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John Parres is a co-founder of Pho, an extremly influential on- and off-line community of people interested in sharing ideas relating to the convergence of entertainment and technology, is an avid photographer, and a really nice guy.

John has held a variety of traditional and new media positions. In a career that began in the Warner Bros. Records mailroom, John grew to oversee Bertelsman Music Publishing's Film & TV licensing division, worked A&R at Warner Special Products and managed major and independent label artists on Geffen, BMG and Cargo Records.

John was also an early advisor to Michael Robertson at MP3.com, a beta developer for Macromedia, a multimedia producer for Disney Online and an Internet advisor to Michael Ovitz. John oversaw the development effort for the "Mall-in-every-song" Internet links infrastructure project at AudioTrack Watermark Solutions Corp.

John has also dabbled in politics serving at the top of Michigan State's student government and serving as Grassroots Coordinator for Jerry Brown's 1992 Presidential bid.