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Razorfish, Inc. Overview | History | News | Officers & Employees | Location & Subsidiaries | Products/Operations | Competitors & Industry | Financials | Search OVERVIEW Razorfish is sucking up the tank's other inhabitants in its efforts to dominate the Internet design aquarium. The New York City-based company specializes in high-end Internet development for large corporations, and the all-encompassing services that go with it -- consultation, implementation, and enhancement. Its capabilities range from redesigning Web sites to developing intranets and e-commerce applications. Razorfish's clients include Charles Schwab, eBay, theglobe.com, Time Warner, the Smithsonian Institution, and Ericsson. Razorfish, which touts its services as "digital change management," flaunts its flamboyance and stands out even amid the myriad new media bohemians that make up Silicon Alley. Its decor includes meeting areas fashioned around diner booths and a shrine to obsolete PCs. The attitude is not lost on employees, who can bring pets to work and are the recipients of weekly pizzas and massages. The company has grown out of its guppy stage by swallowing Internet development firms, building both its customer and geographic bases. It is also expanding its technology capabilities to include wireless, satellite, and broadband communications favored in mobile phones, pagers, and other digital devices. Following Razorfish's planned IPO, shareholders of Sweden's Spray and advertising agency Omnicom Group will each own 33% of the company; co-founders Jeffrey Dachis (CEO) and Craig Kanarick (chief scientist) will each own 10%. HISTORY Jeffrey Dachis and Craig Kanarick grew up together in Minneapolis, sharing nursery school, religious classes, and youth groups. The boyhood buddies left their hometown and took separate paths -- Dachis as the head of a guerrilla marketing company (dubbed In Your Face) and Kanarick as a digital media consultant -- before bumping into each other again in the mid-1990s on a New York City corner. With Kanarick as the idea and design man and Dachis driving business matters, the duo began Razorfish in 1995, naming the firm after a keen-edged tropical fish. Razorfish started small, doing freelance Web design work out of an apartment. Dachis waited tables at a Tribeca diner some nights. Razorfish quickly became known for its dynamic graphics (Kanarick graduated from MIT's Media Lab and was well-versed in simulation software). Dachis and Kanarick, who by 1996 had moved shop to a SoHo loft, sold a chunk of Razorfish that year to Omnicom Group in a move to gain capital and access to financing. The company's Web designs began attracting the attention of large clients like Time Warner. In 1997 Razorfish was hired to redesign Charles Schwab's online trading site. Also that year Dachis formed Razorfish Studios, a separate entity created to develop and distribute art, computer games, books, screen savers, and other digital media-based original content. The company expanded like a pufferfish in 1998 through the purchase of five new media companies, including London-based specialists Sunbather and CHBI, and US-based companies Plastic and Avalanche Systems. Also that year Razorfish moved into the broadcast and film production markets, adding a group specializing in broadband video design and production. Acquisition-related expenses put Razorfish in the red for fiscal 1998. In January 1999 the company bought Swedish rival Spray, doubling Razorfish's size and expanding its European presence. Later that month it filed to go public. NEWS & COMMENTARY Current News for Razorfish More News OFFICERS & EMPLOYEES President, CEO, and Treasurer: Jeffrey A. Dachis, age 32, $109,000 pay VC, Chief Scientist, and Secretary: Craig M. Kanarick, age 32, $109,000 pay Chairman: Per I. G. Bystedt, age 34 VC: Jonas S. A. Svensson, age 31 Chief Creative Officer: Peter Seidler, age 40, $114,500 pay CFO: Susan Black, age 32 EVP, Business Affairs and General Counsel: Michael S. Simon, age 35 EVP, North American Operations: Jean-Philippe Maheu, age 35, $138,500 pay EVP, European Operations: Thomas L. Randerz, age 42 EVP, Global Intelligence and Knowledge Management: Evan Orensten, age 33, $126,416 pay EVP, Mergers and Acquisitions, Europe: Johan Ihrfelt, age 31 EVP, Research and Development: Tucker Viemeister Director, Human Resources: Elizabeth Semple Solutions Manager: Claire Brown Executive Producer: Ian Rhett Auditors: Arthur Andersen LLP 1998 Employees: 210 (est.) LOCATION & SUBSIDIARIES Headquarters: 107 Grand St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10013 Phone: 212-966-5960 Fax: 212-966-6915 Web Site: razorfish.com Razorfish has operations in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US. ipocentral.com | ||||||||||||||
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