About

Brew has been a serial entrepreneur his entire life. As a self proclaimed “geek translator”, his powerful business acumen allows him to communicate large business and technical visions to all parts of a company at all levels.  Brew has been a part of many innovative start-ups and has contributed to technologies that have pushed the limits of the current “now”. Rapid application development frameworks, content management systems and anonymous demographical profiling are just a few of the technologies he pioneered early in his career. Brew has a unique ability to predict and deliver technology needs ahead of the curve.

Brew’s passions for problem solving, streamlining, lateral thinking and entrepreneurism have made him a great asset to the organizations with which he has been associated.
In 1996, he started Cream City Communications, a full service web development and custom programming shop with hosting capabilities, with four other entrepreneurs.
In 1998, CCC purchased/merged 3i.net. This birthed CCCLIB – a library of reusable code that allowed rapidly deployed web solutions.
During the “dot com boom”, he was instrumental in helping to start nCognito, a Chicago based startup focusing on anonymous profiling of internet users across multiple sites. In 2000, his idea for reverse incubation of “dotcom companies” (providing the technology in exchange for ownership and then seeking additional capital) came to fruition by acquiring a large investor for CCC. Through venture and angel investment he helped to reverse incubate Latin Online, a Beverly Hills startup, focused on a bi-lingual portal site for the growing population of Latinos in the United States. In 2002, he sold CCC to the Shoumaker family in Phoenix, AZ staying on as a partner in a new company, Integral Productions. IP slowly migrated its existing customer base to packaged web solutions built entirely on the libraries created and began focusing on Meta Ordernet: a digital web-to-print solution for a sister company: Metagraphix. Metagraphix was purchased by First Edge Solutions in 2008. At First Edge Solutions, he has been a critical component to transforming a digital print company into an idea factory. Applying his vision of the agile company, Jonathan has helped First Edge Solutions’ culture shift by bringing talent closer to the customer and closer to production (removing the silos).

Today, Brew is working with a team of brilliant marketers, programmers, and experience designers on a revolutionizing product:  Meet-Meme: Social Networking Trading Cards.