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 purchased the PhotoVu for my wife for Christmas in 2004. The device was simple to setup and easily displayed all of the digital photo's I've been storing on my computers....many of which had not been viewed in years. The next investment will be in a scanner. The PhotoVu has become the main attraction in our favorite living space, the kitchen. Everyone is amazed by it. Thank you for producing this excellent product.”

— John M.
Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania