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Founders
Anthony T. Farwell, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
Steven B. Katinsky, Co-Founder and Member of the Board
 | Anthony T. Farwell |
Throughout his career, Tony has built a number of successful media and technology companies. He was president and principal shareholder of Hollywood Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLL), the nation's premiere movie information service and developer of the leading movie ticketing service, movietickets.com, which he and his partners sold to The Times Mirror Company.
Tony was also a co-founder of TV Data Technologies, LP, the world's largest TV listings data and entertainment information provider. He and his partner acquired TV Data from The E.W. Scripps Company and TV Listings, Inc. to form TV Data Technologies, LP. He served as a partner of the general partner before the company was sold to The Tribune Company.
Tony was one of the principal shareholders and board member of STATS, Inc., the world’s most widely distributed independent sports data provider, which was acquired by News Corp's Fox Broadcasting. Later, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of SystemsVideo, Inc., a video content management company that also operated VideoGreetings.com, the first video greetings site on the Web.
Tony also served as president and a principal shareholder of Supertuner.com, a developer of advanced, Web-based, multi-media management technologies and holder of patents that are now part of one of the nation's leading patent pools.
Before his involvement in Internet technologies, Tony served as a senior executive of CableSouth, Inc., which he and his partner built into one of the largest independent multiple-system cable operators in the Southeast before its sale to Paul Allen's Charter Communications in 1995.
Tony serves as President of Farwell Capital, LLC, which is based in La Jolla, California. The firm manages his venture assets. He is also a founder and Managing Director of Fruition Ventures LLC, a closely held venture capital firm that invests and manages the venture capital assets of its partners.
Tony received a B.A., Economics, from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he graduated as a Chancellor's Marshall. He earned a joint International MBA (TRIUM) from the London School of Economics, HEC Graduate School of Business (Paris) and NYU Stern School of Business where he graduated first in his class. He is also a graduate of the Stanford Business School Program for Smaller Companies.
 | Steven B. Katinsky |
As a co-founder (in 1993) and CEO of Hollywood Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLL), (formerly Hollywood.com) Steve was an early pioneer in the area of streaming and interactive media. He led Hollywood.com from a nascent web venture through its growth as a primary producer and distributor of online interactive marketing and promotional campaigns for almost every Hollywood studio. Hollywood Media, which he and his partners sold to The Times Mirror in 1996, is also the developer of movietickets.com, and now a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HOLL).
In 1998, Steve founded Supertuner.com, a technology company with highly developed, web/browser based, media-stream management systems. The company broke new ground with AJAX and WEB 2.0 functionality and holds a patented IP that is now part of one of the nation's leading patent pools.
In 2004, Steve co-founded AdEngage, a popular advertising network, where he served as chairman and was a principal shareholder. In October 2009, AdEngage was was acquired by Technorati, Inc., where he now serves on the board of directors. In 2002, he founded YarnMarket.com and later YarnDex.com, the largest online yarn e-commerce and information database sites, respectively.
Prior to co-founding Hollywood Online, Steve was also the founder of Movie Hotline, a movie information service in partnership with Gannett's USA Today. Movie Hotline boasted the first national movie locator service, which included 13,000 theater screens.
Steve is a founder and Managing Director of Fruition Ventures LLC, a closely-held venture capital firm focusing on information service and life science investments. The firm manages the venture capital assets of its founding partners. He is an active angel investor and has invested in several start-ups.
Steve holds a B.A. in Communications from Rutgers College, where he studied engineering, computer science, communications, public relations and advertising.
Senior Executives
 | Paul J. Mass |
Having served as an investor and member of the ClosingCorp board of directors, Paul currently handles key responsibilities for the company’s day-to-day activities and the long-term strategic direction. Paul brings a broad base of legal and business experience, particularly in startup ventures, operations, and finance, in both regulated and unregulated industries.
Between 1987 and 1997, Paul served as COO of CableSouth, Inc., which he and ClosingCorp CEO, Tony Farwell built into a highly-profitable southeastern MSO, which was sold to Charter Communications in 1995. Paul helped spearhead CableSouth’s successful expansion into radio through its subsidiary, BayCom Partners, LP. Its six major-market radio stations were later sold to American Radio Systems in 1996. Paul and Tony also co-founded TV Data Technologies, LP, the world’s largest TV listings and entertainment information provider, later sold to the Tribune Company.
Paul also serves as President of Mass Ventures, a closely-held LLC through which he manages private equity investments. Through Mass Ventures, Paul co-founded and served as Chief Business Officer, Treasurer, and a member of the board of directors of The Althexis Company, a startup drug discovery firm, which focused on structure-based drug design to discover novel, small molecule antibiotics. Althexis was sold in 2001.
More recently, Paul co-founded and served as President and a board member of Main Street Broadband LLC, an Atlanta-based company organized to capitalize on the wireless broadband market in areas that are otherwise underserved. Main Street will initially deploy fixed wireless systems with WiMax functionality.
Paul began his career in 1977 as a corporate attorney with the Atlanta law firm of Long & Aldridge (k/n/a McKenna, Long & Aldridge). He specialized in mergers, acquisitions, and general corporate matters. In 1981, at 29, Paul was hired as VP and General Counsel of Cable America, Inc. an operator of some of the nation’s largest cable systems serving metro Atlanta and portions of the City of Los Angeles. Paul earned a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University in 1974, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from the Emory University School of Law in 1977, Order of the Coif, and was a Member of the Board, Emory Law Journal.
 | Michael D. Reynolds |
As Chief Financial Officer, Mike is responsible for all financial, administrative, human resource and legal functions for ClosingCorp, and plays a key role in creating and executing the company’s corporate strategy. He brings more than 25 years experience in leading the financial and operations organizations of public and private companies, and has significant experience in raising capital, developing financial teams and infrastructure, and mergers and acquisitions with companies in the software, services and Internet sectors.
Prior to ClosingCorp, Mike was Executive Vice President & CFO of ProfitLine, a provider of Business Process Outsourcing solutions for Global 2000 companies and government agencies. He has also served as Vice President & CFO of Datatree Corporation (acquired by First American Financial, NYSE: FAF), a provider of document imaging and database management systems to the title insurance industry, Elemental Software (acquired by Macromedia, NASDAQ: MACR), a developer of web authoring tools to build database-driven Web sites, and WebSideStory (NASDAQ: WSSI), a Web site traffic analytics company.
Mike also served as Vice President & CFO of Interactive Group (NASDAQ: INTE), an ERP software provider to manufacturing companies, where he completed the company’s initial public offering. He began his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP and Fujitsu Systems of America, where he was responsible for the company’s daily financial operations.
Mike holds a B.S. in Accounting from the School of Accountancy at San Diego State University, and an M.B.A. from San Diego State University. Mike is also a Certified Public Accountant.
 | Tim Armbruster |
Tim is responsible for strategic direction and implementation of ClosingCorp’s products and technology. He brings experience in managing technology infrastructure and large software development teams, and has a background in delivering strategic technology initiatives in the real estate/mortgage industry.
Tim joins us from First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a Fortune 500 company with heavy focus on title insurance and real estate information services. He started in 2000 as a Senior Developer and J2EE architect responsible for the architecture of the company’s strategic Web Services and Web Sites. During his tenure there, he built and managed large (150+) software development teams (on and offshore) and rose to positions as Process Manager and Lead Architect before becoming Director of Software Development. Prior to that, Tim served as a Senior Web Developer at Raytheon Corporation.
Tim graduated from McPherson College with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics.
 | Kristin Ewald |
Kristin writes, develops and manages all the content and marketing collateral related to ClosingCorp’s family of Web sites. She also oversees the company's press releations, and is responsible for Closing.com's SEO strategy, usability analyses, community and social networking efforts.
A former journalist and Senior Editor at Time Warner’s PEOPLE Magazine in New York, Kristin has also held positions at Microsoft (Executive Producer of MSN/Sidewalk.com), Gateway Corporation (Director of Web Content and Portal Services) and Intuit, where she led a team of editors hired to make TurboTax software products the ultimate in user-friendly.
Kristin graduated from Lewis & Clark College with B.A. degrees in International Affairs and French.
 | Jennifer Koonce |
Jennifer is responsible for the delivery and implementation of software to support ClosingCorp’s network of Web sites and for leading the Customer Care group.
Jennifer joins us from Goal Financial, LLC, one of the nation’s top ten student loan providers, where she was the Project Portfolio Manager, assigned to manage the implementation of products supporting the company’s Student Loan portfolio. Prior to that, Jennifer was with Capital One Financial, a Fortune 500 company that offers a globally diversified set of financial services. There, she led U.S. Card Call Center Operations teams and managed a portfolio of operations and technology projects for U.S. Card and Auto Finance divisions.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with B.A. degrees in International Business and Spanish.
 | Julie Han |
Julie is responsible for developing, managing and executing business strategy, forming strategic alliances and parternships, identifying new business opportunities and executing contracts for Closing.com. She also plays a key role in the development of strategic products for real estate agents, lenders and consumers. Julie was instrumental in developing Closing.com's rate engines for key real estate services verticals.
Julie has expertise in residential and commercial real estate and has held broker and sales agent licenses in California, Colorado and New York. She has worked in several real estate offices, including Prudential California Realty, Willis Allen Real Estate, Keller Williams, and Hunt Real Estate Corporation. Prior to joining ClosingCorp, Julie served as Director of Research for the DC Hospital Association and as a Health Research Analyst for the Research Triangle Institute.
Julie graduated with a B.A. degree in Natural Sciences and a Master’s degree in Health Finance and Management from The Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the San Diego Association of Realtors, CAR and NAR.
