Cyan Banister

CEO, Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Cyan was born into a family of artists and grew up around paint, photography and music. From these beginnings, she developed a life-long appreciation for the arts that eventually inspired the Zivity platform. This platform she created is a new way for artists to profitably connect directly with their fans in the rapidly changing digital media landscape.

Cyan has held many leadership roles throughout her career, from leading technical operations teams in an enterprise software company to helping women master technology as CTO of a nonprofit organization.

Andrew Keller

Director of Business Development & Artist Relations

Andrew has over 13 years of experience in sales & business development. At Zivity, he manages strategic partnerships, content acquisition and artist recruiting, blending his appreciation for art with his formidable business skills. Prior to joining Zivity, Andrew held executive sales positions at Kronos, Qwest, and USWeb/CKS and sold millions of dollars of enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies, while consistently exceeding annual sales quotas. He has a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is an avid surfer.

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.