Management Team
Michael Hansen
Founder of DubLi, President and Chief Executive Officer of MediaNet Group Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of BSP Rewards
Michael Hansen is the Founder of DubLi, President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director of MediaNet Group Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s BSP Rewards subsidiary. Early in his career, Mr. Hansen gained experience from his work in a variety of internationally recognized creative environments. Mr. Hansen holds a degree in mechanical engineering and in the late eighties and early nineties worked as a developer for the Danfoss Group. Later, he was recruited by LEGO and was responsible for theme world development spending much of time designing and creating the highly successful Space Lego product line, which later developed the Star Wars products. In 1996, he commenced his entrepreneurial career by developing a successful chain of Mexican themed franchise restaurants which he sold off in 1999 to pursue a career in the Network Marketing industry. He has achieved the highest position in two US-based network marketing companies, in telecommunications and financial services. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Hansen founded his own direct selling company focused on special wines from around the world. At a young age, Mr. Hansen owned a chain of successful dance nightclubs in Denmark.
In 2003, Mr. Hansen he visualized the idea of DubLi as a powerful market player in the rapidly growing eCommerce market. After careful examination and considerable studies of the ‘reverse auction’ model, he concluded there was an even bigger opportunity for growth in the multi-billion dollar consumer market. He envisioned showcasing the best selling, in-demand products and services from the most well known and reputable companies in the world; only those with a household name would qualify. The key to success would be in the ability to drive customers to DubLi.com’s auction website. He felt that buyers would bid in the auctions…only if the products and services had instant appeal and credibility to the consumer. Convinced that DubLi.com could become a huge success, Mr. Hansen began assembling the collective talents of computer programmers, software engineers, web designers and graphic artists. There were plenty of trials and tribulations along the way because everything had to be designed from the ground up and the concept of building a ‘reverse auction’ portal for the consumer market had no predecessors as a guide.
Today, Mr. Hansen oversees the direction of MediaNet Group, DubLi and BSP Rewards and acts as a motivator for the fast-growing number of business associates to ensure their continued success. As a business leader, Michael Hansen sets high standards for himself and others.
Alessandro Annoscia
Chief Operating Officer of MediaNet Group Technologies
Mr. Annoscia brings over 20 years of experience to MediaNet Group in helping both big corporations and start-up companies grow sales and organizations globally. He joined MediaNet Group from Groupon GmbH, where he led competitive strategies in Japan and built the e-commerce practice in Beijing. As sales director, he was responsible for all operations, strategies, staffing and overall management for the practice. His efforts helped the company’s total sales grow by 20 percent within his first month spearheading the operation in Beijing. Prior to joining Groupon GmbH, Mr. Annoscia spent time in Silicon Valley as an investor and Chief Operating Officer at Rackup.com. He was responsible for operations, sales, marketing and technology, as well as funding strategies and financial modeling. He also co-founded PointGrow Inc., was a founding investor of Openbucks.com and served as an advisor to insteal.com, a start-up in Beijing. From 1993-2008, Mr. Annoscia held positions of increasing seniority with Microsoft Corporation, most recently as Senior Director of Global Sales Excellence. In this role, he developed a new global relationship management strategy and introduced standardized processes to global account teams. Prior to his global role, he held various executive positions in the Latin American region leaving as the General Manager of Enterprise Partners & Alliances, where he helped re-engineer the overall distribution, alliance and channel sales, and services organizations resulting in a sales increase of almost 40 percemt, distributor direct renewals of more than 30 percent and ROI rates for alliance investments of more than 40 percent. Earlier in his career at Microsoft, Mr. Annoscia was Regional Director of Sales and Marketing, General Manager and Microsoft Consulting Services Practice Manager for Microsoft in Latin America and Mexico. Mr. Annoscia began his career with Accenture right after college where he rose to the position of Senior Manager of the government and services practice for Mexico. Mr. Annoscia is a graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida and attended the General Management Executive Program at Columbia University in New York.
Andreas Kusche
Head of Legal Department and Secretary of MediaNet Group Technologies
Andreas studied at the renowned Humboldt University in Berlin, as well as at the University of Alicante in Spain. Additionally, he launched a film production company and was a consultant to an international film fund. After completing his law studies, he applied for admission as an attorney and joined the Härting firm, specialists for media law in Berlin. There he worked, among other things, in the fields of national and international tax law, and completed the tax law examination successfully. He has over seven years experience in advising media production companies, and was especially active in the fields of media finance and media funds.
Brack Jaskey
Chief Technology Officer of MediaNet Group Technologies
Mr. Jaskey brings to MediaNet Group over 18 years building and leading successful technology-related organizations. Prior to joining MediaNet in 2010, Mr. Jaskey was Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of IDV8, also known as dizzler.com, an online company that utilized complex search and indexing technologies to efficiently spider, harvest and index multi-media content on the internet and deliver it to consumers in an efficient and effective manner. Mr. Jaskey was directly responsible for growing dizzler’s user base to over five million in less than two years and for introducing one of the key mobile applications for Google’s “Android” phone. From 2002-2005, Mr. Jaskey was Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of ReSolutions, a technical staffing and IT solutions outfit, where he developed a dynamic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Internet Marketing outsourcing solution that was successful in driving clients to top positions in search queries. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jaskey spent three years at Convey Software, a developer of automated localization software solutions and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 companies and two years at Compuware Corporation, who provided outsourcing solutions for legacy code remediation, IT maintenance and application development projects to Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Jaskey began his professional career as an Attorney, where he practiced corporate law. Mr. Jaskey earned his BA in Economics from the University of Washington and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Seattle Law School.
Mark Mroczkowski
Chief Financial Officer of MediaNet Group Technologies
Mr. Mroczkowski has worked as an independent financial consultant and advisor to businesses since May 2008. From July 2000 until April 2008, Mr. Mroczkowski served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sequiam Corporation, a publicly-traded biometric original design and equipment manufacturing software and hardware company, with engineering, manufacturing and sales facilities in Taiwan, China and South Africa. He was also a member of Sequiam’s Board of Directors. Mroczkowski previously served as Chief Financial Officer of GeoStar Corporation, a private company with oil and gas exploration operations and five oil field service companies located throughout Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Texas, Wyoming, and Queensland and New South Wales. During his career, Mr. Mroczkowski founded a firm of Certified Public Accountants and co-founded Petro 7, an oil & gas exploration company, First Republic, an import export company and a technology company. Early in his career Mroczkowski was Ernst & Young and KPMG. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Florida State University and is a Florida Certified Public Accountant.
