Dympol (pronounced "dim-ple") is an acronym for - Discounting Your Music Purchases On-Line.

Dympol is the vision of Founder, Jay B. Ziskrout, a former punk rock drummer (Bad Religion, Electric Peace) who went on to build and lead music and media companies on three continents.

The company is developing a potentially revolutionary new service that promises to solve the serious problems facing three interrelated market players: Online Consumers, Brand Marketers and Content Owners.

Consumers need to find ways to save money without being inconvenienced or inappropriately marketed to. Brand marketers need an efficient and measurable way to use entertainment to reach hard-to-reach but relevant consumers. Content owners like record labels and independent artists need tools to help them market to consumers more directly and intelligently and to take control of the pricing of their own physical and digital products.

In response, dympol is building a mutually beneficial ecosystem rooted in a scientific approach to providing users with sponsored discounts as they shop for music and other entertainment media online. Our micro-sponsorship platform is powered by patent-pending algorithms that simultaneously and randomly allocate variable discounts to users and analyze the results to provide content owners with actionable consumer price sensitivity data

The company is based in New England with offices in both Vermont and Cambridge, MA.

Jay B. Ziskrout, Founder & CEO. Prior to founding dympol, Jay operated Sonic Vista, an entertainment consulting firm, served as COO of music industry publisher, event producer and brand marketer, The CMJ Network, launched (Netherlands based) Epitaph Records International as Managing Director, and rose through the ranks to the position of Vice President of Promotion for Arista Records/BMG. Foreshadowing the imminent explosion of both the U.S. Hispanic marketplace and digital distribution of music, he founded, in 1999, LatinoVision.com, one of the first sites to offer interactive music discovery and e-commerce of music in the mp3 format. As a musician, Jay was the founding drummer of such bands as Bad Religion and Electric Peace. He holds a B.S. Business Administration

John Piekos, TechnologistJohn Piekos has over 20 years experience managing software development teams. John has expertise in e-Commerce search, navigation and merchandising, and has invented patent-pending technology that allows for gestureless mapping of products to consumers. John has held technical leadership positions including Director of OpenEdge Database Division at Progress Software, VP, Web Engineering at EasyAsk, and Director of Web Engineering and Chief Architect at Novera Software. Piekos earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Lowell.

Travis Storch, Business DevelopmentTravis has an extensive background in the strategic development of emerging companies. His experience includes Business Development, Artist Relations, Marketing & Promotions, and Licensing in the online, mobile and gaming space. Prior to Dympol, Inc. Travis directed Artist & Label Relations at iLike.com, and Live365, and also worked with ZooZ Mobile, OMGpop.com, and Overlay.tv. Travis has been an invited guest speaker for national events such as CMJ, SxSW, and the Nashville New Music Conference. As a musician Travis has recorded and toured nationally with bands such as Crossfire, Auryn and Stereo Suite. He holds a B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies (Business Marketing and Music).

Dr. Jason D. Hartline, Ph.D., Scientist At Large. Jason is an expert in Theoretical Computer Science, Game Theory, Market Design and Economics. As a substitute for traditional algorithmic and distributed systems approaches, Jason has worked in the design and analysis of auction mechanisms and pricing algorithms that address game-theoretic and economic issues relevant to today's Internet-centric market reality. For the last four years, Jason has worked with Microsoft Research, in Silicon Valley but, in January 2008, will be commencing professorship at Northwestern University in Chicago. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Aladdin Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Jason received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2003 and B.S.s in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1997. Jason has authored dozens of scholarly papers covering a variety of subjects directly related to dympol's endeavors in the area of auction-based pricing and campaign.

The company is financed by a group of individual investors (including company principals, advisors, friends and family) lead by Jeffrey W. Ubben.

Mr. Ubben is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based investment partnership with more than $6 billion in assets under management. Previously, he was a Managing Partner at Blum Capital Partners and spent eight years at Fidelity Management and Research, serving both as a research analyst and fund manager. Mr. Ubben has also served on the boards of Martha Stewart Omnimedia (as chairman), Sara Lee, Acxiom Corp., Misys PLC, and Gartner, Inc