President
Prior to founding Zayd Media, Anthony deFigio led creative and technical teams for over ten years at some of the top design agenices in the Boston area. Mr. deFigio has spearheaded work in both print and online media for clients such as Motorola, the Smithsonian Institute, Cisco, Battery Ventures, Harvard University, and MIT. Additionally, his work has been instrumental in the growth (and sale) of many Boston-area high-tech, clean-tech, and software companies.

Tony’s work has appeared in numerous industry publications, including Print, American Corporate Identity, and Wired magazine. He teaches web design at the Massachusetts College of Art and has been known to occasionally jump out of airplanes.

Director of Technology
Michael Arner brings to Zayd Media over ten years of programming and computer science expertise, encompassing a wide variety of database and web technologies. As co-founder and former CTO of Marbles, Inc., he developed several products that broke new ground in wireless and remote computing. Today, he heads up technical strategy and development for all of Zayd Media's web applications.

Michael has a B.A. in Math and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has taught at Boston University and MIT, and is currently working on his second novel.

 

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