Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder of Granicus Group and Founder/ CEO of Mojo Supreme, a digital media, technology and services company with interests in vertical and video search, online publishing, the production of original video content for the Web and Wireless markets, matching technologues as well as a growing blog network, BloggerMojo.

A finance graduate from one of the top colleges in the nation, Ashkan started his career as in-house finance analyst at one of the original meta-search engines on the Web, Mamma. From there he worked in the online publishing industry where he headed up advertising sales for AskMen, generating $10M millions of dollars in sales which culminated with the $13.5M sale of the company to News Corporation.

Anchored by the WatchMojo and MetaMojo web properties, Mojo Supreme was founded in January 2006. Ashkan writes a popular blog covering the convergence of technology, advertising and the stock market over at HipMojo. He is the author of Course to Success: Everything You Need to Succeed Beyond School and The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness. His articles have been published on MSN, AOL and Yahoo and has been quoted in Forbes, the BBC and numerous other publications and programs.

Milestones

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• 6/1/05 — IGN Acquires AskMen

Sources

1. IGN Entertainment Acquires AskMen.com, the Internet's Leading Male Lifestyle Web Site (corp.ign.com) [edit]