Jeff Bianco

I have been working with outsourced software development teams in Kharkov, Ukraine for 19 years. Currently I have a team of 110 IT professionals and a scalable infrastructure. Best of all, it costs a fraction of what it would cost to develop the same products in San Francisco or Seattle or Los Angeles. I launched Dev-Pro.net to take what I have learned and offer similar services to select companies and partners at a price significantly below in-house teams or even other outsource providers.

AwardWallet helps users track their point balances in over 530 loyalty programs. It tracks points/miles related to Airlines, Hotels, Car Rental, Shopping, Dining, Credit Cards and many other categories. Currently tracking 27,000,000,000 miles/points for 125,000 users.

DomainOptions (www.domainoptions.net) owns a number of premium .net domain names including SpellCheck.net, Grammar.net, Thesaurus.net, Define.net, Reference.net and many others. It generates revenue through AdSense and affiliate programs. It also does SEO for its own properties and a select few external clients.

SpellChecker.net offers an web based Spell Check As You Type add-on for text boxes and HTML Editors. It is used by many of the top CRM and CMS providers. Customers include Salesforce.com, Oracle, OpenText and many others. It is also used by educational institutions such as Boston College and corporate intranets such as Advocate Health Care.

TravelConfirm is a travel related start-up that will bring unique technology to airline, hotel and car rental bookings.

Digital River acquired CustomCD in January 2008. I ran the CustomCD division of Digital River. We make on-demand CDs and DVDs for the software, games, photos, webmail industries. We had offices in Portland (Oregon), Krefeld (Germany) and Kharkov (Ukraine).

CustomCD.com provides customized burn-on-demand solutions for software companies and DVD video producers. We ship from Portland (USA) and Krefeld (Germany). We offer high quality, full color CD labels and mailers for about half the price charged by the competition.

Validio Software was a Software Development firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It employed over 200 developers in Kharkov, Ukraine.

In 1996, concurrently to running GraphicCorp, Jeff founded CD LabelCorp. CD LabelCorp sells approximately $750,000-$1,000,000 a year worth of CD Labels, Labeling Software and Label applicator tools. 90% of that is on an OEM basis, with customers such as Adaptec/Roxio, Sony, Ricoh, Yamaha, and others.

MakeUsAnOffer.us provides innovative turnkey e-commerce and promotion solutions for software companies. By allowing customers to name their price, our solutions enable software businesses to increase their revenues by selling to consumers who would otherwise not have purchased. And our affiliate network provides companies with the ability to further broaden their distribution to reach new customers. Partners include Broderbund Software, Ashampoo, eBlocs, Zoner, Omniquad and others.

Software-License.us provides licensing services for software companies small to medium sized software companies looking for retail distribution. It primarily brings together European software companies and US based retail software publishers. Its clients include Ashampoo.com, Zoner.com, GetRight.com, Omniquad.com, and Mt66.de. Recent deals have been made with Take2 Interactive, XSGames.biz, Broderbund Software, Valusoft, Enteractive and others.

In 1993, Jeff Bianco founded GraphicCorp, which grew into the world's largest OEM supplier of clipart, photos and web images to software publishers and hardware manufacturers. As the President and CEO, he negotiated over 200 software license agreements. He negotiated software license agreements worth greater than $250,000 with these companies: Microsoft, Epson, Corel, IMSI, Sierra Online, Mindscape, Broderbund, Valuesoft, Globalstar Software and Nova Development.