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Josh Bevan is an entrepreneur with extensive background in Media and Information Systems, and business experience that spans the globe, including Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Ukraine, and Vietnam. He is an accomplished business strategist and operations manager, and has a proven track record in seeking and implementing organizational efficiency and cost reduction.

In college Josh studied business, Asian culture, digital media, and film. In 2000 he graduated with a Bachelors of Multidisciplinary Studies from North Carolina University and in 2008 he received a Master’s degree in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix. He was introduced to HTML in 1994, published his first Web site in 1996, and began streaming video online in 1999. He also received a certificate from Duke University as a Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW).

Josh worked in the Internet and Information Systems field until 2006, when he left a Director of Information Technology position at Adhesion Technologies to manage full-time Brahma Beverage Distribution, Inc., a company he had founded in the preceding year. In the months that followed the business grew to over 600 wholesale accounts across North Carolina. The company also gained a foothold in vending with customized machines, designed by Josh, which accepted credit cards and were wirelessly connected to the Internet. This revolution in vending machine technology allowed the company to remotely monitor sales, inventory, and system status.

In January 2007 Josh sold the business, founded A Clever Cartel Productions, Inc., began consulting at Speed, and hired a small overseas development team to begin building and expanding in-house Web sites.