Executive Team
Anatoly Volkhover – Founder & CEO
A technologist and entrepreneur with 20+ years hands-on experience in social media, mobile technologies and large-scale enterprise solutions, Volkhover founded Manumatix in 2009 and is the leading charge behind the development of all things Manumatix. His philosophy for the company is to create products that simplify the tedious manual processes often associated in rolling out marketing programs and make them automatic – thus the name "Manumatix."
Since the inception of Manumatix, Volkhover has assembled an exceptional team of technology, sales, and marketing experts, and as such, is capable of delivering business and technology solutions with astounding speed and quality.
Prior to Manumatix, Volkhover served as CTO of Roundtrip Systems LLC, where he developed and successfully launched a sophisticated business travel provisioning solution. Earlier, he served as VP of Software Development at Fourth Dimension Software, with years of prior experience as an independent consultant.
During his career, Volkhover has delivered successful architectural solutions and managed products and projects for Travelocity, DERTour, Hitachi, Amadeus, Abercrombie & Kent, and numerous others.
Volkhover received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from St. Petersburg Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Johnny Miller - Chief Marketing Officer
Miller is a senior level executive with over 25 years of successful achievements in marketing, business development. A highly qualified business leader with demonstrated abilities functioning in fast-paced, highly competitive environments, Miller is an expert at managing cross-functional, cross-cultural teams, building strategic partnerships, hi-tech global distribution networks, and direct vendor relationships.
Miller's primary responsibilities at Manumatix include sales management, the direction of all public relations and marketing communications programs, and creating and implementing all advertising and promotions campaigns. Much of Miller's role is highly analytical including competitive intelligence, pricing, and market research functions. Additionally, Miller shares responsibility with other Manumatix team members with regard to product development.
Prior to Manumatix, Miller served as CEO of Jet Set Joe Corporation where he and his team developed an online travel club offering rebates to its members through an innovative loyalty program. The company licensed its services to affiliates, including credit card issuers, television, radio, and newspapers to offer their customers travel rebates. This same type of licensing approach is one component of Manumatix's marketing rollout.
Miller has also directed world-class projects at the University of Cambridge, UK, University of Seville, Spain, and taught as an adjunct professor at Nova University, Florida.
Miller earned his Bachelor of Science in Broadcasting/Business Administration from the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in 1985.
Advisory Board
Steven Elliot Altman – Board of Advisors
Altman, who currently serves as Game Director at Acclaim Games Inc., is a bestselling author, award-winning advertising executive, Hollywood writer-producer, and most recently a successful videogame developer, having served as the Game Director at Acclaim Games, and having won multiple awards for his massively multiplayer online role playing game 9Dragons, which boasts 15 Million registered players.
Advertising Executive: Altman began in the advertising field, amassing ten years of New York and Amsterdam based producing, consulting, advertising and marketing experience. As both producer and creative, Altman received numerous awards including three ADDY Awards (Best of New York) for his work with Avon and HBO, and a Silver Microphone award for his work with British Knights. Other satisfied clients included AT&T, ESPN, Microsoft, DC comics, HBO, Coca-Cola and MTV.
IT Executive: Altman then focused his efforts in the technology field, where he created many successful multimedia departments for existing Advertising Firms, including Anderson & Lembke, and helped established firms like Ingersoll-Dresser to develop their online business models, and served in multiple Director positions at new firms like Eurohealthnet (NL) and Metrixlab (NL) to help develop their business models from the ground up. In 2003, Altman became Vice President of Business Development for Virtual Language Labs, overseeing development of their collateral and market strategy.
Venture Capitalist: With fellow members of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise (New York's prestigious Internet think tank, which Altman joined in 1995), Altman then co-founded Start-Up Station PLC, a Venture Capital Firm in London that provided seed Capital to Israeli-based technology startups, assisting in their marketing efforts and helping them to develop their collateral to enter the marketplace. Altman helped Start-Up Station go public and begin trading on the London AIM in late 2000.
Bestselling Author: Altman's novels include Captain America is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, Batman: Infinite Mirror, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars and Deprivers. In reviews of note, his writing has been compared to that of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick, and he has collaborated with world class writers such as Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Harry Turtledove and Dr. Janet Asimov. He's also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Touch and a contributor to Shadows Over Baker Street, a Hugo Award winning anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories. Altman’s also a WGA member currently attached as Screenwriter / Executive Producer to the feature film of his novel Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires with director Russell Mulcahy (Highlander / Resident Evil) and three TV series in development: DEPRIVERS with director Andy Wolk (The Sopranos / The Practice) for Sony; CONTROLLERS with director Craig Baxley (Stephen King's Rose Red and Kingdom Hospital); and THE IRREGULARS (Dark Horse Productions).
Videogame Writer/Director/Executive: An avid gamer and award-winning writer, Altman was mentored in social game metrics by industry rock star David Perry. Altman's first game writing assignment was in 1996, writing the CD Rom DC Universe for Judson Rosebush (creator of Tron) in a seedy back room of Carnegie Hall. Altman was enticed to join Acclaim Games in 2005 during its inception and re-invention by former Activision co-Founder and Chairman Howard Marks, initially as the writer for 9Dragons and later as Game Director/Director of Marketing. Correctly assessing Altman’s business acumen and marketing experience, Marks gave Altman full directorial control of Acclaim's download division. Altman also wrote Facebook social games for Acclaim, including Mafia Payoff, and oversaw the hiring, training and content of all writers on all games, including Ponystars, MyDivaDoll and Tribal Nations, while managing staff in multiple global offices. In May 2010, Acclaim was purchased by Playdom, the fourth largest Social Game company, which in turn was about to be acquired by Disney. Playdom offered Altman a lucrative deal to stay on as producer of their showcase social network game Kogamu. Altman declined, choosing instead to form Dark Hermit Studios, and use his experience and resources to develop his own games. He remains a consultant on 9Dragons, and has been asked to write 9Dragons2. Altman was also recently elected as Vice-Chairman of the steering committee of the Writers Guild of America's Video Game Division, and served as a Finalist Judge for the 2009 and 2010 WGA Video Game Awards.
Gillian Muessig – Board of Advisors
Gillian Muessig is the President and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, providers of the world's most popular Search Marketing applications. SEOmoz.org serves a community of 300,000 search marketers around the world. The SEOmoz blog is read by 50,000 SEOs each month.
Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian has provided keynotes and sessions for conferences and seminars, including: SMX, A4UExpo, International Search Conference, OMS, IMC Stockholm, TiE, Champion Group, World Brand Congress, Miva Merchant, Affiliate Convention, PubCon, and others.
Gillian's radio program, CEO Coach, airs on Mondays at 10AM PST, covering entrepreneurial issues from funding and finance to staffing, marketing, pricing models, and brand development. She serves on the Board of Advisors for search marketing companies in four continents. In 2011, Gillian looks forward to serving on the WBJ 40 Under 40 selection committee.
Erik Qualman – Board of Advisors
Currently the Global VP of Digital Marketing at EF Education, and concurrently an MBA Professor at the Hult International Business School, Qualman is a frequently requested international speaker of the Fortune 500, having helped grow the digital capabilities of companies such as Cadillac, EarthLink, EF Education, Yahoo!, Travelzoo and AT&T.
His recently penned book, Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business, hit Amazon's #1 Best Selling List for the US, UK, Canada and Germany, and is now currently being translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese.
In his free time, Qualman is a featured columnist for ClickZ.com, the social blog socialnomics.net, and his work has been highlighted in numerous media outlets including BusinessWeek, The New York Times, CNET, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, USA Today, Forbes, CBS Nightly News, TED and The Huffington Post.
Qualman holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MBA from The University of Texas. He was Academic All-Big Ten in basketball at Michigan State University and still finds time to follow his beloved Spartans while living in Boston with his wife.
