Plutoz :: The Magazine

Ali Ghafouri is an experienced entrepreneur with more than 17 years of experience in the retail and marketing sector. He was the youngest member in one of the largest retail chains in the world and developed some of the most comprehensive marketing programs and received numerous sales and marketing awards. He founded NetClearly in 2000 by integrating traditional media (print) and new media (Internet search) into a single channel to help companies maximize their reach to the consumer market. His unique idea led to the development of NetClearly magazine in 2004 and the Plutoz search engine in 2006. Ghafouri is continuing the expansion of the print magazine and search engine into markets across the nation and the world by delivering more refined, transparent, and credible content to the consumer. This will help facilitate and expedite more robust consumer-driven transactions online. As an experienced retailer and marketer, Ghafouri has a clear vision and understanding of both the consumer market and advertisers goals. Ghafouri has developed NetClearly and Plutoz into their fourth year of operation without outside debt or financing. He has a strong discipline in cost structure and the desire to maximize efficiency and delivering value to the consumer and advertisers. Ghafouri holds a B.S. in Business Management and an MBA in marketing from Golden Gate University.

Tom brings vital technical skills to the Plutoz team, and is committed to providing outstanding technology in support of rich content for Plutoz users. With diverse expertise, Mr. Stolz has more than 16 years of technology experience, ranging from large-scale enterprise database management systems to professional custom software solutions. Since 1990 Stolz has held several key positions in enterprise data base application as a corporate system analyst. He began as an application developer, and in the mid 90s worked on a large-scale data base system development for Federal Express. He later joined MCI as system analyst for the corporate revenue system and then helped lead Qwest Communications as data base developer / analyst for a customer management system in the wireless division. Stolz has also been a consultant for the State of California in developing data base systems for main frame and client server systems and lately has served with Ciber as a developer for court management systems in data base application systems. Stolz earned his BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas.