Meet the Cell Journalist Team
Parker Polidor, CEO
Parker founded Cell Journalist in August 2005. An inveterate entrepreneur, Parker was co-founder/president of Mountain Valet, the first parking management company in Vermont serving ski resorts. Mountain Valet grew from three employees and one account to seven locations with over 40 employees across three states. Parker has traveled to 37 countries and participated in humanitarian missions to Asia and Central Africa. He graduated from David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. with a degree in economics/finance and a minor in computer information systems.
Colin Polidor, COO
Colin oversees all the operational and financing activities of Cell Journalist. He previously served as an operations manager for Towne Park, a parking management company serving the hospitality industry, where he implemented operational procedures to increase profits by 30 percent year after year. In 2002 Colin co-founded Mountain Valet, the first parking management company in Vermont serving ski resorts. Colin holds an MBA with an emphasis in entrepreneurship from The Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University and a B.S. in information systems with a minor in management from David Lipscomb University.
Steve Sabato, EVP
Steve heads up the business development and marketing aspects of Cell Journalist. He has more than 25 years of experience in broadcasting, film and new media. His areas of expertise are media content and brand creation, program and business start-ups, restructuring existing media businesses, and strategic planning. Under his direction, WKRN has received national media recognition for being one of the most innovative and leading new media stations in the country. Previously he was vice president/general manager at WNEM-TV and WNEM-AM News Radio in the Flint-Saginaw, Michigan DMA.
Ray Capp, Director
Ray has over 22 years of executive leadership experience in the distribution, publishing and entertainment industries. Ray served as COO at Ingram Entertainment from its founding to over $1 billion in sales, and as EVP at Thomas Nelson Publishers, one of the top 10 publishers in the English language. With considerable experience with mergers and acquisitions, product development, and marketing, Ray is highly regarded as an insightful strategist and a no-frills operator. Ray is also a successful author and inventor.
Mike Hassell, Director
Mike has held executive management and marketing positions in new ventures for the past 18 years. Mike served as CEO for several Vanderbilt start-up companies, and held the positions of VP Marketing for MedPearl and president of Slingerland Drum Company. After receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and beginning his career in marketing at Proctor & Gamble's brand management, Mike received a Harvard MBA and then launched his entrepreneurial career.
