Ross Kimbarovsky, crowdSPRING

Ross Kimbarovsky co-founded crowdSPRING - The Creative Marketplace. A huge community of creatives from more than 140 countries work on crowdSPRING, helping businesses with creative needs. When it launched in May 2008, crowdSPRING disrupted traditional methods of buying creative services by allowing clients to choose from actual designs, not from among bids and proposals. By providing a level playing field for creatives, where success is based solely on talent, crowdSPRING has opened incredible opportunities to creatives around the world who previously had few opportunities to compete in the traditional creative industries.

Kimbarovsky emigrated to the United States from Kiev, Ukraine in 1979. Prior to co-founding crowdSPRING, he was a successful trial attorney. He consulted and represented clients in complex disputes involving intellectual property in United States state and federal courts and before the World Intellectual Property Organization. In 2006, he was named an Illinois SuperLawyer® and one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch" for intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Passionate about technology, Kimbarovsky decided to pursue his dream by co-founding crowdSPRING.