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Date: December 13, 2010 Company: Orbis Education Executive: Clay Gillespie Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Orbis Education, a leader in the online healthcare-related higher education market, has named Clay Gillespie as Chief Marketing Officer. Clay comes to Orbis from Career Education Corporation (CEC) (Nasdaq:CECO - News) where he was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Media. Prior to his tenure at CEC, Gillespie was Executive Vice President of client services and business strategy at UnREAL Marketing Solutions, where he was responsible for spearheading the strategic direction of all client accounts with primary emphasis on SEO, paid search and online media (both CPM and behavioral). Clay also currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Education Marketing Council. Orbis has received funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Date: December 13, 2010 Company: Imperva Executive: Terry Schmid Position: Chief Financial Officer		Imperva, the global leader in data security, has named Terry Schmid as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Imperva, Terry was Chief Financial Officer at Coremetrics, which was acquired by IBM in 2010. Prior to Coremetrics, Terry was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Enterasys Networks where he was part of a leadership team that helped return Enterasys to growth and profitability after being taken private in 2006. Terry's earlier experience includes CFO roles at publicly-traded Turnstone Systems, The 3DO Company, and ONI Systems, as well as financial and consulting positions with Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Imperva is venture-backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and Venrock.
Date: November 29, 2010 Company: Johnson & Johnson Executive: Gail Horwood Position: Vice President, Digital Strategy & E-Commerce		Johnson and Johnson, the iconic global consumer and health products company, has named Gail Horwood to the position of Vice President of Digital Strategy and E-Commerce. Gail joins Johnson & Johnson from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she was Executive Vice President of Digital Programming and Strategy, she was responsible for strategic vision and execution of all digital products, properties and platforms, and outpaced the industry in revenue and visitor growth. Prior to joining Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Gail was Executive Director of InStyle.com; Executive Director, Creative Development of Time Inc. Interactive; Vice President, Global Content, Zagat Survey; and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning website Epicurious. She has also held editorial positions at Worth Magazine and Condé Nast Traveler. Johnson and Johnson has over 250 operating companies in 60 countries.
Date: November 8, 2010 Company: Simplex Healthcare Executive: Michael Iskra Position: Chief Operating Officer		Simplex Healthcare, the leading provider of diabetic testing supplies, has named Michael Iskra as Chief Operating Officer. Michael joins Simplex from CCS Medical where he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Diabetes Division, and led an organization of more than 1,000 employees and served as a member of the Office of the President. Prior to joining CCS Medical, he served as Vice President of Marketing, Europe at Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostic based in Dublin, Ireland . Michael has held many other positions within the healthcare industry at Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics and PSS Inc. Simplex has received funding from Lighthouse Capital Partners and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Date: October 13, 2010 Company: Digg Executive: Matt Williams Position: Chief Executive Officer		Digg, the leader in social news curation, has named Matt Williams as Chief Executive Officer. Matt was the Founder & CEO of LiveBid, which he successfully sold to Amazon in 1999 for a 10x return for investors, and then grew into Amazon's auction business. Matt has spent the last 10 years leading growth businesses inside Amazon, most recently as GM of Consumer Payments where he was responsible for the successful launch of PayPhrase, and before that as GM of WebStore where he grew Amazon's now billion dollar e-commerce platform. Digg has received venture funding from Highland Capital Partners, Greylock Partners, and Omidyar Network among others.
Date: October 12, 2010 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: Brian Kalma Position: Director, Usability & Interaction Design		Gilt Groupe, the invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named Brian Kalma as Director of Usability and Interaction design. Prior to joining Gilt, Brian was the driving force behind User Experience at Zappos for 7 years, most recently as Director of Marketing for Creative Services and User Experience. Brian joined Zappos in 2003 as employee #40, and the Company grew from $100 million to over $800 million in revenue while he was there leading up to their 2009 acquisition by Amazon. Brian started his career in advertising with Foote, Cone and Belding and J. Walter Thompson. Gilt's investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners, and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.
Date: October 12, 2010 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: Jason John Position: Senior Director, Online, Mobile & Social Marketing		Gilt Groupe, the invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named Jason John as Senior Director of Online, Mobile and Social Marketing. Jason joins from Redcats USA, where he most recently grew Redcats' online growth business, OneStopPlus.com, from $20 million $50 million as General Manager, and previously ran Redcats' $600 million online retail business as VP of E-Commerce. Jason started his online marketing career in 1999 as employee #3 at OneMade.com, and then spent a decade building best-in-class online and integrated marketing programs, first at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as Manager of Online Marketing and Customer Analytics, and then at J.Crew as Director of Online and Database Marketing. Gilt's investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners, and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.
Date: October 11, 2010 Company: Manilla Executive: Jim Schinella Position: Executive Vice President, Business Development & Sales		A division of Hearst, Manilla, which offers a new free service that will allow consumers to manage and organize all of their accounts, including household bills, finances, travel rewards programs and subscriptions, has named Jim Schinella as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Jim was most recently the Senior Vice President and head of Yahoo!'s North America Partnerships and Business Development. In that position, he was responsible for managing more than $2 billion in revenue, including the affiliate search distribution, broadband and local partnerships with the Newspaper Consortium. Before that, Jim was Global Vice President of Business Development for Yahoo!'s mobile and broadband businesses from 2003 to 2006. During this period, he established Yahoo!'s foothold in broadband and mobile by forging partnerships with industry leaders, including Bell South, SBC (AT&T), Rogers Cable, and Verizon and established Yahoo!’s first relationships with all U.S. mobile carriers. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was head of sales at SOA Software, an early Web services software company. He was also Vice President of Strategic Development at AOL Time Warner and started his Internet career managing Netscape’s Professionals Services Group in 1996.
Date: October 8, 2010 Company: Cardlytics Executive: Marc Ginsberg Position: Executive Vice President, Merchant Services		Cardlytics, the pioneer of transaction marketing within banking, has named Marc Ginsberg as Executive Vice President of Merchant Services. Most recently, Marc lead the Commercial division of DIRECTV where he was responsible for setting their place based media strategy. Prior to that, Marc served as Vice President of Business Development for Catalina Marketing Corporation. In this role, Marc worked with customer purchase data to develop highly targeted marketing and promotional campaigns for his clients. Marc started his career at Procter & Gamble and later worked as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting where he lead marketing and product development strategy projects in the retail and travel markets. Cardlytics has received venture funding from Canaan Partners, Kinetic Ventures, Total Technology Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners.
Date: October 1, 2010 Company: Predictive Biosciences Executive: Tom Ross Position: Chief Commercial Officer		Predictive Biosciences, a molecular diagnostics company developing non-invasive diagnostic products for informed cancer management™, has named Tom Ross as Chief Commercial Officer. Tom recently served as Vice President of North American MDX Sales at QIAGEN where he managed their major product lines and helped establish QIAGEN as a leader in infectious disease testing. Previously at Digene, he drove the rapid expansion of both physician and laboratory sales, and led the sales and marketing integration team for Digene as the company was acquired by QIAGEN. At Cambrex Corporation, a small molecule therapeutics based company, he was responsible for the commercial development of the $65 million contract manufacturing business. Predictive is privately funded by Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners , Kaiser Permanente Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and ProQuest Investments.
Date: October 1, 2010 Company: HomeRun Executive: Bob Olson Position: Vice President, Sales & Service		HomeRun, a leading online social buying community, has named Bob Olson as Vice President of Sales and Service. Bob joins HomeRun from Mobile Mini where he was Senior Vice President of the National Sales Center. Prior to Mobile Mini, he was Chief Customer Officer of Homestead Technologies which was successfully acquired by Intuit in 2008. Previously he was Vice President of Business Operations and Customer Strategies at GoDaddy Group, a leading software company that was the world market share leader in domain names, hosting, paid email services, DIY website applications and new SSL certificates. During Bob's tenure at GoDaddy, the company grew revenue from $39 million to $380 million serving over four million customers. HomeRun has received venture funding from First Round Capital and Foundation Capital.
Date: September 14, 2010 Company: Folica.com Executive: David Giacomini Position: Vice President, Marketing & Merchandising		Folica.com, the leading online store for hair care, has named David Giacomini as Vice President of Marketing and Merchandising. David joins Folica from The Territory Ahead, a division of Home Shopping Network, where he was Vice President of Marketing and E-Commerce. Before Territory Ahead, he headed Catalog Operations at Sierra Trading Post. David is also an entrepreneur, founding Jr. Luggage, which offered designer luggage and travel accessories for kids, and Idea Direct, an interactive marketing agency. He began his direct marketing career with Harry and David. Folica has received funding from The Stripes Group.
Date: September 14, 2010 Company: SVnetwork Executive: Nick Loria Position: Chief Revenue Officer		SVnetwork, the Web's largest performance brand advertising network and technology platform, has named Nick Loria as Chief Revenue Officer. A pioneer in digital media, Nick has built top-performing sales and marketing teams both nationally and globally. Most recently, Nick created, developed, and implemented revenue strategies for a number of digital startups including Massive, Joost, and TidalTV. As EVP and CRO at Massive, Nick recruited a global sales team and negotiated $1.6 million in billings with major advertisers before the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. As a Senior Vice President of Sales at Viacom, Nick’s leadership resulted in over $1 billion in ad sales for MTV Networks. Prior to Viacom, he spent eight years with Turner Broadcasting where he was Senior Vice President of the North America International Division. SVnetwork is backed by JAFCO Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.
Date: September 13, 2010 Company: Sonatype Executive: Wayne Jackson Position: Chief Executive Officer		Sonatype, the company that is transforming software development, has named Wayne Jackson as Chief Executive Officer. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Sourcefire and Riverbed, two of the most successful technology startups of the past 10 years. At Sourcefire, Wayne successfully took the Company from start-up to a public company within five years. Prior to his work with Sourcefire, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Riverbed Technologies, a mobile and wireless infrastructure company that he built from start-up to a category leader in less than two years. In 2000, he orchestrated the successful sale of the company for more than $1 billion dollars. Sonatype is venture-backed by Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler Ventures.
Date: August 26, 2010 Company: GoodGuide Executive: George Consagra Position: Chief Executive Officer		GoodGuide, the world's largest and most reliable source of information on health, environmental and social impacts of products and companies, has named George Consagra as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining GoodGuide, George was President of Scribd, the largest online social publishing site. Prior he was Chief Operating Officer of Bebo, a leading social networking site that was successfully acquired by AOL in 2008. GoodGuide is venture-backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson(DFJ), NEA and Physic Ventures.
Date: August 11, 2010 Company: Dapper Executive: Chris Zaharias Position: Senior Vice President, Sales		Dapper, a leading dynamic ad creation and optimization company, has named Chris Zaharias as Senior Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Dapper, Chris was Vice President of Search Sales for Omniture. Prior he was the second employee after the founders at Efficient Frontier. As Vice President of Sales at Efficient, he started, built and ran a U.S. & European Sales/BD team and helped make the Company a world leader in SEM with $750M+ in annual spend under management and 150 employees. Chris started his career as an early employee at Netscape. Dapper has received venture funding from Accel Partners.
Date: August 5, 2010 Company: Orbis Education Executive: Norm Allgood Position: Senior Vice President, Operations		Orbis Education, the leading provider of collaborative nursing education solutions, has named Norm Allgood as Senior Vice President of Operations. Norm joins Orbis after 10 years with the Institute for Professional Development (IPD), a Division of Apollo Group. There he served as Senior Vice President, responsible for the overall operations of the division. Prior, Norm managed the largest region of IPD as Vice President of the Northern Region. Before joining IPD, Norm was Chief Operating Officer of a start-up retail business, Escape to Paradise and started his career with Target. Orbis is venture backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Date: August 3, 2010 Company: VirtuOz Executive: Steve Adams Position: Chief Executive Officer		VirtuOz, the leading provider of virtual agent solutions, has named Steve Adams as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining VirtuOz, Steve was President and Chief Executive Officer at Sabrix, a venture-backed startup focused on delivering tax software to the Global 2000 and on-demand tax services to the small-to-medium business (SMB) market. At Sabrix he sustained top line revenue growth for seven consecutive years, transitioned the on-premise business to a subscription model, and launched the SMB on-demand offering as a technology. Prior to joining Sabrix in 2002, Steve was President and Chief Executive Officer of Uniscape. Previously, he was responsible for worldwide marketing at Novell and Citrix. VirtuOz has received venture funding from Galileo Partners, Inventures Group, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Date: July 19, 2010 Company: Posit Science Executive: Jim Kinsherf Position: Vice President, Partner Sales		Posit Science, the leading provider of clinically proven brain fitness programs, has named Jim Kinsherf as Vice President of Partner Sales. Jim joins the organization from Solera (NYSE: SLH), the leading global provider of automotive claims processing software and services, where he served as Vice President and General Manager for Hollander and was responsible for North American Sales and Service at Audatex, both wholly owned subsidiaries in the Solera portfolio of companies. Prior to joining Solera, Jim served as Vice President of US Sales at Mitchell International, a leading supplier of software and services in the property and casualty space. This was following a successful career at Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX) and CCC Information Services where he held various leadership roles in sales and service. Posit Science is backed by Aberdare Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Dupont Capital Management and VSP Capital.
Date: June 30, 2010 Company: iVillage Executive: Mike Skagerlind Position: Senior Vice President & General Manager		iVillage, the leading online destination for women, has named Mike Skagerlind as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Mike joins iVillage from Barnes & Noble.com, where he was Vice President and Head of Digital Content & Community, managing the development and integration of original book-centric content for BN.com. He also oversaw the Barnes & Noble Review, an online literary and arts journal, and the Barnes & Noble Studio, a video site centered around book news, and served as General Manager of Sparknotes.com, an ad-supported online study resource for high school and college students. Previously, Mike spent 12 years at Nickelodeon, where his last role was Senior Vice President and General Manager for nick.com. Mike held several international positions with Nickelodeon, including two years as General Manager of Nickelodeon in Australia. iVillage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NBC Universal, Inc., was established in 1995, had its initial public offering in 1999, and was acquired by NBC Universal in 2006.
Date: June 28, 2010 Company: RecycleBank Executive: Samantha Skey Position: Chief Revenue Officer		RecycleBank, the leading rewards and loyalty program that motivates people to recycle and to engage in environmentally virtuous activities by monetizing all consumer touch-points, has named Samantha Skey as Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, Samantha was CMO of Passenger, the social software innovator. Prior to Passenger, she built revenue at Alloy Media & Marketing. While in her role as the EVP Development, revenue went from under $100,000 to over $160 million, and the company went public in 1999. Early in her career, Samantha managed advertising and sponsorship sales for divisions of Disney and CNET. She began in digital marketing with Interactive Imaginations, now 24/7media.
Date: June 28, 2010 Company: Zuberance Executive: Ed Haslam Position: Vice President, Product & Marketing		Zuberance, the leading social marketing technology company, has named Ed Haslam as Vice President of Product and Marketing. Ed has been the founding marketing executive of three other venture-backed technology companies, responsible for launching the product, company, and brand, along with developing the channel to market, and overall corporate strategy. Most recently, he co-founded Ludic Labs and launched the social web application Diddit.com. Ed has also served in leadership roles at successful networking and database companies, including Vice President of Product Marketing for Orbital Data, Vice President of Product Marketing at Composite Software, and Chief Strategist for Inktomi Corporation. Zuberance is backed by Emergence Capital Partners.
Date: June 26, 2010 Company: Myxer Executive: Mike Carson Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Myxer, the leader in device, carrier, and platform-agnostic mobile entertainment, has named Mike Carson as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Myxer, Mike served as Vice President of Marketing for FTD.com’s $300 million consumer business, responsible for direct to consumer marketing, brand positioning, and social media. Before joining FTD, Mike developed customer acquisition and national direct response programs for the Allstate Insurance Company through his tenure at Ogilvy & Mather. Prior to Ogilvy & Mather, Mike helped launch the Orbitz.com brand in 2000 as an early employee of the Company. Earlier in his career, he worked at Leo Burnett where he did brand development, a Super Bowl ad and interactive lead generation for General Motors. Myxer, which has delivered over one billion downloads to date, is backed by Harris Preston Partners and individuals.
Date: June 24, 2010 Company: ServiceSource Executive: Ganesh Bell Position: Executive Vice President, Products		ServiceSource, the technology and market share leader in cloud-based service revenue performance solutions for technology, healthcare, and life sciences companies has named Ganesh Bell as Executive Vice President of Products. Prior to ServiceSource, Ganesh held several key positions at SAP, most recently as Vice President of Product Strategy & Management for the Business Intelligence & Technology Platform Group. He also served as Vice President of Portfolio Strategy at SAP, where he defined and coordinated product strategy for all technology products and new portfolio investment opportunities across SAP's diverse portfolio. Throughout his career, Ganesh has held key product, technology, and executive positions in leading enterprise software companies and startups. He was Chief Technologist at PeopleSoft, providing leadership in integrating its technology portfolio after the acquisition of J.D. Edwards, where he served as Chief Software Architect. Prior to J.D. Edwards, he served as Vice President of Products at YouCentric. ServiceSource is privately held and has received funding from Accretive, Benchmark Capital, General Atlantic and Housatonic Partners.
Date: June 16, 2010 Company: Bleacher Report Executive: Brian Grey Position: Chief Executive Officer		Bleacher Report, the fastest growing publisher of original and entertaining sports editorial content has named Brian Grey as Chief Executive Officer. Brian most recently served as an Executive-in-Residence at Polaris Venture Partners. Prior to Polaris, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of FOX Sports Interactive, where he oversaw the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of FOX Sports’ digital businesses, which included FOXSports.com, FOX Sports Mobile, Scout Media, and Whatifsports.com. While at FOX, Brian directed the expansion of FSI’s original video production and programming in concert with the FOX Sports broadcast and FOX Sports Net cable television groups. Prior to FOX Sports, Brian was General Manager of Yahoo! Sports, a role in which he spearheaded the site’s push into original editorial programming and growth into the Web’s clear-cut No. 1 fantasy sports product. He also served in a variety of executive roles at Netscape, AOL, and Shutterfly. Bleacher Report is venture backed by Hillsven Capital.
Date: June 15, 2010 Company: Contactual Executive: Wendell Black Position: Vice President, Worldwide Sales		Contactual, the leading global provider of hosted customer interaction management solutions has named Wendell Black as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to joining Contactual, he was Vice President of Contact Center Anywhere for Oracle, USA. In this role he was responsible for on-premise and on-demand contact center infrastructure solutions. Prior to Oracle, Wendell spent 4 years as President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Telephony@Work where he successfully led the growth of the company by a factor of 15X in 4 years prior to its acquisition by Oracle. Wendell's industry experience also includes roles at Nortel, Aspect Communications and Lanier/Harris. Contactual is venture backed by Leapfrog Ventures.
Date: June 14, 2010 Company: Alverix Executive: Ric Tarbox Position: Chief Executive Officer		Alverix, a leader in developing next generation instrument and connectivity platforms for diagnostic testing has named Richard Ric Tarbox as Chief Executive Officer. Ric has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with a proven global track record within the diagnostic and medical device segments. He joins Alverix having previously served as Vice President of Strategy Management at Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), a $96 billion health care services company that improves the cost-effectiveness of health care, helping pharmacies, hospitals and ambulatory care sites focus on patient care while reducing costs, improving efficiency and quality, and increasing profitability. Prior to his work at Cardinal Health, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Quidel, a worldwide leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing rapid diagnostic solutions at the point-of-care (POC) in infectious diseases and reproductive health. He was also Vice President of Strategic Sourcing and Business Development for the Healthcare Market Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO). Building upon a 30-year legacy within Hewlett Packard and Agilent, Alverix was spun off as a privately held company in 2007 and received financing from Safegaurd Scientifics and New Venture Partners.
Date: June 9, 2010 Company: Livemocha Executive: Michael Schutzler Position: Chief Executive Officer		Livemocha, a leading language-learning company has named Michael Schutzler as Chief Executive Officer. Michael served as Chief Executive Officer for Classmates Online Inc.'s social networking site Classmates.com, a company he grew from a small start-up to a nationwide brand before its sale to United Online in 2004. Prior to Livemocha, Michael founded CEOSherpa, a business coaching firm that helped small to mid-sized organizations capitalize on market opportunities, build strong executive teams and assist with financing strategies. Before CEOSherpa, he served as Senior Vice President at RealNetworks, leading the worldwide games, global marketing, advertising and sales divisions. Livemocha has received venture funding from August Capital and Maveron.
Date: June 1, 2010 Company: Xobni Executive: Peter Monaco Position: Chief Technology Officer		Xobni, the company that helps people search and manage their contacts in Microsoft Outlook and on mobile devices, has named Peter Monaco as Chief Technology Officer. Peter joins Xobni from Microsoft where he was Vice President of Application Engineering at Tellme which was acquired by Microsoft for $800 million. Prior to Tellme, Peter was a co-founder of Nuance (NUAN) in 1994 and helped take it public in 2000. He started his career in the Standford Research Insititute (SRI). Xobni has received funding from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Cisco, BlackBerry Partners Fund, Atomico Investments, Baseline Ventures as well as several angel investors.
Date: May 24, 2010 Company: Red Aril Executive: Jim Soss Position: Chief Executive Officer		Red Aril, an innovative online media and technology company focused on providing real-time audience and media optimization solutions to the digital advertising market, has named Jim Soss as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Red Aril, Jim was Vice President of Multichannel Marketing Services at Acxiom Corporation, where he was responsible for uniting global businesses that spanned both digital and traditional marketing. Jim initially joined Acxiom as Vice President and General Manager of Acxiom Digital (formerly Digital Impact) a leading digital solution provider and top twenty-five interactive agency. Before that, Jim spent several years with infoGROUP in Vice President roles within sales, business operations, client services and professional consultancy. Jim started his career in enterprise software and previously served as an executive with Starlight Networks, Sybase and Pansophic Systems. Red Aril is venture-backed by Sierra Ventures and Trinity Ventures.
Date: April 8, 2010 Company: Verinata Health Executive: Mary Barry Position: Vice President, CLIA Lab Operations		Artemis Health, developer of non-invasive prenatal diagnostic tests, has named Mary Barry as Vice President of CLIA Lab Operations. Prior to joining Artemis Health, Mary was the Vice President of Laboratory Operations for Cypress Bioscience, completing licensing and accreditation of the CLIA laboratory including the launch of two novel diagnostic products for the rheumatology market. Before Cypress Bioscience, she led AviaraDX’s operations group through the launch and licensing of a CLIA laboratory, allowing patients and physicians access to several gene expression profiles assisting in the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Beginning in 1996, Mary advanced to Vice President at Prometheus Laboratories, where she oversaw the laboratory from inception through growth to over $50 Million in annual sales. Prior to Prometheus, she held senior positions with a high volume plasma screening laboratory operated by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, with the Immunogenetics Department of the UCSD Medical Center, and with the Molecular Biology and Immunochemistry Department reference laboratory of The Scripps Research Institute. Artemis Health has received venture funding from Alloy Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Date: April 8, 2010 Company: Aria Systems Executive: Mike Morini Position: Chief Executive Officer		Aria Systems, the leading provider of on demand billing and subscription management solutions, has named Mike Morini as Chief Executive Officer. Most recently Mike was Head of Global Sales for SAP BusinessObjects, running a worldwide sales organization responsible for more than $1 billion dollars of revenue annually. He joined SAP through the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a leading provider of planning and performance management software, where he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for 6 years. Mike managed the company’s growth from 10 customers to more than 800 prior to the acquisition by SAP, with customer satisfaction above 99 percent. Aria Systems is backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Venrock.
Date: April 8, 2010 Company: Verinata Health Executive: Dr. Amy Sehnert Position: Senior Director, Clinical Research		Artemis Health, developer of non-invasive prenatal diagnostic tests, has named Dr. Amy Sehnert as Senior Director of Clinical Research. Prior to joining Artemis Health, Amy served as Director of Clinical Research and Development at CardioDx, where she conducted clinical studies in heart failure pharmacogenomics and established two US multicenter trials (PREDICT and DISCERN) enrolling over 5000 subjects to support genomic diagnostic test development in the areas of coronary artery disease and arrhythmia genetics. The PREDICT study lead to validation and release of a blood gene expression test used to evaluate patients with stable chest pain. Prior to her 5 years at CardioDx, she was assistant professor in pediatric cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she conducted academic research and published in the areas of heart development and inherited cardiomyopathies in children. As a pediatric cardiologist, she specialized in the diagnosis and care of newborns and children with chromosomal and genetic disorders including fetal diagnoses and reproductive counseling. Artemis Health has received venture funding from Alloy Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Date: April 7, 2010 Company: Invuity Executive: Philip Sawyer Position: Chief Executive Officer		Invuity, a leading developer of illuminated surgical instruments, has named Philip Sawyer as Chief Executive Officer. Philip brings more than 20 years of senior management experience in the medical device sector. He was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fusion Medical Technologies, a surgical sealant company that went public and was later successfully acquired by Baxter International. Previously, Philip worked in marketing roles in Stryker and Amgen. Invuity has received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Date: April 5, 2010 Company: Siri Executive: Gummi Hafsteinsson Position: Vice President, Product		Siri, developer of a virtual personal assistant for mobile devices, has named Gummi Hafsteinsson as Vice President of Product. Gummi joins Siri from Google, where he led the product development of several of Google's most successful mobile initiatives, such as Google Maps for mobile and Google Search by voice. Prior to joining Google, Gummi founded and was CTO of Dimon Software, which produced mobile enterprise connectivity software designed to enable enterprises to access corporate IT systems from any mobile device. Siri has received funding from the Li Ka-Shing Foundation, Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.
Date: April 1, 2010 Company: Cadent Executive: Roger Blanchette Position: Chief Financial Officer		Cadent, the leading provider of 3D digital solutions for the orthodontic and dental industries, has named Roger Blanchette as Chief Financial Officer. Roger was most recently Chief Financial Officer of DataSynapse, which was acquired by TIBCO. Previously, he spent six years with Concord Communications (NASDAQ: CCRD), where he was Vice President of Finance before and following Concord’s acquisition by Computer Associates. Prior to that, he held senior finance roles at Scitex America. Cadent has received venture funding from Fortissimo Capital, Apax Partners, Panorama Capital, STAR Ventures, and SV Life Sciences.
Date: April 1, 2010 Company: Become Executive: David Mullin Position: Chief Financial Officer		Become.com, one of the world’s largest comparison shopping companies, has named David Mullin as Chief Financial Officer. David brings over 20 years of experience in high-tech leadership to the position at Become.com. Prior to joining Become.com, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer of Borland International, SMART Modular, OnLink Technologies, Securify and NPTest. As Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer at SMART Modular, Dave helped the company grow from $150M to over $1B in revenue and took the company through successful IPO. Investors in Become.com include Texas Pacific Group, Transcosmos, and EFF.
Date: March 29, 2010 Company: Perimeter E-Security Executive: John Viega Position: Executive Vice President, Products & Engineering		Perimeter E-Security, the trusted market leader of information security services, has named John Viega as Executive Vice President of Products and Engineering. Prior to Perimeter, John was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering for McAfee's Software-as-a-Service business unit. Prior, he was McAfee's Chief Security Architect, where he worked on M&A and also owned McAfee's core technologies, such as anti-virus and the SiteAdvisor product. John previously founded and was Chief Technology Officer of Secure Software, which was acquired by Fortify. Perimeter is funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Stripes Group.
Date: March 11, 2010 Company: OurWeddingDay.com Executive: Steve Horowitz Position: President		OurWeddingDay.com, the ultimate online wedding planning resource, has named Steve Horowitz as President. Prior to joining OurWeddingDay.com, Steve was the Senior Vice President, Product & Business Development at Bankrate, Inc. where he helped to lead the company's growth that positioned the business for a successful acquisition by Apax Partners. Prior Steve was Vice President of eCommerce Classifieds for the American Online division of Time Warner. Earlier, Steve held various sales and marketing roles with Yahoo! which he joined thorough the acquisition of GeoCities, a leading community/web publishing destination. OurWeddingDay.com is a division of David's Bridal, the preeminent retailer in the wedding apparel market. David's Bridal is backed by investors who include Leonard Green Partners, Pilot Group Ventures, and Texas Pacific Group.
Date: March 10, 2010 Company: Zynx Health Executive: Mark Long Position: Chief Technology Officer		Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions has named Mark Long as Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Mark was CTO at PortBlue Corporation whose CommandAware® product is the leading product in the Hospital Incident Management market serving hundreds of facilities. Prior to PortBlue, Mark was at PayMyBills.com, where he led technology management from early stage prototype through processing $1M/day for the on-line bill payment product. PayMyBills won numerous "Best of Web" awards from Yahoo, Forbes, Kiplinger, and Time Digital. From 1988 to 1999, Mark worked as an engineer and leader in research and development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he specialized in distributed software systems, robotics, and control systems. Zynx Health a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation.
Date: March 3, 2010 Company: Pacific Biosciences Executive: Susan Barnes Position: Chief Financial Officer		Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, has named Susan Barnes as Chief Financial Officer. Susan has nearly 30 years experience in senior financial management. From 1997 to 2005, she was Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Intuitive Surgical. She started at Intuitive Surgical as its first full-time finance person during the company's early development stages, and retired when it was a public company with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. From 1994 to 1996, Susan was Managing Director of the Private Equity Group at Jefferies & Company. Prior, she was Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Richard C. Blum and Associates, a merchant banking company with more than $500 million in funds under management. From 1985 to 1991, she served as Chief Financial Officer of NeXT Computer, a company she helped start with Steve Jobs after serving as Controller of the Macintosh Division at Apple Computer. Pacific Biosciences has received venture financing from Alloy Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Maverick Capital, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Date: March 2, 2010 Company: Dapper Executive: James Beriker Position: President & Chief Executive Officer		Dapper, a leading dynamic ad creation and optimization company, has named James Beriker as President & Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Dapper, James was President & Chief Executive Officer of Efficient Frontier, a global technology leader in search engine marketing with over $750 million in global spend under management. Prior to Efficient Frontier, he held Vice President, Senior Vice President and General Manager positions at ValueClick [NASDAQ: VLCK], a provider of online marketing technology and services, and was the founder and CEO of Search123, one of the first pay-per-click search engine marketing platforms which was acquired by ValueClick in 2003. Dapper has received venture funding from Accel Partners.
Date: March 2, 2010 Company: SlideRocket Executive: Heidi Jackman Position: Chief Marketing Officer		SlideRocket, the first and only complete online presentation platform, has named Heidi Jackman as Chief Marketing Officer. Heidi is a senior marketing professional with twenty years experience in high technology marketing, e-commerce and product management. Heidi was most recently at Intuit and is recognized as one of the primary thought leaders for the online world, she created Intuit's first "Web Center of Excellence" and played an integral role in implementing Intuit's web first strategy. Prior to Intuit, Heidi was with Cruel World, an internet based recruiting company, where she was Vice President of Marketing Strategy. SlideRocket is venture backed by Azure Capital Partners and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Date: February 25, 2010 Company: Skyfire Executive: Jason Guesman Position: Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing		Skyfire, a leading provider of a browser for fast mobile navigation of media-rich web pages, has named Jason Guesman as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. For the past 6 years, Jason was Senior Vice President and GM at Seven Networks. He was responsible for multi-million dollar deals spanning major device manufacturers and carriers around the world. Prior to Seven Networks, Jason served as director of business marketing at Sprint PCS. Skyfire is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and Matrix Partners.
Date: February 22, 2010 Company: SVnetwork Executive: Jay Samit Position: Chief Executive Officer		SVnetwork, the leading social media utility that empowers people to benefit their causes by engaging with brands, has named Jay Samit as Chief Executive Officer. Jay joins SocialVibe with over 20 years of experience leading technology and media companies. He spent five years as Executive Vice President with Sony in charge of leading their digital strategy across all divisions globally. Prior he was with EMI Recorded Music as Senior Vice President of New Media where he built digital media profits from nothing to over $100 million. Prior to EMI, Jay was with Universal where he also built the business from start-up to a 140 person profitable division. He started his career with Jasmine Multimedia Publishing which he founded and successfully produced and marketed over 300 games and edutainment titles. SocialVibe is backed by venture capital firms JAFCO Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.
Date: January 28, 2010 Company: Adap.tv Executive: Toby Gabriner Position: President		Adap.tv, developer of a leading online video ad management platform, has named Toby Gabriner as President. Toby brings over 10 years of experience in the online advertising industry to his new role at Adap.tv. Most recently, he was President of Tribal Fusion, the digital marketing solutions company owned by Exponential Interactive. He has held executive leadership positions as the CEO of [x+1], a marketing optimization and media company, and President of Freestyle Interactive, an interactive advertising agency acquired by Carat Interactive in 2003. Toby served as COO before taking on the role of President of Carat Fusion, where he managed the interactive division of Carat in the U.S. market, including five offices, 275 employees and key clients including Adidas, Kodak, Pfizer, Philips and RadioShack. The company is privately held and backed by Spark Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and The Gemini Israeli Funds.
Date: January 20, 2010 Company: AccountNow Executive: James Jones Position: Chief Executive Officer		AccountNow, a leading Internet prepaid card issuer, has named James Jones as Chief Executive Officer. James brings to AccountNow 35 years of experience from the banking, consumer lending, payment processing and related financial services industry. He has garnered in-depth knowledge and expertise having served at Citigroup, Crocker, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Providian and GMAC-Residential Capital. In particular, Jones served as the President of Direct Banking at Bank of America. He was Vice Chairman at Providian and served as the CEO at GMAC-Residential Capital. AccountNow has received funding from Invesco Private Capital, Trident Capital and Venture Strategy Partners.
Date: January 11, 2010 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: David Zucker Position: Vice President, Customer Marketing		Gilt Groupe, the invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named David Zucker as Vice President of Customer Marketing, where he will be responsible for CRM & Analytics across Gilt's business units. Most recently, David was the Global Director of Customer Relationship Management & Implementation at Dell Inc, where he led Dell's CRM and analytics efforts in the B2C, SMB, enterprise, and public sectors. Prior to Dell, David was the Vice President of CRM at Home Shopping Network (HSN). He joined HSN from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where he was AVP of Marketing, Analytics, and Internet Operations. Prior to Martha Stewart, David was Director of Database Marketing at Priceline.com, where he built CRM, customer analysis, and customer segmentation for Priceline from the ground up. Gilt's investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners, and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick. *Promoted to Chief Marketing Officer In 2010*
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