Brad Pelo

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Brad Pelo
Born (1963-02-06) February 6, 1963 (age 61)
Missoula, Montana
Alma mater Brigham Young University
Occupation(s) CEO and founder, i.TV
SpouseMelody Pelo [1]

Brad Pelo (born February 6, 1963) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and co-founder [2] and chief executive officer of i.TV, the company behind tvtag, a second screen app for iOS. [3] Backed by Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Investments, DIRECTV, [4] and others, [3] i.TV is also behind the popular namesake app for iOS [5] and Android, [6] and co-created Nintendo TVii for the Nintendo Wii U. [7]

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Pelo has founded or been a member of the founding team at a number of companies, including Folio Corporation, [8] Ancestry.com, [9] and NextPage. [10] He also served on the board of directors of Tokyo-based D&M Holdings, the holding company for leading audio brands including Denon, Marantz, McIntosh Laboratories and Boston Acoustics. [11] Pelo is also a movie producer [12] and live event producer. [13]

Early life and education

Brad Pelo was born in Missoula, Montana, graduated from Orem High School and attended Brigham Young University. [1] While in High School Pelo founded his first company and was featured in The New York Times Magazine , [14] McCall's and SUCCESS magazine as a “teen tycoon”. [1]

Career

In 1987, Pelo co-founded Folio Corporation with his brother-in-law Curt Allen. The two partners met with success in 1988 when they struck a deal with Novell stipulating that the company would bundle Folio’s software with every NetWare operating system it sold. [8] Pelo served as the president of Folio until its acquisition by Mead Data Central, Inc., provider of the Lexis-Nexis computer-assisted research services, in 1992. [15] Pelo later was one of the founding team members of Ancestry.com and served as CEO of Ancestry.com’s parent company, Western Standard Publishing. [16]

Pelo later served as president and publisher at Bookcraft, a Utah-based publishing house. [17] He then founded NextPage, a compliance and information risk solutions provider. [10] After that Pelo served as executive producer of a number of feature films including The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003), Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy (2006), and Forever Strong (2008), co-starring Sean Astin. [12] He continues to be a partner in the production company behind the latter two films, Picture Rock Entertainment. [18] In 2008 Pelo co-founded i.TV, a social television and second screen company, where he serves as CEO. [19] As CEO Pelo has secured partnerships for the company with AOL, [20] GetGlue, [21] Entertainment Weekly magazine [22] and Nintendo. [7] From 2004 to 2010, Pelo served as the senior executive producer of Utah’s largest annual event, the Stadium of Fire. [23]

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