PhotoVu Digital Photo Frame Founders

Mark Van Buskirk — Co-founder

Mr. Van Buskirk has been directly involved as a leader in the technology space for the last 18 years, in both start-up and corporate environments. Prior to co-founding PhotoVu, Mark worked as the director of segment management for 3com, where he was responsible for overseeing the company’s sales and product marketing efforts for the home networking and Internet appliances segment.

Prior to 3com, Mark served as a principal for Becker Capital Management, a private angel investment firm, helping to facilitate the strategy, technical analysis and direction for new investment opportunities synergistic within Becker’s portfolio of wireless, internet and telecom start-ups. While at Becker, he also served as president of DCN, a small $3M BCM-funded startup involving digital photography and web-cam internet appliances.

Mr. Van Buskirk held several positions at Motorola over a 10 year period, initially in engineering product development and lastly as a business development and wireless evangelist for Motorola’s EMBARC paging business. At EMBARC Mark helped develop the company’s foray into wireless data and other wireless content delivery services. His professional career began at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics where he was employed as an electrical systems engineer responsible for integration of communication satellites to the space shuttle.

Mr. Van Buskirk received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology from the University of Central Florida.

Robert Jordan — Co-founder

Mr. Jordan has held increasingly responsible senior sales, marketing, and management positions at a variety of startup and publicly listed companies such as McDATA, CreekPath Systems, Exabyte, Visio, and Microsoft. Prior to co-founding PhotoVu, Robert held the position of director of software marketing for McDATA Corporation and was responsible for all storage software product marketing and management efforts as well as participation in the acquisition of SANavigator.

At CreekPath Systems, Inc., Robert worked as the director of business development where he was responsible for technology partnerships, early adopter customers, and channel strategies. Prior to CreekPath, Robert served as the vice president of marketing, sales, and business development at DCN, a startup focused on digital photography and web-cam Internet appliances. At Exabyte, Robert led the channel marketing and e-business efforts at Exabyte Corporation.

Prior to Exabyte, Robert was responsible for developing channel and partner strategies at Visio Corporation. At Microsoft, Mr. Jordan was instrumental in developing localized marketing strategies and enterprise customer selling models during the rapid growth of the late '80s through the mid '90s.

Mr. Jordan holds a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Florida and completed additional graduate work at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College.

Customer Testimonial

“I love my PhotoVu 19" Standard frame! It sits on my piano and I often play music that goes with the photographs for family and friends! I have had my PhotoVu since June, 2007 and have had photos from my collection of 30,000 + digital photographs playing ever since I first plugged it in. I have experimented with a USB thumb drive, RSS feed and wireless connection over my home network to a 500 GB hard drive attached to my Apple Airport Extreme. So far, I love the wireless option because all 30,000 photos can constantly stream over my PhotoVu for everyone to see. Off of the hard drive and onto the PhotoVu! Sincerely, ”

—Anthony L.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania