Sitters.com Management Team

Mike Cravens is the Founder and CEO of Sitters.com, the #1 source for finding child care, pet care, tutors, housekeepers, and senior care. Mike started Sitters.com in October of 2000 after listening to parents talk about canceling their plans because they could not find a sitter. Sitters.com quickly grew from just an idea to the largest source of up-to-date care providers.

Focusing on safety, Mike created the All-Mom Editorial Team, ensuring that every single care provider and job posting is reviewed by a member the team before being made available on Sitters.com. Combined with provider references, free access to background checks, and provider reviews Sitters.com has gained recognition as the safest place to find care and service providers - recently rated by Parenting Magazine as the safest online site for finding care providers.

Continuing with the success of offering child care providers, Sitters.com recently expanded to offer pet care, tutors, housekeepers, and senior care providers.

Prior to founding Sitters.com, Mike was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps, earning numerous awards including the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Combat Action, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait).

While serving in the Marine Corps, Mike graduated cum laude from Campbell University with Bachelor’s in Business - Accounting. After the Marine Corps Mike worked at AOL, focusing on many areas including project management, product management, business development, marketing, and search engine optimization.

Christina M. Zulandi is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sitters.com, LLC. In this role, Christina uses her 15 years of consumer marketing and strategy experience to lead the company's brand and business expansion in the US. Her role also supports new business development, integrated marketing communications, and media relations.

Christina launched her career by working for a number of advertising and public relations agencies, including Edelman Worldwide, APCO Associates and Dittus Communications.

In 2000, she moved away from agencies and into the corporate world, where she served as a primary spokesperson for Network Solutions, Inc. and then began managing all marketing efforts for the .com, .net and .org Registry Business division.

In 2002, she joined AOL, Inc. where she played a pivotal role in building the marketing strategy and positioning for three boutique business lines - AOL for Small Business, AOL Black Voices and AOL Latino.

Most recently, Christina managed all North America marketing efforts for one of the largest enterprise integration software vendors in the world. Under her management the business group contributed to more than $45 million in revenues.

Christina holds a B.A. in Marketing from James Madison University.

Internet and technology industry executive Jeff Kimball brings more than twenty years of experience building, growing and operating successful Internet and start-up companies. With specific experience running Product Marketing, Program Management, Design, Operations, Technology and QA teams, Jeff provides guidance for all aspects of customer solutions and product delivery.

Most recently, Jeff was Senior Vice President of Product Development at Vive Computing (formerly NHC Systems, Inc.) where he was responsible for delivering complete solutions – product and technology – to help Vive fundamentally alter the way consumers and small businesses purchased, used and received support for computers.

Prior to Vive, Jeff spent 11 years at AOL where he held numerous positions developing at-scale customer, advertiser, and publishing solutions. At AOL Jeff led the business and product planning for more than 10 major releases of the AOL service; he was responsible for the product direction and delivery for the most successful consumer facing products AOL ever produced (including AOL.com, e-mail, instant messaging, search, parental controls). In addition to his work domestically, Jeff also led the unified European product and technology strategy – managing teams in London, Hamburg, Paris, Dublin, Luxembourg, California and Virginia.

Jeff holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

Cori brings an impressive blend of expertise in recruiting and retention, conflict resolution, employee relations, and performance management gained from a decade spent in challenging Human Resources roles in both the government and private sector. Having launched her career as the Manager of a 911 Center in Florida, Cori operates comfortably in complex, fast-paced environments.

Cori then worked in various Human Resources functions at TRW. Cori quickly moved up through the ranks and provided Human Resources Management support to over 250 employees at facilities throughout the U.S.

Cori spent five years in Human Resources for the CIA, where she resolved employee relations disputes, managed position and people movements, conducted performance analysis, implemented HR policy, and managed a large team. During her employment at the CIA, Cori was regularly recognized for her contributions.

Cori holds a B.A. in Organizational Management from Warner Southern College.