Education
Brad Pelo was born in Missoula, Montana, graduated from Orem High School and attended Brigham Young University.
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Career
He also served on the board of directors of Tokyo-based Doctorate&M Holdings, the holding company for leading audio brands including Denon, Marantz, McIntosh Laboratories and Boston Acoustics. Pelo is also a movie producer and live event producer. While in High School Pelo founded his first company and was featured in The New York Times Magazine, McCall"s and SUCCESS magazine as a “teen tycoon”.
The two partners met with success in 1988 when they struck a deal with Novell stipulating that the company would bundle Folio’s software with every NetWare operating system it sold.
Pelo served as the president of Folio until its acquisition by Mead Data Central, Incorporated., provider of the Lexis-Nexis computer-assisted research services, in 1992. Pelo later served as president and publisher at Bookcraft, a Utah-based publishing house.
He then founded Nextpage, a compliance and information risk solutions provider. After that Pelo served as executive producer of a number of feature films including The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003), Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy (2006), and Forever Strong (2008), co-starring Sean Astin.
In 2008 Pelo co-founded i.TV, a social television and second screen company, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. As Chief Executive Officer Pelo has secured partnerships for the company with America Online, GetGlue, Entertainment Weekly magazine and Nintendo.
From 2004 to 2010, Pelo served as the senior executive producer of Utah’s largest annual event, the Stadium of Fire.
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Backed by Union Square Ventures, RRE Ventures, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Investments, DIRECTV, and others, i.TV is also behind the popular namesake app for iOS and Android, and co-created Nintendo TVii for the Nintendo Wii U. Pelo has founded or been a member of the founding team at a number of companies, including Folio Corporation, Ancestry.com, and Nextpage. Pelo later was one of the founding team members of Ancestry.com and served as Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry.com’s parent company, Western Standard Publishing.
