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Arkiva Arkiva was founded in 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The catalyst in creating Arkiva was the unprecedented destruction of homes, businesses, and government facilities in Mississippi and Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The founders recognized the potential for protecting assets by creating a digital catalog and they took that to the next level by housing it in a geographically separated data center with built-in redundancy.
The goal was to provide a single secure offsite location to store, access, and share any type of digital material. Originally a home and business inventory service, Arkiva has evolved into the complete digital solution that protects and provides accessibility to any digital material. Through the Arkiva.com portal, customers can edit, share, and restore photos, videos, music, documents, home inventory, medical history, and PC files from their secure personal account.
Arkiva also provides an affordable end-to-end turnkey service that converts old media for customers and gives them the platform to store their already digitized data. Information is stored on remote secure servers and backed up in a redundant data center. This service enables individuals and businesses interested in asset preservation to reconstruct items of value through digital records in case of natural disasters, theft, or fire. Furthermore, the owners of the information have complete and unrestricted online access to this information from any location. By using an internet-based delivery, end users do not require specialized software or knowledge
The increased incidence of hurricanes, tornados, floods, and wildfires show no signs of diminishing and create urgency in developing and deploying a product like Arkiva's "personal cyberhome". These combined factors provide for a window of opportunity in an emerging market that will demonstrate exponential growth. Arkiva brings together the right people and technology to address this market need immediately.
Zachary J. Goldberg, CEO, Director and Co-Founder
Mr. Goldberg serves as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the company. His duties include initiating and directing the implementation of the portal design technique and subsequent upgrades, sales and marketing strategies, overseeing operations, and directing technology. Mr. Goldberg was employed at Bank of America in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as Portfolio Manager from 2003 to 2005. Prior thereto, commencing in 2001, he was a Networking Systems Project manager for Kerzner International in Nassau, Bahamas. Mr. Goldberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Bentley College and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Bruce Roberson, Director, Co-Founder
Arkiva’s former Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Roberson, draws from more than twenty years experience in healthcare, sales, marketing, and information systems management in executive roles with McDonnell Douglas, IBM, National Data, HBOC, and Proxymed. Mr. Roberson holds degrees in Healthcare and Business Administration, and is an active member of related service organizations.
Randall Wood, Director
Mr. Wood co-founded Citrix Systems, a software company that has grown into a billion dollar Fortune 500 Corporation. Mr. Wood is Chairman and CEO of Coneca Properties, a nine-year-old commercial real estate investment company headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida. Mr. Wood holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware.
Sandy Goldman, Chief Marketing Officer and Director
Mr. Goldman has been an innovator, creating new business models for a variety of B2C and B2B companies. Mr. Goldman has more than twenty years of management, business development, marketing and sales experience in retail, television and the internet with Turner Broadcasting System, SkyMall.com and The Trump Institute. Mr. Goldman graduated from the University of Maryland, University College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
Mr. Kenneth Goldberg, Director, VP of Sales and Business Development
With more than 20 years experience in sales and marketing management, Mr. Goldberg oversaw the wealth management team as a Senior Vice President for Bank of America/Investment Services. At Bank of America, Mr. Goldberg achieved strategic management of more than $400 million in assets, and received the President’s Club Award for every year he was with the company. Mr. Goldberg graduated from Florida Atlantic University with concentrations in finance, economics, and marketing.
Dr. Martin Mahler, Director
Dr. Mahler has served as a Director of the company since December 2005. He is a diplomat of The Academy of Implant Dentistry. Dr. Mahler was a founding board member of JAFCO, an adoption and foster care organization.
Mr. Bill Karger, Director, Legal Counsel
Mr. Karger has been an entrepreneur and innovator, creating, building, and selling numerous companies over the past seven years in South Florida. Mr. Karger has practiced corporate intellectual property law for the past eleven years and currently consults with new business owners regarding multi-discipline approaches for management, mergers & acquisitions, value process re-engineering, software and IP protection, strategic planning, and financial analysis. Mr. Karger worked as in-house counsel at MCI, procurement division, and later at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. Mr. Karger earned his undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Communications from The George Washington University, his MBA in Management Finance from Suffolk University and his Juris Doctor from The University of Miami School of Law.
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