions at Electronic Arts, BSkyB, Microsoft and Emap.

A digital veteran, Jeff has successfully run multi-million dollar P&Ls, built and managed teams across multiple territories within large corporates and start-up environments, and bridges between client-side and service-side industries. Moreover, Jeff's hands-on approach ensures that strategic and tactical activities are always coordinated. Career highlights include:

• Launching EA’s online casual games business, Pogo, in the UK, France and Germany.
• Heading and launching PlayJam, the world’s most successful interactive TV games channel
• Building/consolidating BSkyB’s combined interactive service division
• First Creative Directorship of MSN UK, establishing the first iteration of MSN
• Establishing and building EMAP’s consumer online business

Panellist/Speaker at various industry events, including BAFTA, GETIF, MIP, Milia, Museum of Television & Radio (LA), AFI, British Consulate.

Prior to the world going digital, Jeff was a Designer and Art Director at some of the world's leading consultancies and agencies.

Specialties: Analytical, entrepreneurial and creative. Building/managing great teams. Product Design & Direction, Business Development, P&L Responsibility, Analysis, Digital Marketing, SEO/SEM, Social Media exploitation, Business Planning & Strategy, Business Re-shaping, Accountability and Delivery.

Experience

Jan 2012 - Present
GM, freeform.London & Head of Digital / freeform.London

Heading up freeform's digital division, and keen to show what's possible.
May 2010 - Present
Consultant, Digital Media, Operations, Analysis, Production & Strategy / Freelance

Assisting clients with due-diligence, business development, building and delivering business strategy and product development in all things digital.
Jan 2010 - Present
Advisor / Artquest

Providing digital strategy advice to Artquest, key providers of advice and services to the arts and crafts community in London. Artquest is funded jointly by the visual arts department of the London office of Arts Council England and University of the Arts London.
May 2010 - Jan 2011
Advisor / Moviestorm Ltd

Provided the Moviestorm management team and board with strategic and tactical advice.
Dec 2008 - May 2010
CEO / Moviestorm Ltd

Led Moviestorm - the virtual movie-studio that allows anyone to create a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS7Vc3kxQ8

Brought in by the director-investors to create a clean, streamlined and scalable business, with a fund-raising of £1.2M in 2009, with follow-on funding in 2010.

Left the business in 2010 'on rails' whilst staying on in an advisory capacity.
Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
Consulting Head of Online / Static 2358 Ltd

Hired to devise and implement the integration of PlayJam's online presence with its iTV activities; developed the strategy, business/investment plan and launched the PlayJam.com beta site in compressed timescales and budgets.
Aug 2007 - Mar 2008
Consulting VP, Platform, Production & Design / t5m: the 5th medium

Platform and product development, content, production and design. Working with, and managing Microsoft Consulting Services and various suppliers to deliver an Enterprise-grade back-end and front-end to the business in a highly aggressive timeframe, whilst building an in-house design and production facility in a start-up environment.
Mar 2006 - Jul 2007
Director, Pogo Europe / Electronic Arts

P&L, strategy and implementation of EA's casual games service, Pogo, in Europe, launching Pogo in the UK, Germany & France, as well as research and analysis on MMOG/MSG opportunities.
2001 - 2006
Director, Creative Strategy/Channel Head / OpenTV

Launched and headed up PlayJam, the most distributed interactive TV games channel, acquired by OpenTV, where I became Director of Creative Strategy.
1999 - 2001
Head of Operations and Product Development - New Media / BSkyB

Developed and launched Sky's initial interactive TV offerings, Sky Sports Active, Sky News Active, then took Ops and PD responsibility for Sky's ISP offering, as well as Sky Text, and mobile offerings in the merged New Media division.
1997 - 1999
Creative Director, MSN UK / Microsoft

Took MSN UK from walled-garden subscription service to open, web-based service.
1995 - 1997
Founder/Exec Producer, Emap Consumer Online / Emap

Founded Emap's first consumer-targeted online business-unit, and built its first team to launch FHM, Q, Empire, Car, Motorcycle News, Max Power's first websites. Instrumental in brokering and executing one of the first 'big' online content deals with Compuserve.