Ari Burton

Ari Burton (born August 23, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) independent analyst, reviewer, writer, President of Corporate Headquarters, Inc.. Also writes The Burton Report tech / news/ information blog (www.TheBurtonReport.com).

Background

In June of 2008 Ari Burton had an idea to Start a charity from the ether. The genesis of the charity rose from the social networking site Twitter.com and his other blog sites. Here, he posted from concept to a full functioning charity, complete with IRS 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt status.

So Ari Burton shared his idea and thoughts with some personal friends on the Twitter.com micro-blogging social networking site. He is @AriBurton there. He reached out to @PopGloss, @Barely, and @Allianak. All agreed to join Ari Burton in the project and serve as members of the board of directors of the new charity. ALL OF them being 100% UNSALARIED. QIK.com was the first corporate sponsor to rise to the occasion to help Ari Burton get the new charity get started. Since then they have incorporated as a not-for-profit in the state of Wyoming, completed and filed with the IRS for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, and moving forward quickly. The charity website is www.TheNonProfitOrganization.org.

Education

K-12 : From the years 1968–1993 Ari Burton attended private home school. His studies, while including a general educational background, expanded into other interests such as Creative Writing, Creative Marketing Strategies, Art, Copy Writing, and Computers/Technology.

Business Experience

During the years of 1994-1996 Ari worked at Fisher Space Pen Co. in Las Vegas, Nevada as an Executive Webmaster. There he was charged with a number of responsibilities. Among them was developing the companies first internet website, promotion and advertising of the website, conversion from print to web based catalog, increased brand recognition, and by reputation, increased sales. After an executive decision to move web design and updates in house, Ari left the company.

From the years 1998-2000 Ari worked for Elite Chess, Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida as the President of Marketing & International Sales. There he was responsible for developing creative marketing campaigns, initiating and maintaining contact with international suppliers, Creative copy writing in all advertisements and Executive consultant to the President / C.E.O

Concurrent with this job during the years of 1996–2000, Ari worked for Spectropolis.com, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada as a Marketing Director. In fact, he was the one who was responsible for creating the Spectropolis (Spectacular Metropolis) Brand Name. He Designed the original corporate logo, developed a full website complete with online E-Commerce shopping, assisted the President in making B-2-B contacts with other marketing directors in order to populate the online shopping mall with merchant stores.

The CEO of Spectropolis.com, Mr. Chris Ball, also a professional witness in construction defects (Ball Construction Management) decided to focus his efforts on his litigation business. Ari Burton then took control of Spectropolis.com, Inc. and became C.E.O.

From the years 2000-2005 Ari took the reins of Spectropolis and was responsible for re-designed corporate logo,developed multiple brand names under the corporate umbrella, created SpyTouch secret spy software. (SpyTouch.com), created Vitamin Cocktail brand liquid vitamin supplements, an original brand name. (VitaminCocktail.com), created BlazingTraffic.com a bulk traffic resource for webmasters, created LoveSanta.com, letters from Santa for children at Christmas.created ChocolateChess.com, 100% edible chocolate chess sets, and created 6DX.com, a free URL forwarding service.

In 2005 Ari Burton shut down Spectropolis.com, Inc. because it really didn't realize his expectations. Ari Burton then created Corporate Headquarters, Inc..