About Involver:
Involver is a technology platform that companies of all sizes use to engage their audience on social networks. Our platform is the first complete marketing suite for Facebook, and powers social experiences for Audi, Snapple, Microsoft, GM, TIME, Ford Motor Company, Sundance Film Festival, American Eagle Outfitters, Turner Networks, Kenneth Cole, Snapfish by HP, Sunkist Soda, Guitar Center, Nike Basketball, and thousands of other companies.
If you're a brand or media company today, you're eager to ramp up your marketing on social networks, but you're not quite sure how to protect your brand identity while making sure your marketing efforts are highly effective and low-risk. Our patent-pending technology provides some of the world's biggest brands with the technology they need to solve this essential problem.
We help companies solve four problems:
- Engaging their customers, prospects, employees and other influencers on social networks
- Attaining attention of influencers through Earned Media
- Automating the process to lower the cost of investment in new employees and custom solutions
- Maintaining consistent branding and voice on multiple earned media platforms
Founding Team:
Rahim Fazal, CEO and Co-Founder, is a three-time entrepreneur. While still in high school, Rahim co-founded a web-hosting company and negotiated its sale for $1.5 million while taking his Senior Year final exams. He then started a web services platform business and eventually took it public, becoming one of the youngest directors ever of a publicly traded company in the United States.
Rahim completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business, the top ranked business school in Canada. In recognition of his prior achievements, he was the youngest student in the school's 80-year history to be accepted without a prerequisite undergraduate degree. He is a frequent and popular speaker to high school and college students across the U.S. and Canada. He is also an advisor to the Extreme Entrepreneurship Education Corporation in New York City.
Rahim was named one of America's "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" by Inc. Magazine in 2008, and one of the “Top 25 Digital Thought-Leaders” by iMedia in 2009.
Noah Horton, CTO and Co-Founder, is a seasoned software architect who has been programming for more than two decades. He has wide-ranging interests and expertise in video advertising, networking, and software development. After completing a Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, he worked for Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. He has filed more than 25 patents and published articles on development techniques in widely read publications, including the Java Developer's Journal.
At Microsoft, Noah was a Developer Evangelist for the company's Fortune 500 accounts. He was later the Program Manager for P2P protocols in Windows, and a member of the 9-person Networking Architecture Committee, which was charged with setting the technical direction of Microsoft's entire Networking division. His leadership at Microsoft earned him a Gold Star Award, given to the top 1% contributors at the company.
Before co-founding Involver, Noah was the software architect at NeoEdge Networks, an in-game advertising business. Among other things, he was responsible for designing many of the company's ad products. In September 2008, Noah was named one of America's "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" by Inc. Magazine.