Zivity

Scott Banister

Chairman & Co-Founder

Scott built his career by identifying new markets and shaping innovative products for them. In 1995, he identified search engines as a significant advertising medium and invented the first products to automate marketing across multiple search engines, ultimately creating the bid-for-placement business model used by GoTo/Overture (and now Google AdWords) and serving as VP Ideas at GoTo-incubator Idealab. As an initial investor and Director at PayPal, he was a co-inventor of the ‘email payments’ product now widely used on eBay. In 2000, Scott saw opportunity in the unbounded growth of email traffic, co-founding IronPort Systems and serving as CTO. Now the market leader in anti-spam technology, IronPort was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007.

English Babs

UK Ambassador

Not a stereotypical model, I came rather late to modelling after bringing up my family. From early childhood my parents encouraged me to be myself and to be creative, and Zivity has given me a wonderful opportunity to express myself through my modelling. One of the things I love about Zivity is that it embraces the female form in all its many different shapes and sizes, without the prejudices often shown by the media towards their ideal of somewhat anorexic-looking teen and twenty-somethings. Zivity is a site for real women, ordinary women like myself, not just supermodels. We should be proud of our femininity, our own individual beauty, and it is wonderful that Zivity gives us this unique opportunity to demonstrate our art and creativity, each of us in our own special way.

Now I would like to tell you a little about myself. I live in the north-west of England, a very beautiful part of the country. I have 5 grown-up children, 4 daughters and a son, and am very proud of all of them and the wonderful adults they have become. I am a full-time carer to my 90 year-old mother-in-law, who has lived with us for the last 3 years, since she became unable to care for herself any longer. In my spare time I love to keep fit and exercise, and go to circuit training classes 3 times a week to help me keep in shape. I also love to dance, and take weekly lessons in ballroom and latin dancing. As well as this, I love to swim and go for long country walks with my very energetic English setter, Leo. I love cooking and reading, and have a keen interest in languages. As well as English, I speak fluent French and Spanish, as well as fairly good Italian, and a little German and Portuguese.

Zephyr_love

Oregon Ambassador

Zephyr was born in Spain to two Navy photographers and traveled across the continental US before finally landing in Hawaii where she grew up. Having grown up in Hawaii she was exposed to a wide variety of arts, foods, languages and lifestyles. She began studying Japanese language and culture in elementary school and continued through college. She’s a Jill of all trades having done all things from Auto body repair to Zivity. Though her current specialty is in Banking she studies in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology and has a deep appreciation for all things female. Zephyr finds the female body both beautiful and fascinating; it is the symbol of beauty and life. She spends a lot of time dabbling in the arts as it is her escape from the world. She enjoys music, photography, painting, drawing, theatre, writing…all forms of art really. She especially enjoys taking photos of inanimate objects to highlight the things people take for granted, making industrial art out of completely recycled materials and sharpening her graffiti art skills. Zephyr takes pride in her ability to view the world in a satirical from taking tongue and cheek stabs at everything. Her wit and thinking on her toes abilities make her a brilliant add to any team and her flirtatiousness, charm and adorable ways will win your heart.

Justice91423

Southern California Ambassador

Justice91423 is an experienced photographer living in Los Angeles, California. He has been active with the Zivity website for three years, and has won several of the contests sponsored on the site. As a Zivity Ambassador, he is enjoying helping to create buzz for the website and introducing it to a whole new group of photographers and models and contributors. He recently launched a podcast, “Zivity Close Ups,” on which he interviews models and photographs and chats with them about their work.

OkiDokiOkami

Texas Ambassador

OkiDokiOkami resides in San Antonio, with the hopes to relocate to Austin soon in order to further her modeling career. Okami has been glamour modeling since she turned 17. She decided to join ModelMayhem after following the work of Miss Mosh and Corwin Prescott for a few years. Right after she turned 18, Okami was asked to participate in her first nude shoot, and never looked back! About a year after she began shooting nudes, Okami was working with the photographer ThingsToLookAt and was invited to join Zivity. Okami has had the chance to really grow as a model because of Zivity, and has even had the chance to work with Corwin Prescott, who inspired her modeling career. Okami hopes to bring many new artists to Zivity and to continue spreading her art with the world.

JessiTetzloff

Illinois Ambassador

Jessi is a headshot and portrait photographer located in Chicago, the "Windy City." She earned her degree in Commercial Photography from Harrington College of Design. She grew up in a small, rural town of Indiana. As a child, she was a corn-fed tomboy with overzealous dreams. When asked the usual question of, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", her simple response was always, "A star." This childhood dream, as most childhood dreams do, morphed a bit over the years. Instead of becoming "a star", Jessi instead began creating them with her talents of photography and photo-editing. As an adult, she finds the utmost pleasure in helping people love themselves by exposing their true beauty and accentuating their most beautiful features. She works with new and rising models as well as people that simply want to test the waters. To Jessi, the most rewarding part of her work is to hear the reactions of her clients , whom will often say, "Wow! I didn't know I looked like that!"

Sally

Georgia Ambassador

Sally has always had a deep connection with the arts. Growing up she would try her hand at painting, acting, singing, piano, anything to distract from life's monotones. Not always successful, what she lacked in skill she would make up with passion. Life eventually led her in a different direction and art became a hobby, practicing whenever she had time. Having not traveled much, an inspiring trip to San Francisco would introduce her to modeling. The trip was special for a few reasons but most notably was the goodbye breakfast shared with her sister Cyan Banister. Cyan would reveal the soul of Zivity, still a young project, to Sally. It would be a community, different from anything out there. "Every woman wants pretty pictures of herself!" Cyan quotes an unknown model. Sally knew this to be true. She would fly back home and begin her journey.