SMBLZ

Michael
CEO & Co-founder

Loves cult movies—especially John Waters.
YouTube junkie. (Faves: kitten & police-tasering videos.)
Literature major—but digs trashy sci-fi & horror over classics.

Michael Horton earned his stripes as a private banking executive, managing the delivery of elite client services and customized accounting systems tailored to niche industries—all with an eye on the bottom line. Michael then followed his passions for technology and business success into the online/interactive space, co-founding SMBLZ in 1999.

Since that time, Michael has guided a talented and diverse international team to create and implement transformative online marketing strategies and digital advertising campaigns for global brands such as Vodafone, Tesco, GE Money Bank, and Google.

When not working, Michael can usually be found indulging sideline passions for sushi and movies—often at the same time.

Michael has a BA (cum laude) in English literature from UCLA.

Josh
EVP & Co-founder

Spends 98.7% of typical day online.
Hurricane chaser.
Health & fitness fanatic.
Cruel disciplinarian.

Josh Morgerman’s professional experiences have emphasized a broad mixture of creative services and user-experience design, along with an overarching focus on customer satisfaction—values he took with him upon co-founding SMBLZ in 1999.

Josh’s diverse background includes executive positions in film production and magazine publishing, as well as management of large-scale interactive projects for Fortune 500 companies such as United Airlines, GE Capital Mortgage Services Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Vodafone (in multiple countries).

An admitted social-media junkie who spends way too much of his day in online forums and on Facebook, Josh digs elegant information design, lean-and-mean Facebook apps, and his biggest passion of all—cracking the secret code of high-octane brands.

Outside of SMBLZ, Josh is a hardcore hurricane chaser with a large portfolio of dangerous conquests across Mexico and the American Gulf Coast.

Josh has a BA (cum laude) from Harvard University with a concentration in History.

Bára
Managing Director,
SMBLZ Praha

Ferociously competitive golfer.
Food & wine lover.
Travel & sun enthusiast.

Bára Wagnerová began her career with SMBLZ ten years ago, when we opened our first office in Prague—and in true “American-dream” style, she climbed the company’s ranks via workaholism, gritty leadership, and a unique appetite for the crazy lifestyle of a busy digital agency.

During her time here she’s had a dual role, focusing on client services as well as internal production and process. She’s managed major marketing engagements for companies like Vodafone, British American Tobacco, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kraft Foods, and Centrum Holdings.

Outside of SMBLZ, Bara is the current President of the prestigious Czech Association of Digital Agencies, a trade organization aimed at connecting the top digital players on the market and forwarding the standards of Czech digital advertising.

Bara speaks several languages and has quite an international background, having lived and worked in Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Most importantly, she spent her senior year of high school in the USA. (What better way is there to get intimately acquainted with American culture?)

Outside of work, you can find Bara traveling around Europe and the USA—or at the golf course.

Bara has a MA in Marketing & Management from the University of Silesia.