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MANAGING STAFF

Jeannie Novak, President & CEO
Pete Markiewicz, CTO & Marketing Director
Richard E. Ragsdale, Director
Kevin Ragsdale, CFO

 

Jeannie Novak
President & CEO

jeannie@indiespace.com

Jeannie Novak is the founder and CEO of Indiespace, an Internet-based arts and entertainment company established in January 1994 that caters to the independent arts and entertainment market -- offering web hosting, e-commerce, promotion, marketing, and development services to independent musicians, filmmakers, authors, performers, and artists. An independent recording artist, music supervisor, and film composer, Novak released a 'cinematic classical' solo piano CD (Reign of Fire) and has supervised or composed music for over 20 independent features and shorts. An expert on Internet-based entertainment and marketing, Jeannie has also authored three nationally-distributed books on the topic -- Creating Internet Entertainment, Internet World Guide to Maintaining & Updating Dynamic Web Sites, and Web Developer.com Guide to Producing Live Webcasts. She was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in high-tech by MicroTimes magazine, and her success at marketing arts and entertainment online has been profiled by CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the LA Times. Novak has also been featured on the cover of The Zone News and My Business Magazine, is the founder of Indieflicks (a monthly film and music series), and is Conference Chairperson for IDG World Expo's Internet Entertainment Expo. Before founding Indiespace, she worked at A&M Records, MGM/UA, and Genuity. Novak graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a degree in Communication Studies (with emphasis on Business Administration). She is currently recording a follow-up solo piano CD and a vocal CD.

Pete Markiewicz
CTO & Marketing Director
pindiespace@gmail.com

Pete Markiewicz  grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developed an early interest in science and art. He showed his passion early on when he tried to convert a dishwasher into a submarine and once launched his pet mouse 6,000 feet into the air. Pete graduated from Loyola University of New Orleans with a BS in Biology. He went on to graduate with a doctorate from the University of Chicago with a thesis in Theoretical Biology. Among his many occupations, Markiewicz spent four years developing vaccines for the U.S. Army, taught himself how to program computers and wrote/performed a local 30-minute radio show. He then went on to spend five more years doing genetic research at UCLA where he helped developed a powerful method for "molecular engineering," wrote computer software for genetic analysis, and was an early user of the Internet. Markiewicz developed ethernet and Internet connectivity for UCLA's Life Sciences department and worked as chief web site administrator for other educational institutions. He is a certified Windows NT administrator and Mac C software programmer, and he is co-author (with Jeannie Novak) of the nationally distributed books Creating Internet Entertainment, Web Developer.com Guide to Producing Live Webcasts, and Internet World Guide to Maintaining & Updating Dynamic Web Sites (Wiley). He helped to co-found Indiespace in 1994, and as provided technical and marketing support ever since. Recently, Pete has developed the "Future of Entertainment" lecture series, and he has developed futurist theories based on generational analysis and its effect on the Internet. In his spare time, he works on his animation short -- soon to premiere on Indiespace!

Richard E. Ragsdale
Director

Dick Ragsdale has founded, operated and financed rapidly growing, successful entrepreneurial ventures. With his extensive experience in the IPO process, Ragsdale co-founded and took public Community Health Systems, Republic Health Corp. (hospital management companies), and ProMedCo (physician practice management firm). Ragsdale serves on the boards of numerous public and private companies, as well as non-profit and charitable organizations. He currently chairs the boards of The Metropolitan Nashville Hospital Authority, Maryville College, and Benton Hall School. Ragsdale has arranged financings and negotiated mergers and acquisitions ranging up to $1.4 billion.

Kevin Ragsdale
CFO

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Kevin founded the Garmonbozia Fund, LP in 1994. The fund has increased its net asset value from less than $750,000 to over $2.4 million. Ragsdale also serves as Investment Manager for The Ragsdale Family Foundation Fund, overseeing $5.4 million in assets. He currently records music for television and independent film.