Our Team
Matt Howard, Co-founder and CEO
An experienced and successful software entrepreneur, Matt Howard conceived of ZoomSafer in September 2008 following a distracted driving incident in which he nearly killed a nine year old boy.
Together with his co-founders, Matt has developed a patented software application to ensure safe and legal use of mobile phones while driving. Prior to founding ZoomSafer Matt co-founded SMBLive where he served as CEO until March 2009 and led the company’s rapid evolution from start-up to innovative provider of online marketing software for small business owners.
Matt previously served as Vice President of Business Development at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft), and as Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at USinternetworking (acquired by AT&T).
Matt has a certificate in Innovation Management from the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, a Masters in Telecommunications Administration from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s in Political Communications from The George Washington University.
To learn more about Matt you can connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, or Linked-in.
Mike Costello, Co-founder and COO
Mike Costello is a seasoned software and systems development executive who is responsible for building Zoomsafer’s products and service capabilities. Mike is a former Accenture partner where for 20 years he built and delivered a range of systems in support of clients in the wireless industry. To learn more about Mike go here.
Mike Riemer, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Michael Riemer has more than 20 years of executive management, product management and business development experience in the wireless and software industries.
Prior to founding ZoomSafer Michael led product marketing and strategy for Trust Digital, a venture backed policy-based mobile security company. From 1993 to 2000 Michael led product development at Nextel where he served as a key force in enabling first-to-market technologies including Nextel Communication’s next generation wireless packet data network, the first mobile IP network, Push to Talk, WAP Browsing, Mobile Social Networking and Mobile MSN supported by a $600M investment from Microsoft. Earlier in his career Michael helped to pioneer Paragraph International’s handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton.
To learn more or to connect with Michael please visit him here on Linked-in.