William A. Mobley, Jr. -- Chairman, President, & Founder
William (Bill) Allen Mobley, Jr. is a technology entrepreneur who has founded a number of different companies that were influential over the last decade of the Internet and who continues to consult in this flourishing online environment.
His first notable Internet company, World Commerce Online, was founded in 1993. One of the world's first global e-commerce trading systems , it was a trade intermediary system for the floral trade, as well as produce and livestock. Created using WorldGroup (MajorBBS) architecture and X.25 protocols--a predecessor to the modern internet protocol--World Commerce Online grew and acquired a number of online floral and produce competitors. Mobley departed from World Commerce Online in 1999 after raising the stock prices from 30 cents a share to over $28 a share, and it was sold off to GE Global Exchange Service, I2 Technologies, and Atlanta Bremen.
With the assistance of former employees, he contributed towards and helped to inspire the creation of ImageCafe in 1998. An early web page builder, it built over 500 web sites a day in its heyday, and was eventually redeveloped & optimized and sold to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), a VeriSign company (NASDAQ:VRSN) for $25 million.
Mobley founded MegaMedia Networks in 1999, a streaming-video provider that compressed video enough to watch over a dial-up connection. Its main property, MegaChannels.com served over 800k hits a day in 1999, becoming the Internet's dominant site for males 18 - 24 in the year 2000. Megachannels.com was ranked by Neilsen/NetRatings as a "Top 10 Website" in 2000 , and reached a predominantly male audience. MegaChannels.com was the official webcast sponsor of the annual academy awards, signed distribution deals with major Hollywood studios, and even served as test beds for early reality television programming, but the site's ad revenues vanished in the tech bubble crash of 2000 and Mobley ended up taking MegaMedia Networks private. He still holds MegaMedia Networks' key technology assets today.
Personal Portals Online, founded in 2001, was a website builder system targeting cottage industry merchants seeking a simple, low-cost means of setting up their online storefront and professional service firms seeking distinctive websites. Personal Portals was merged with One Ten Media in December of 2005, and would shortly be renamed Web2 Corp following the company's new focus on the web 2.0 space.
Mobley's next company, Web2 Corp, was a holding company for several subsidiaries devoted to exploitation of proven Internet business models. The overarching purpose of Web2 was to create a platform of products that had been proven successful, and then use them together to build upon one another and capitalize on the resurgent Internet market. Products included: Chamber of Ecommerce (chamberecommerce.com), Template Superstore (templatesuperstore.com), Web 1000 Hosting (web1000.com), and whilte-label enterprise products installed internationally.
Nextelligence, Inc., founded in 2000, is a publicly-held business creation and incubation firm that has fostered development of numerous companies inclusive of several listed above. As a technology and business development think tank, Nextelligence provides the technology, administrative, and management support for start-up concepts and arranges proper capitalization for market development.
Mobley has extensive experience in global trade and marketing, working with such accounts as Ryder, Dole, Chiquita, Brands, NFL, NBA, MLB, Citibank, PepsiCo, and numerous perishable importers globally. Prior to World Commerce Online, Mobley held positions with Intermarket Services (Southeast Banks Export Trading Company), Wm. A. Mobley & Associates and Entrepreneurial Systems, Inc. of Miami specializing in the trade of perishable commodities from Latin America and Europe.
Mobley graduated from the University of Florida in 1984 with a Business degree in International Business Development and Marketing.
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