Spindle Names Brian Sathianathan to Advisory Board

SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwired - Apr 25, 2017) - Spindle, Inc. (OTCQB: SPDL) ("Spindle" or the "Company"), an emerging provider of comprehensive digital commerce solutions, today announced that Brian Sathianathan has joined the Company's advisory board.

Sathianathan is an accomplished technology entrepreneur and investor well known in the Venture Capital community. From 2001-2008, he worked at Apple where he became one of the early key members of Apple's Secret Products working on the iPhone. After architecting and building their internal enterprise platforms and security applications, he moved into the consumer product area and led software development teams at Apple's Secret Product (NPI) group for a few years. His team worked on the first iPhone's security and provisioning system that outlasted against device unlock attacks. 

After leaving Apple, he was the Founder & President of Avot Media which enabled streaming video into a wide variety of mobile smartphones and tablets, where he oversaw both local and international revenue growth, resulting in a sale to publicly traded Smith Micro.

In 2011, he joined Turner Broadcasting, and helped start its Media Camp, Turner's startup incubator that focused on investing in and developing digital-media startups. During his tenure, the group engaged on the business side resulting in 13 seed investments into media startups.

In November 2013, he cofounded Iterate.ai (https://www.iterate.ai/), an innovation lab for emerging technologies. Iterate discovers and curates emerging technologies, then implements proof-of-concept tests (a.k.a. proof-of-value tests) for a global partner base. Close partners include a few dozen large companies representing beauty, media, accessories and apparel, DIY, and footwear categories representing $600 billion in revenue. For large companies, Iterate reduces the time, costs and risks associated with analyzing and deploying innovative startup technologies. At the same time, startups get special visibility and credibility.

Brian Sathianathan stated, "I'm excited to join the Spindle team at what I believe is an opportunistic time. Having just completed the sale of my company CoverCake, I have a strong vested interest, along with Spindle management, in our collective success. I firmly believe that the combination of the strengths of the CoverCake machine intelligence and backend solutions will dramatically enhance both data procuration and refinement for the CATALYST Platform. This is as a very positive and tangible step towards the mutual creation of a powerful and disruptive digital commerce engine that should provide enhanced marketing tools for CATALYST's internal programs and their merchants alike, driving revenue for both."