iCubis Development Team

P. Joseph (Joe) Shumaker Jr.- New Hope Products Company, Inc. (NHPC) president> iCubis creator and principal investigator

Steve Huskins- partner and advisor

John Ferland - Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) president> business development partner and advisor

Valarie Lamont - University of Southern Maine (USM) assistant dean of the School of Business> business development partner and advisor

Timothy Brooks- Integra Strategic Technologies president> web site and database development partner

Ed McKersie - ProSearch president & founder> business development advisor

Phil Fremont Smith - AnswerSmart.com CEO> business development advisor

Jane John- OnPoint Research president> traditional market research

Christophe DeGregory- cgCraft president> logo and animation

Ognjen Nikolic- Ogo Sense, LLC CTO> current web site development project manager

Joe Shumaker - is the President of NHPC, a Maine-based product development business since 1990. Joe has learned first hand the many difficulties of inventing and selling creativity and ideas in many different industries. His successes AND failures have helped him get to this point with iCubis and together provided the motivation behind iCubis.

Joe has invented hundreds of products and business ideas since first establishing NHPC in 1990.  Joe specializes in games and currently has 17 game products licensed with 5 different major producers.  More than 2 million units of his games have been sold.  He creates for some of the biggest brands and some of his products are sold at most big box retailers and also through online and specialty toy & game outlets.

Joe licenses all concepts direct to producers and usually does this through agents.  So Joe knows very well this part of the industry.  He has a lot he hopes to teach you at iCubis about this very difficult industry...