We are Yo

Joe Zekas

Joe Zekas works at adding to his used-to-be’s: dirt-poor Pennsylvania coal-town kid, shortest in class through 8th grade, New Jerseyan, hitch-hiker, motorcyclist, statistical typist, library clerk, delivery boy, classical scholar wannabe, gas station attendant, tuxedo salesman, psychiatric aide, social worker, civil rights activist, draft-dodger, gun-toting truck driver (Brinks), bartender, temp secretary, Lucey’s Raider, Wisconsinite, large-firm attorney, real estate developer, condo converter, tax shelter syndicator, multi-level marketer, married person, newspaper publisher, money-losing tech gadfly, software developer to name a few.

Joe is Chairman of Data Based Ads and dabbles in YoChicago.

Joseph Askins

Joseph Askins is the managing editor of YoChicago and a contributor to NewHomeNotebook. After graduating from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Joe spent a few lost months in Albany Park in ‘03 and ‘04 before returning to his native Arkansas to start work as a newspaper reporter. He eventually returned to Chicago in 2007 and now calls Bucktown home. He spends his free time sorting and resorting his CDs and DVDs, starting books he’ll never finish, and working slowly toward a master’s degree in library science.

Anish Jethmalani

Anish Jethmalani is the sales manager for YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com. He has worked with the Yo team since 2004 in advertising sales and marketing. A Chi-Town native, Anish loves to treat out-of-town guests to everything that is “Chicago” including deep dish pizza, Second City, Italian beef, the Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Green Mill, and much much more. In addition to working for Yo, he also works as an actor appearing on the stages of many Chicago theatres.

He’s a proud alum of Loyola University Chicago, where he received his degrees in Economics and Theatre Arts. He also attended the Oxford School of Drama in England.