Nick Matzorkis, Serial Entrepreneur. ZabaSearch Founder; ClipBandits Guitarist
| ZabaSearch and ZabaSphere founder Nick Matzorkis, a serial entrepreneur, is best known as the founder of US SEARCH, the first easy and affordable service to help people locate long lost friends and family members. Founded in 1994 as a home business, US SEARCH grew to 400 employees by 1999, when the company's IPO, valued at $160 million, landed US SEARCH on the NASDAQ and on the world stage as the #1 people locator service in the world. As the first company to access and sell public record information directly to the public, US SEARCH enjoyed spectacular success under Mr. Matzorkis's leadership. In 2001, Mr. Matzorkis and fellow board member Nicholas Rockefeller left US SEARCH to start GlobalAgora-China. Considered the first U.S.-based technology company to launch operations in the People's Republic of China, GlobalAgora was first to bring wireless shopping in mainland China. After his success in China, Mr. Matzorkis's interest turned once more to the public information industry, and in 2002 he sold GlobalAgora to an international syndicate of investors. That same year Mr. Matzorkis co-founded PeopleData with longtime business partner Robert Zakari, and in 2005 they teamed again to launch ZabaSearch, the first company to provide the same kind of easily accessible friends and relative locator services to ordinary people that Matzorkis invented at US Search, but with one very important difference: It's free. In addition to his widely recognized (and at times controversial) reputation as the leading innovator of direct-to-consumer public records information for a fee and for free, Mr. Matzorkis has founded, managed and been involved in an eclectic variety of additional businesses, including web development, television and music production and distribution, musical and theatrical artist management, and telecommunications technologies. Less known to the public Mr. Matzorkis serves so widely are his generous philanthropic contributions, and his creation of and participation as a guitarist in the band ClipBandits, generally regarded as the world's first web band. And that's not all: Mr. Matzorkis was executive producer of a song collection written and performed by Madonna. His company Web Sites Now helped Hollywood studios, and production and management companies learn about and get on the web when they had no idea what the fuss was all about. And in 1997 appeared on numerous news programs to describe his involvement in being alerted to and then, with an employee, discovering the deceased members of the Heaven's Gate cult, which committed mass-suicide. For the fuller story on Nick Matzorkis ‹ his invention of and involvement in the generally misunderstood (and often misrepresented) public record search industry, as well as his many other widely varied and interesting, entertaining and at times controversial activities and accomplishments visit nickmatzorkis.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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