Brad Pelo

Brad Pelo was born in Missoula, Montana, graduated from Orem High School and attended Brigham Young University.[1] While in High School Pelo founded his first company and was featured in The New York Times Magazine,[14] McCall's and SUCCESS magazine as a “teen tycoon”.[1]

In 1987, Pelo co-founded Folio Corporation with his brother-in-law Curt Allen. The two partners met with success in 1988 when they struck a deal with Novell stipulating that the company would bundle Folio’s software with every NetWare operating system it sold.[8] Pelo served as the president of Folio until its acquisition by Mead Data Central, Inc., provider of the Lexis-Nexis computer-assisted research services, in 1992.[15] Pelo later was one of the founding team members of Ancestry.com and served as CEO of Ancestry.com’s parent company, Western Standard Publishing.[16]

Pelo later served as president and publisher at Bookcraft, a Utah-based publishing house.[17] He then founded NextPage, a compliance and information risk solutions provider.[10] After that Pelo served as executive producer of a number of feature films including The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003), Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy (2006), and Forever Strong (2008), co-starring Sean Astin.[12] He continues to be a partner in the production company behind the latter two films, Picture Rock Entertainment.[18] In 2008 Pelo co-founded i.TV, a social television and second screen company, where he serves as CEO.[19] As CEO Pelo has secured partnerships for the company with AOL,[20] GetGlue,[21] Entertainment Weekly magazine[22] and Nintendo.[7] From 2004 to 2010, Pelo served as the senior executive producer of Utah’s largest annual event, the Stadium of Fire.[23]

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