Executive Bio
Fabian Schonholz joined Internet Brands in 2010 and is responsible for vBulletin, a community building software package, installed in over 70 thousand sites around the world. Previous to Internet Brands, Fabian served as the Chief Technology Office and Architect of Zumbox, the first digital postal system, delivering mail to an physical address proxied by digital mailbox.
Before joining ZumBox, Mr. Schonholz was the Chief Technology Office at Hoodiny Entertainment Group, a digital media and social networking company featuring web properties targeting primarily the young Hispanic audience, where he was responsible for product definition and development, online and digital operations and technology. As the CTO, Fabian helped in the development of partnerships with Telefonica (Hoodiny powers the Music and Community channels at www.terra.es), Warner Music Latina (www.miwml.com) and EMI.
Before its acquisition by Apax Partners, Mr. Schonholz was the Vice President of Technology for Pictage, Inc. where he was responsible for all areas of technology including System Architecture, Design, Development, System and Web Operations and International Operations. Prior to Pictage, Mr. Schonholz was a Principal at FES Consulting, a technology strategy and systems consulting firm working with domestic and international clients. Clients included Disney Imagineering, L.E.K. Consulting, The WindsEye, and others.
Before FES, Mr. Schonholz was the Chief Java Software Architect at XYLAN, a networking hardware manufacturer where he designed and implemented a distributed Network Management System that scaled to over 1 million managed ports. Previous to XYLAN, Mr. Schonholz was the Manager for Server Software at Disney OnLine. Prior thereto, Mr. Schonholz had two small tenures at JPL and Netcount, and during 1994 and 1995, Mr. Schonholz worked at Prudential Group Insurance – WGO, as a member of the Information Superhighway Committee, where he developed a series of web based applications in Perl, C/C++, HTML and syBase.
Mr. Schonholz graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993 with a B.A. in Mathematics.
