About Us

Speak Music was founded by passionate entrepreneurs from Google, Zynga and Monster who bring those rich experiences to its strategy and product innovation.

Speak Music is part of the Stanford StartX Accelerator.

Mark Anderson, CEO

Co-Founder and CEO, Mark is a mobile and digital technology business veteran focused on delivering multimedia solutions to consumers and enterprises. Mark’s background includes leadership positions at Zynga where he was Head of Mobile Advertising, HipLogic as CEO, Ericsson as VP, Internet Mobility platforms and has been involved in multiple start-up exits both IPOs and M&A.   Mark is a Graduate of Duke University and UCLA Executive Business programs and holds a BA from SJSU.

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Zak Mandhro, CTO

Co-Founder and CTO, Zak Mandhro is a business leader and technologist who was the head of Mobile Ads Partner Technology at Google, where he led new ads products from concept to launch – generating over $300MM in revenue. His past achievements include leading two startups to acquisition, serving as COO of a DFJ portfolio company and delivering technology solutions for Fortune 500 valued over $750M. Zak is a graduate of Stanford University.

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Dean Summers, CRO

Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Dean Summers has been a Senior executive and Entrepreneur in consumer hardware, retail, Internet software and enterprise for the last 30 years. He is passionate about building product and services companies that disrupt industry standards and business models. Dean was VP of Monster’s audio product strategy after founding Partstore.com, the venture backed technology company that he grew from concept to $60m in revenue and which was then acquired by Best Buy in 2006. As an accomplished musician, Speak Music brings together Dean’s passions of technology and music.

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