Founder
Scrollmotion Inc
Josh Koppel is founder and Chief Creative Officer of ScrollMotion, a media and technology company that develops digital platforms for the world’s leading text book, children’s book and magazine publishers. Responsible for the creative direction of the company, Koppel has driven ScrollMotion’s technology development with the singular mission of preserving the art and culture of print in the digital publishing business. Drawing on a multimedia background that has included extensive broadcast, film, digital and print media production, Koppel brings a clear editorial vision to ScrollMotion’s leadership and product development teams. Prior to ScrollMotion, Koppel was founder and executive producer at Josh Koppel Productions, a full service branding and production firm specializing in creating broadband video for media companies. He has produced work for AMC, Adult Swim, Comedy Central and MTV, among others. Prior to Josh Koppel Productions, Koppel was co-founder of Tunebooks, a digital music packaging company which was adopted by Apple in the iTunes music store as the industry standard for digital music collateral (liner notes, album art, posters, etc.). His work developing scrolling album artwork for the first generation iPod ultimately paved the way for the technology behind ScrollMotion’s reader applications. Before starting Tunebooks, Koppel was an on-air promo producer for Oxygen Media. His career began at Sony Online Entertainment, where he was an online producer. Koppel is also the author of the genre-bending Good Grief, a graphic novel/memoir for the digital age published in 2000 by Harper Perennial. Koppel received a bachelor of arts in English and fine arts from Amherst College.