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12/17
Andrew Gelman has left the hallowed walls of NBC as a Senior Talent Attorney to assume the exciting role of Director of Business Development at Powerful Media Inc. agelman@powerfulmedia.com. In his new role he will be spearheading the effort to source and execute content, marketing and distribution partnerships. Founded by Kurt Andersen, Michael Hirschorn and Deanna Brown, the company is in the business-to-business entertainment information space and its flagship product will launch in the Spring of 2000.
Paul Kontonis will be the Director of Internet Solutions and Strategy at Bessen, Tully and Lee. He will be responsible for creating an interactive division, an internet services strategy and bringing in new business.
Loren Pomerantz has moved over to Middleberg + Associates, working with Rob Argento to develop a Media Strategy department that will work with most of the accounts in the agency, as well as serve as a training ground for new employees.
Lauren Giglio will be joining Thesquare.com as their new Marketing Manager, beginning January 4, 2000. lauren.giglio@thesquare.com.
Marni Kotak has assumed the role of Director, Business Development & Marketing at Black Hammer Productions in Soho.
HotSocket, Inc. (www.hotsocket.com), the leading provider of direct response marketing on the Web, announced the appointment of John Ripa, formerly Senior Vice President of Sales of infoUSA (NASDAQ: IUSA), as Vice President of Sales.
TAHO Commerce Group announced the formation of its senior management team: Blake Henry - Managing Partner, Business Development (Co-Founder)
Neal Ruskin - Managing Partner, Technical Development (Co-Founder)
Robert Benkovitz - Chief Development Engineer
Robert McNeice - Senior Product Specialist
Phillip Moran - Senior Application Manager
Vincent Petrillo - Quality Assurance Manager
Marking another expansion of the company's presence in the interactive marketplace, A&E Television Networks has created a new division, AETN Interactive. Thomas Heymann has been promoted to oversee its growth in
his new role as Senior Vice President/General Manager, it was announced by Whitney Goit II, Executive Vice President, A&E Television Networks.
Charged.com, one of the Web's original leisure magazine, named Gary Wagener as business manager, a newly-created post at the company. According to Jen Heck, Editor-In-Chief of Charged.com, Wagener will oversee all advertising and marketing efforts for the Webzine, as well as cultivate new business relationships and sponsorships.
12/10
Gist Communications, Inc., the Internet's leading provider of TV listing guides and related content, has hired Saul Shapiro as its first Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Shapiro will also take the lead in expanding Gist's position as a key service provider of interactive guides and related services for the Internet, cable, satellite and broadcast industries.
Justin Model is moving on from the NYC Economic Development Corporation to take a job at Predict It Inc. as director of business development. New mail is jmodel@predictit.com
12/03
Barthold Heads to Avid Networks
Charles Barthold is leaving Space.com to work at Avid Networks. Charlie was the longtime Editor in Chief of Times Mirror's Yachting Magazine.
Wiseads New Media Names Three Top Executives
WiseAds New Media, Inc., announced the following executive appointments: Eisen Jo Casaclang, Executive Vice-President/Chief Financial Officer; Bill Gerneglia, Chief Technology Officer; and Andrew Witty, Vice President/Advertising Sales.
Yack In Aggressive Expansion Mode Further Expands Senior Management Team YackSM (www.yack.com), the web's most comprehensive guide to live net events, announced this week that, effective immediately, entertainment veteran Frank Biondi will join the Board of Directors and has invested in the company.
Space.Com Executive Joins Goalnetwork Team
Goal Media Group co-founder and CEO Craig Stoehr announced that Meredith Halpern, former Director of Communications for space.com, has joined the global Internet soccer company as Vice President of Communications.
Denise Siedner of Media.com is leaving the web for the world of travel. Planned destinations so far are Rome, Capri, Israel and the Greek Islands. dsiedner@excite.com
11/26
Kevin C. Clark, former Chairman and CEO of PoppeTyson, has been named Chief Executive Officer of ScreamingMedia (www.screamingmedia.com), it was announced by ScreamingMedia Chairman Jay Chiat. Mr. Clark, a pioneer in online marketing and Internet start-ups, most recently with PoppeTyson, will develop the company’s leadership position as a provider of streaming news syndication services for the Web. Mr. Clark has been an investor in ScreamingMedia, a Board member, and head of ScreamingMedia’s strategic advisory board, since 1998. He will continue to serve on the Board.
Matthew Heindl was recently named the Promotions manager of Silicon Alley-posterchild Kozmo.com's NYC operations. He made the move from the world of research and consulting: not able to resist the fast growth and sheer energy of Kozmo.
digital root (www.digitalroot.com), a business-to-business Internet start-up, announced three significant additions to its management team. Larry Kim has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after serving as a Principal consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ e-business/new media practice. Previously, Larry was the Senior Systems Architect for the Time Inc. Consumer Marketing Division. Rob Kaminoff has joined digital root as Vice President of Business Development from Illusion Fusion, a Top 20 interactive agency. Prior to that, Mr. Kaminoff was Marketing Director for AT&T’s web hosting and ecommerce businesses. Kumar Verma was promoted to Vice President of Marketing after serving as digital root’s Director of Strategic Services. Prior to joining digital root, Mr. Verma held key Internet management, development and consulting positions at toExcel, NetBanner and Venture Direct Worldwide.
11/19
Patricia McDonough, 28, joined Corporate Social Solutions, corporatesocial.com, a public affairs and marketing agency that designs public relations, marketing and corporate social responsibility programs particularly for internet start-ups. Previously, Patricia worked on assignments in Ukraine, Uganda, London and Washington D.C. She specializes in marketing, public education, community affairs and high-tech public relations consulting.
11/12
CYBER SCENE SCOOP
--Apparently our very own Cybergrrl Aliza Sherman has flown the coop from her first startup, Cybergrrl Interactive Media to pursue other opportunities. She's excited about working on her second book and other new directions. I'm sure with the style and the savyiness she's garnered over the years as building up one of the world's greatest networking venues for women and website instruction and design, she'll go far with great things. She's already even got a national column with Entrepreneur's Business Startups magazine.
CitrusNow.com (http://www.citrusnow.com) has blossomed as the Internet's premiere site for fresh Florida Indian River gift fruit, offering the eCommerce marketplace a sweet and secure new place to shop online for
healthy gifts--both personal and corporate. Creative entrepreneurs Piper
Quinn and Andrew Gold are having a blast splashing Florida citrus on the
Internet. Fresh squeezed OJ can be Shaken and Stirred!
Daniel Drennan has been promoted to the post of creative director for Gist TV Listings, the Internet's leading independent producer of TV listing guides and editorial content. In addition to managing art direction for the company's flagship web site, www.gist.com, Mr. Drennan will also manage and execute the design of Gist's new print product, The Daily Gist, in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard's Instant Delivery service.
R/GA Interactive has named Rei Inamoto as senior designer, and Kip Voytek as interaction designer. Inamoto joins R/GA from Blue Marble, where he was a senior designer, working with clients including Cadillac, General Motors and Proctor and Gamble. His two-year tenure also saw him work extensively on new business strategies. Prior to Blue Marble, Inamoto worked as a designer at the Michigan Jobs Commission Project, and before that was at Noriyuki Tanaka Activities, Tokyo.
CultureFinder.com, the Internet's leading arts guide and ticketing service, announced that longtime arts executive Stewart J. Warkow has agreed to help establish CultureFinder.com's new Arts Industry Advisory Board - in a consulting relationship which will help steer the company's marketing efforts in the arts community.
11/05
Nick Nyhan, President of Dynamic Logic, today announced the appointment of Marios Koufaris to the position of Senior Research Fellow. Mr. Koufaris is an Instructor and Ph.D. candidate in Information Systems at NYU's Stern School of Business. His research currently focuses on psychological aspects of electronic commerce and specifically consumer behavior in web-based commerce.
Janet Muir, who helped to engineer many of the benchmark media transactions of the past decade, has joined Sunny Bates Associates to manage the explosive demand for senior-level talent at Internet businesses nationwide.
Reuben L Sushman has left the great canyons of "Wall Street" to become the director of business development at Enock Interactive. Enock is a privately held Web Design, strategy and information architecture firm with diverse clients such as Citibank, NASDAQ, TIAA CREF, Nextel. reuben@enock.com 212-307-6910, ext 213.
As of Thursday, November 4, Kluger Media Group, LLC will relocate from its offices in New Jersey to Scottsdale,Arizona. Our new address is: 7687 East Moura Drive, Suite 200, Scottsdale, AZ 85262. Phone: 480-575-7095. Cell: 602-402-0035. email
10/15
Sunny Bates Associates, which specializes in recruiting the senior-level talent in demand at Internet businesses, has just added Robert Egan and Troy Maier to its team of influential players in the digital community.
Rob Egan comes to SBA from a top-ten search firm where he served on the management committee and filled executive positions in a range of industries worldwide. With 14 years of experience in marketing and sales at Atari, Procter & Gamble, Kraft General Foods, and Grand Metropolitan, Egan brings an insider's understanding of brand-building and the contacts to strengthen SBA's network in Boston and beyond. A world traveler and Outward Bound Board Member cleverly disguised as a Kellogg B-school ('87) packaged goods traditionalist, Rob relishes his leap into the hot space where media meets technology.
Troy Maier brings hands-on technical know-how to SBA, having spearheaded the installation of a new Y2K-compliant operating system across all the divisions of Bankers Trust (Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust). In light of that experience, Maier maintains, "The two most important qualifications for senior tech positions are great interpersonal skills and the ability to manage chaos."
Christopher Kresge has been named vice president of sales and marketing for Openshop.com, an eCommerce solution provider based in Germany. Christopher will be working out of the New York City office and will be responsible for the northeast territory.
Michael Coggins has been named Global Account Manager for Openshop.com. He was recently promoted from vice president of channel development. Michael will also be working out of the New York City office.
Walter Karol has been appointed CTO of Openshop.com . His responsiblities will include product development and training.
R/GA Interactive has made 2 further additions to its team, naming Michelle Cheesman as account director, and John Antinori as senior producer. Cheesman is responsible for providing strategic direction on the IBM account, and oversees the IBM account management team. She comes to R/GA from Playboy Online, where she was business development manager, specializing in the broadband and interactive television markets. Antinori is the senior producer on the Bed, Bath & Beyond account. He was most recently senior producer/creative director at Engineering Animation, Inc., a PC games developer. He brings to his new position twelve years of experience developing computer games and children's software for a variety of platforms.
Dominique Ellner has been in London for the past 7 months setting up the Pixelpark UK office as their Director of Operations. She writes in "it has been really extraordinary. Now this office is fully underway, Pixelpark has gone public on the Neuer Markt (pxl.fse) and now I am off on a 2-year leave of absence to earn my MBA at Harvard University. Look out new media..." Contact her via email
10/15
Debbie Newman has left DejaNews.com after sending them off on several
successful marketing campaigns. She is enjoying her time off, got a great
tan (in Connecticut of all places!) and might be going on a safari!
Randall Rothenberg, a well-regarded author, reporter and editor has been
named Editor-in-Chief of Strategy & Business Media. Strategy & Business
Media is the communications venture that publishes the award-winning
business magazine Strategy & Business, as well as Strategy & Business
books, web site and ancillary publications that explore the best ideas in
business. Rothenberg will be responsible for broadening, coordinating and
unifying the Strategy & Business brand across existing and new media
platforms.
Pseudo Programs, Inc. a producer of original Internet TV programming,
announced today that two top producers have joined Pseudo to lead the
expansion of the company's new program offerings. Pseudo has appointed Mark
Berniker, a veteran of CNNfn, as Executive Producer of its business and
technology programming. Bill Goins, an award-winning film producer, has
been named Executive Producer for new channel development. They will report
to Pseudo's President and COO, Anthony K. Asnes.
Gamesville.com, Inc. (www.gamesville.com), a 1:1 database marketing company
and producer of free, real-time massively multi-player games, today
announced the appointment of veteran entertainment marketing executive,
Paul LaRocca, to vice president of marketing.
HomePage.com, one of the Web's fastest-growing providers of free personal
homepages, announced that it has named two Vice Presidents to lead and
further accelerate its strategic growth. Former Macworld Publisher, Matthew
Sweeney, joins HomePage.com as Vice President of Business Development, and
former AdSmart Vice President, Sponsorships, Michael Beller, joins as Vice
President of Sales. Both positions are new and each will report to Tim
Cahill, Chief Operating Officer.
Tapping a well-known magazine public relations executive to lead its
growing communications effort, leading magazine retailer Enews.com
http://www.enews.com has named Joanne Chaseman, the former director of
public relations/corporate communications for Times Mirror Magazines, as
director of corporate communications.
10/08
Katie and Glen Lipka have just added a healthy son to their family tree. Ethan Lipka born October 7, 1999 at 6:31 PM 7 pounds 10 ounces, 20.5 inches tall and Mom are doing fine. Congratulations!
Unveiling a behind-the-scenes roster to match its on-air talent, eYada.com, the Web's first all-star, all-talk radio network, announced that two seasoned executives will lead its
ad sales team. According to Bob Meyrowitz, the CEO and president of eYada.com, David Bialek, former director of sales for SFX Entertainment, has been appointed
Vice President of Sales, and John Murphy, former National Account Manager
for SFX Radio Network, will serve as Director of Sales.
Gary Welz is now Director of Corporate Business Development at THINK New Ideas, Inc. | gary.welz@thinkinc.com.
10/01
Marielle Smith, Silicon Alley Connections' brilliant recruiter placed Howard Witt as the Editor at brillscontent.com. Howard came from Chicago Tribune, and he is going to head Brill's Content website. Reports are that he started on Monday and is very happy!
Ofer Cohen has left SonicNet to start his own firm, Pumpum.
David Centner has launched a new Internet business, MaterialNet, which will be a neutral business-to-business marketplace for buyers of raw materials. MaterialNet's mission is to globally transform the way raw materials are purchased. Raw materials procurement is a $1.4 trillion industry in the U.S. They've raised several million dollars in financing a few months ago, and were just written up by Bear Stearns as one of 50 emerging Internet marketplaces! www.materialnet.com
Philadelphia Internet professional services pioneer i-site today announced the hiring of Laurie Snyder as Director of Interactive Design, and Aaron Weber as Web Developer.
David Frackman (madscience INC- http://madscience.com) is doing fine in SF, after moving out there from NYC. He just got a CEO for his company (who was at Myriad).
9/17
Mitchell Cannold, former President, Sony Online Ventures and Sony New Technologies, has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Cannold reports directly to Dobbs.
Michael Coggins and Chris Kresge were recently appointed to implement and command sales and marketing for TEAM USA at OpenShop Internet Inc.
Kate Kennedy has just been promoted to Senior Account Executive in the Internet Business Strategies division at Edelman Worldwide.
9/10
Lori Schwab, founding director of the New York New Media Association (NYNMA), has joined SOHOnet (www.sohonet.com) as Vice President of Operations and Communications, it was announced today by John Bogosian, chief operating officer. At SOHOnet, Schwab's duties will include overseeing a significant expansion of the company's technical and managerial staff, designing and implementing training programs, and spearheading the company's marketing and communications efforts.
While going after his MBA at Cranbrook Academy Of Art, Mike Essl will still be highly with Chopping Block and their clients.
On Friday, September 10, 1999, CultureFinder.com, an arts guide and ticketing service, announced the appointment David Rogers, formerly of 1-800-Flowers.com, to director of strategic business development and Christina DeSantis, formerly of New York's Thirteen/WNET, to director of partner relations.
Michael Corbett, former mid-Atlantic sales manager for Netscape, has joined eRSVP and will be working from Washington, DC.
While Kluger Media Group is relocating to Scottsdale, AZ on November 1, clients like Fingerhut, Motorola and Bigstar will still be serviced. The NY base is at Bigstar's offices. barrykluger@earthlink.net.
Veronique Christensen has accepted an offer at Zadu as Executive Producer. zadu is a Client/server solution, consisting of a small toolbar with a thin software attached, that accompanies the user while surfing the web. The management team is headed by Michael Meirer, former CEO and later Vice Chairman of nCube (acquired by Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle). The current management team includes experienced Silicon Valley veterans, with consulting from Phil Gerbert, partner at the McKenna Group.
9/3
When founders leave a fledgling but growing organization it usually means Trouble. In this case, however, Communities.com, which owns The Palace.com and Onlive.com will probably survive just peachily despite the departure of co-founder Mark Jeffrey. Although Mark's not doing too shabbily either. He started off in Time Warner with Jim Baumgartner and developed ThePalace.com, the two-dimensional Web chat environment. Now, as VP of business development he's sneaking off to another corner to play with Communities.com director of business development Matthew Burgess. And they're not telling what they're up to! The word is that while it's very different from what they've been developing, of course it's a dot com project.
One person whose changes are making some waves is Nicholas Butterworth, former president of SonicNet. He's stepped up to a fabu new role, that puts him in the DJ booth of the hottest new club -- Online Music Industry -- as president and CEO of MTVi. He'll now be comandeering the growth and development of the MTVi portfolio including vh1.com, mtv.com and sonicnet.com.
Throw a rock into a pond and waves result. Simple enough, and Nicholas's moves are affecting change in SonicNet already. Corey Podolsky, former Programming Director of SonicNet is joining the Urban Box Office, as Senior Vice President, General Manager. This start-up hopes to provide a comprehensive online experience for the African American and global urban audiences.
Is there anyone left at CNNfn? Lou's in Space.com, Mark Berniker left for Pseudo.com and VP of CNNfn.com Craig Forman and Helen Whelan danced off together to start MyPrimeTime.com, a baby boomer site.
Effective September 7, 1999, Grant Thornton's New York City offices and Parsippany, New Jersey office will relocate to new locations. Midtown Manhattan office: 666 Third Avenue, Phone: (212) 599-0100; Metropark, New Jersey: 399 Thornall Street, Edison, NJ 08818, Phone: (732) 516-5500; New York Financial District, 60 Broad Street, NYC 10004, Phone: (212) 422-1000; Melville, Long Island: One Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, New York 11747, Phone: (516) 249-6001
8/27
Maribel Becker is very excited to report that she recently joined DoubleClick's fast-growing Closed Loop Marketing Solutions Group as an Account Manager.
Image Info, Inc., is moving! The five-year-old company, a leader in high-performance software products and digital imaging for fashion, apparel, home furnishings and consumer products, inaugurated a 10,000-square-foot digital photography studio in the former Omega Warehouse at 85 10th Avenue in Manhattan¹s white-hot West Chelsea neighborhood.
Expanding a longtime relationship with America Online, CultureFinder.com will serve as the
premier fine arts and performing arts host on AOL Hometown, a new home page community for AOL's more than 17 million members. Founded in 1995 as an arts guide, CultureFinder.com (AOL Keyword: CultureFinder; http://www.culturefinder.com) has grown into a unique online e-commerce company which combines comprehensive arts event listings and content with an online ticketing service. The Web site currently features listings for 350,000 events in more than 1300 cities nationwide, and has attracted more than a million unique visitors since its launch.
LifeMinders.com has appointed Tim Hanlon as their VP of marketing and communications. He comes from an extensive background which includes a previous position as VP for America's Promise, which is a national organization led by Colin Powell.
Tom Mangan of Peoria, Ill, who has an extensive site Newsies.com, will be moving to Silicon Valley to work for the San Jose Mercury News.
Olive Media has moved to the Rutherford Place building at: 305 2nd Ave (between 17th and 18th)
Suite 522
New York, NY 10003
212.254.9155. They also have a new division called OLIVE ENTERTAINMENT that will focus
on music. Their first act is former Sire/Elektra artist HOT WATER.
8/20
Sometimes job transitions can be easy, and sometimes they are fraught with drama, as was the case when Susan Pinkwater, who handled mergers & acquisitions at Agency.com moved onto lead BBDO's interactive unit. Something was apparently in the "@tmosphere" as they say as Heather Rosen moved onto Media.com, Cindy Dale (former VP of Interactive) went to APL Digital, heading up account services; and Todd O'Donald left for OnHealth.com.
MyPrimeTime.com, the company and site started by former CNNfn'ers Craig Foreman and Helen Whelan, just hired web producer veterens Mary Tudor, formerly of Third Age Media, and Jory Des Jardins, formerly of iVillage.
Heidi Raeback has accepted a position of Director of Operations for Acidtested. Acidtested already has three divisions: build and maintain websites and interactive products; management consultation, troubleshooting and implementation, restructure and implement infrastructures to make maximize operations and efficiency; and they recruit and place people in positions.
Karen Plitt, the wonder of the UJA-Federation Technology & New Media Group, is getting married and moving to Sydney, Australia for about 14 months. He will be covering the Olympics, as Sports Editor for one of the major dailies over there--- so I will be living Down Under until November of 2000. Congrats and Go Karen!
8/13
Congrats to Nancy Jaffe and Chris McCarthly as they get married in Kalambaka, Greece -- the small village where Chris's mother is from on August 21st.
James Fallows will join The Standard as a regular columnist, writing every other week. Fallows, a renowned writer and editor whose career has included stints as editor-in-chief of US News & World Report and Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly, will now bring his provocative, thoughtful analysis and literary flair to the wide range of issues surrounding the development of the Internet Economy.
Tristin Louis went to California as the captain of Team East in the "Cool Site in a Day"
challenge organized by MFI's Web '99 Conference (They won. Check out the
story at http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/06/25/feature/cool_site.html ).
Then, the box that was hosting TNL.net fried, taking along with it a lot
of his web site. He's since replaced and upgraded it and just went back
online a week ago. Then he resigned from the position as VP of marketing and strategy at Net Quotient to join a new company called Boo.com where he will be senior advisor to
the CEO there.
FEED (http://www.feedmag.com) announced today that it has appointed Elizabeth
McArthur, formerly of Henry Holt and Company, as marketing manager, a new
position.
Launching an aggressive sales and marketing effort as it heads into its fourth year, The Webby Awards announced today that it has tapped New York-based new media veteran Roy
Anderson Jr. as Director of Sales and Marketing, a new position for this
fast growing company.
Tapping an accomplished circulation and marketing executive to spearhead its customer care and fulfillment processes, leading magazine retailer Enews.com http://www.enews.com has named Patricia J. Key, former business manager of The Washington Post
National Weekly Edition, as vice president of fulfillment and customer care.
Karyn Exilus joins The Swayne Agency as an editorial assistant. Prior to coming there she was at Shakespeare & Co., a local Manhattan bookstore, where she worked as a erchandising assistant.
Michael Coggins and Chris Kresge were recently appointed to implement and
command sales and marketing for TEAM USA at OpenShop Internet Inc.
Ken Li is leaving the Daily News and will be resurfacing at The Industry
Standard's NY bureau, where he'll be covering media, entertainment and
content (not in that order).
Dawn Castella recently started as Sales Manager for Times Mirror Interzines
Colleen Nielsen will be moving from sales at SkyTel to be a project manager at C3i down in the 4 Silicon Alley building in August.
R/GA Interactive has named Dawn Winchester as Director of Client Services. R/GA's current work with e-business clients including IBM, Sothebys.com, Bed Bath & Beyond and Enterprise Rent-a-Car has called for a deeper commitment to strategic resources, and Winchester will bring her considerable experience to bear on all accounts.
7/23
Thomas Hespos told me at the Planet Direct bash (6/22) but now it's public: he's joined Blue Marble ACG, Ltd. as
Media Director. Tom's experience from K2Design will serve him well as he manages and further developes
Blue Marble's media department. He'll be in charge of all media activities for clients including Medscape and 24/7 Media, said David Yakir,
CEO and Founding President of Blue Marble.
Tara Burgess has joined Raging Bull as their PR Manager
Jeremy Dine was just named Creative Director at Xceed, following a stint as Producer at
Xceed (where he was managing projects for Silicon Valley Bank and Readers Digest among others).
Jonathan Feldman has accepted a position with About.com He will be working on mergers &
acquisitions, business development, and ventures for the company.
7/16
After 3 years, and starting off as Sharon Greenberger's intern, Lauren Giglio is leaving the Downtown Alliance for a new position at Intellispace. She'll be missed but is heading on to new challenges!
Eileen Shulock is now the Managing Editor of Web Digest For Marketers. Eileen has been with WDFM for nearly 3 years! She is now assisted by Anne Giles Rimbey, who just joined the staff and hails from Tampa. Like Eileen, Anne has a very distinct "voice" which lends itself nicely to getting to the meat of each site covered in this informative and engaging newsletter.
7/9
Just back from a month in Spain, Chris Allbritton has moved on from his post at the Associated Press to pursue freelance opportunities and work on a book.
Maurice Russell has been appointed to Senior Director, Business Development and Finance at Razorfish Studios, Inc. In his new role, Mr. Russell will work with Razorfish Studios President Michael Simon to carry out the business affairs and financial operations of the company.
7/2
Brian Lehon was formally a strategic account manager at Globix Corporation and has now moved on to StreamSearch.com as Director of Business Development. StreamSearch.com is a search engine for audio and video content on the web.
Shane Cook (Austin, TX) has joined 1stBuy.com as its Internet Architect.
Richard Landry, Editor-In-Chief of NewMedia magazine, welcomes the ironic and provocative wit of Internet industry commentator and humorist, Heather Gold to NewMedia magazine. Gold's back-page humor column, "Back Flip", debuts in the July issue of NewMedia magazine (newmedia.com), now available.
6/25
Vernon Steward is now Director, Online Marketing at DirectWeb
Mary Dawne Arden will be appearing on the NBC Weekend TODAY SHOW- Channel 4, on Sunday June 27 from 6 AM to 9 AM to discuss "My segment on How to be a Better Communicator"
Joshua A Fruhlinger, Managing Editor, Charged, has been recruited to be X-Ceed Interactive's (www.xceed.com) Creative Director. He will continue to write and produce freelance features for Charged.
T3 Media president Michael Diamant is leaving and Chris Byrant has been named President and CEO. Chris was previously the CEO and Managing Director. The two gentlemen founded the company together in 1995 and since then it has grown into of the nation's premier interactive services firms.T3 Media also announced that The A Consulting Team (TACT) has increased their ownership interest in T3 Media. T3 Media will retain control of their day-to-day operations and their Board of Directors. Chris was also nominated for the 1999 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New Media category for the NYC region. The awards will be presented
this Thursday evening at the Marriott Marquis.
After 2 years at AGENCY.COM, Matt Peyton will be moving on to some new challenges as Director Of Project Management at the Wall St. Journal on July 6th. He also will be working on a benefit for the Children Of Kosovo that involves some of his old music business friends and the Red Cross, as well as the Nelson Mandela foundation. Tune into http://www.mcy.com during the day on Sunday, June 27th to share in this global event.
Stephanie Worley, former public relations manager at iVillage, recently joined Business Wire as an AE handling internet and hi-tech clients.
Larry Pearl and the e-com guys made the WSJ on Tuesday, June 22nd for a story on their firm e-com advisors.
6/18
Kyra Feldman is the newest kid on the block at T3 Media. As Marketing Communications Coordinator she'll be busy for this burgeoning company!
Blue Dingo News: Valerie Boyko was hired as Director of Client Practice at Blue Dingo and Mike Meyers as Director of Production. Watch for more additions in the coming months as Blue Dingo continues to strive for unique solutions, full business integration, and increasing our clients' value.
6/11
Marj Kleinman will be leaving The Learning Annex and joining the team at MaMaMedia as of June 14th. She will be producing and launching a new educational area on their site and is " excited to be getting back to children's programming, which is what I did before I came to The Learning Annex."
Jeanine Moss, formerly from the New York Business Forums has joined Organic to create a new public relations and communications division in New York.
Entertainment Drive, announced that Megan Kline has been named Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. In her new role, she will be forming strategic partnerships with celebrities as well as overseeing the individual sites through Starclubs (http://www.starclubs.com), Entertainment Drive's latest initiative which develops, produces and maintains Official Celebrity Websites.
Well how do ya like that? After NYU gave Arul Sundaram his MBA and kicked him out the door, he joined Community Connect - the folks who run AsianAvenue.com - as their Commerce Director.
6/4
Omar Wasow, Internet Analyst for MSNBC and WNBC and former President and Founder of New York Online, has joined Community Connect Inc. (www.CommunityConnect.com), developer of ethnic on-line communities, as the Executive Director of the company's upcoming black community site.
Bennett Kleinberg, who co-founded Edelman New Media AND PR21 with Renee Edelman, is now heading up PR and marketing efforts for the Digital Club Festival and Digital Club Network.
Bolt, the largest teen-focused Internet destination and one of the fastest growing portals, has added a number of veteran new media executives to its top ranks it was announced today by Dan Pelson, CEO, Bolt Media Inc. The appointments include former YM executive Jeanne Sachs who will serve as vice president of advertising sales, former Music Boulevard/N2K Inc. executive Alexa Tobin who boards as vice president of commerce and former CDnow executive Brad Mehl who joins the company as vice president of marketing.
5/28
Brian Czarny (of Think New Ideas and PR21) has transplanted himself and is doing well as director, corporate communications at Mount Laurel, NJ-based DirectWeb. DirectWeb is the first subscription-based service to provide a complete, user-friendly solution for personal computing and the Internet. The fixed monthly subscription price includes a remotely managed and secured state-of-the-art Windows 98-based personal computer, unlimited Internet access, an easy-to-use and consumer-friendly portal and complete technical support.
ShiftKey Software, Inc., a leading developer of tools for creating automated online distribution networks, announced the appointment of David B. Mathison as CEO. In his new position, Mathison will focus on ShiftKey's strategic direction, and implement the appropriate organizational structure for sales, marketing and affiliate partnerships. Mathison joins ShiftKey after five years at Reuters Ltd., most recently as vice president of global syndication at Reuters NewMedia. During his tenure at Reuters, which pioneered the business model of content syndication on the web, Mathison developed and executed business plans for TruQuote and TargetNews, then aggregated Reuters content for those web offerings and for Planet Reuters, an integrated online multimedia current events news service. Prior to joining ShiftKey, Mathison served briefly as CIO of The Carson Group, a privately held New York consulting firm that provides strategic counseling for publicly traded companies seeking to maximize shareholder value. Mathison previously held senior-management-level sales and marketing positions at the start-ups Software Spectrum and Ovid Technologies.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced that Charles Millard, who has served as President of the City's Economic Development Corporation (EDC) for the past three-and-a-half years, will leave the Administration to accept a position as a Managing Director with Prudential Securities. In his new position, Mr. Millard, will be the Head of the New York-based practice of Prudential Securities newly created Internet Economy Group.
Bill Bass is now VP of e-commerce, Lands End. He was formerly with Forrester.
Risi Leanne-Wright has moved on from Saatchi & Saatchi's Darwin Digital. She is now working at Saatchi's former sister
agency, Bates Worldwide, in their integrated communications division, 141 Communications.
5/12
Howard Greenstein of Microsoft told me about some of his new developments including his recent promotion to Technical Evangelist, Windows Media Technologies.
Shachin Shah has been promoted to Account Supervisor from Sr. Account Executive at PR@vantage. He's been swamped with three new clients coming on board and a host of press opportunities for my other clients. Onwards and Upwards Sachin!
Ms. Hamilton joins NRW with extensive experience in strategic communications, crises management and investor relations. Ms. Hamilton's background includes serving as senior vice president of corporate communications and investor relations at Cendant, which was the result of the $14 billion merger between CUC Incorporated and HFS, Inc. Prior to Cendant, Ms. Hamilton worked for the investor relations firm, Morgen-Walke Associates, where she provided strategic communications and investor relations counsel to clients in the retail industry, such as Danskin and DonnKenny.
After almost two years, Alayna Tagariello is moving from Peppercom Communications to Connors Communications to focus on B to B, New Media and Hi-Tech.
After a brief stint at ChannelSeven.com, Adrienne Matt is writing solo again as Lucid Thought. She and Christine Harmel of The Interactive Resource are working for a client that has a product line including a comprehensive market analysis, e-newsletter and web site development. Can't wait to hear more about it!
5/5
Eric Grilly will be leaving his position at Nando Media to become the Director of Denver Post On-line and become a part of one of the fiercest newspaper battles in the country.
KPE (www.kpe.com), an Interactive Development Agency with a specialty in Entertainment, has hired Anthony Jacobson as an Executive Producer and Amy Brownstein as Director of Public Relations, Mark Patricof, Principal of KPE, announced today. Mr. Jacobson, who hails from the William Morris Agency and Sony Pictures Classics will act as Executive Producer for the upcoming goodstory.com. He will also be lending his expertise to help develop and define many of the company s proprietary Internet projects and be consulting on other KPE Entertainment accounts currently underway such as Independent Pictures and Industry Entertainment. Ms. Brownstein, formerly a Senior Account Executive at Wolf Kasteler, representing clients such as Rupert Everett, Forrest Whitaker and Keifer Sutherland will be responsible for creating and maintaining KPE s internal and external public relations department.
Nancy Tamosaitis has moved on from her tenure at LobsenzStevens. She just joined Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide as Senior Vice President and is managing dot.coms and other technology accounts for their NY practice.
4/30
William Lansing, president of Fingerhut Companies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Federated Department Stores, Inc., has joined the Board of Directors of BigStar Entertainment, the online filmed entertainment marketing company. The announcement was made by David Friedensohn, chairman and CEO of BigStar Entertainment.
NewsEdge Corporation -- barnesandnoble.com announced it has launched a new Small Business feature area, hosted by Terri Lonier, one of the nation's leading experts on solo entrepreneurs. Ms. Lonier, as founder and president of Working Solo, Inc., advises high-tech and Fortune 500 companies on the booming SOHO (small office/home office) market. An accomplished entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of the personal computer industry, she is also the author of the widely acclaimed Working Solo Series, which provides books, audiotapes, monthly e-mail newsletter, and seminars to thousands of solo entrepreneurs.
Amy Goldberger is now the Terpin Group's new NYC general manager. She most recently was head of PR for Seagram (Universal Studios, Polygram, etc.).
Kevin Chiu has joined R/GA Interactive (New York) as Senior Designer. He was previously at Nicholson NY.
Congratulations to Stephen Petri of CigarLife on his recent marriage!
Rich LeFurgy, one of the early evangelists of the Internet's advertising and marketing power, has joined The Walden Group, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, as a consultant to the firm's Walden Media & Information Technology (WMIT) fund.
The MiningCo.com, Inc. announced the appointment of Ron McCoy, 30, to Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations. As Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations, Mr. McCoy will be responsible for scaling up the network and expanding the breadth of development tools for the company.
US Interactive, Inc. announced the appointment of three key members to its senior management team: promotion of Philip Calamia to chief financial officer from vice president of finance and administration; hiring of Benjamin Green as senior vice president and general manager for the company's Philadelphia office; promotion of James Letts, formerly the general manager of US Interactive's Philadelphia office, to chief information officer. US Interactive also announced its strategic alliance with Be Free, Inc. with the intention to generate increased traffic and develop new sales channels for their E-Commerce clients.
Mark Strehlow (Razorfish) and Jim Cooper (Sun Microsystems) had a wild bash for 150 people at their East Village pad on April 16th. There were several DJs pumping music and scratch rapping and drinks a plenty! Just in time for this news:
Razorfish, Inc. announced its Initial Public Offering of 3 million shares of Class A common stock at a price of $16.00 per share. The company has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 450,000 additional shares to cover over allotments. The offering is being managed by Credit Suisse First Boston, BancBoston Robertson Stephens, BT Alex. Brown and Lehman Brothers.
Jeff Cannon launched Marcis Interactive with a huge bang in March and ended with an even bigger win in April. He'll start developing one of the first episodic adventure shows on the net targeting the teen audience. It's already being funded by one of the largest toy manufacturers, additionally, he'll be flying to Germany later in May to discuss developing some original content for one of their leading ISPs. Finally, the McGraw Hill book on Internet marketing wraps up next week and goes to press.
Two former NetGrocer Marketing and Business Development team members have formed Ecom Advisors, LLC, a strategic e-commerce marketing advisory firm. The firm works with startups and traditional companies looking to enter into e-commerce or improve upon their current e-commerce efforts. Sandeep Thakrar and Larry Pearl, co-founders of Ecom Advisors, have years of leading-edge, hands-on experience with online customer acquisition and retention with a focus on developing e-commerce strategies and programs from a marketing perspective. Ecom Advisors' core services include: Business Plan Development, Strategic Planning and Implementation, Partnership/Alliance Development and Management, and Customer Acquisition and Loyalty Program Development. Ecom Advisors is positioned to complement the interactive agencies as well as traditional consulting and systems integration companies.
Manning Rubin, Senior Creative Supervisor at downtown interactive agency K2 Design, has authored "Keep Your Brain Alive," a
book that gives advice on how not to go 'braindead' by using simple
exercises. One of these exercises consists in having an "ongoing chess
game" by the water cooler. Employees would study the game, and make a
move. This brief gear shifting provides a break from verbal, left-brain
activities. What a good way to break the routine! It contains 83 exercises
that can be done while commuting, at work, at the market, during
mealtimes, or while resting.
Mercer Management Consulting's new book "Profit Patterns" is out and should be of interest to business exec. The new web site is dedicated solely to the book and its main messages.
Marking a major expansion of its technical and consulting services, Blue Barn Interactive named Chris Robison,
formerly of iChat and SMART Technologies, as the company's new Vice
President of Professional Services, a new position.
4/23
More wwwacky changes: Bogen PR has announced it is
the (first) PR agency for the WWWAC group. WWWAtch out world!
As of April 30th Christopher Luzine will be leaving Chase Manhattan Private Bank, Investors Group to work in the Asset Management Division as an Equity Portfolio Analyst in pursuit of a position that better meets his future aspirations, at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Personal and hearty congratulations to Andrew Gelman, Senior Attorney, Talent Negotiations, NBC, Inc., and Laura Sorokoff, at SixDegrees, on their engagement! The happy couple has a lovely October wedding planned.
GoodNoise Corporation named Marv Su, 36, to the newly created position of vice president, interactive marketing. Su, who reports to Vice President of Marketing Steve Grady, will be responsible for partnerships and campaigns aimed at generating traffic and acquiring new customers.
Blue Marble ACG, a digital marketing communications agency that specializes in business solutions for Fortune 50 brands and companies was awarded two 1999 MC ICON Awards for marketing technology excellence. A Flash banner it created for the Australian Tourist Commission's "Seven Days Down Under" campaign won the platinum "Best of Show" award for multimedia. The ad was also awarded a gold award for Marketing/Single WWW Banner.
4/16
Internet marketing veterans Matt Rothman and Michael Lipson have joined the Thinking Media Corporation offices in San Francisco. Matt and Michael will be charged with establishing strategic alliances with WestCoast companies. Matt Rothman was previously Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sony Online Ventures. Matt conceived and launched Sony's online game service, and in 1994, as Director of Business Development for Sony New Technologies, Matt created www.sony.com. Matt was a technology writer for twelve years. He is a recipient of the Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. Michael Lipson was most recently Vice President, Strategic Alliances for planet U Inc., a leader in online promotions for consumer packaged goods. Michael previously held senior business roles for over a dozen interactive enterprises, including Total Entertainment Network, the Internet Underground Music Archive and Interval Research, Paul Allen's think-tank. Michael was the first President of the Board of the Multimedia Development Group, one of the first non-profit trade organizations for the multimedia industry. His first position in the interactive industry was in the early 1990's as a partner in GISTICS, a research firm that authored Apple's first white papers on CD ROM development. Prior to this, Michael spent 8 years as an investment banker with GE Capital.
Karen Epper Hoffman recently joined the GartnerGroup as a research director in the payment systems area. She was formerly with Forrester Research's Money & Technology service in Boston and before that with the American Banker in New York. karen.hoffman@gartner.com
Thomas L. Morell has joined the Bates USA Media Dept. agency as Sr. VP, Dir. of Media Planning for Product Accounts, and Richard Anderson has been promoted to Sr. VP, Associate Media Dir., Bates USA.
Bob Wyman has made the move to the other coast! He recently left New York and is now V.P. of Product Development at Marketwave in Seattle. bobwyman@marketwave.com
Don Voreck left his post at IBM / Lucent to work at Planet Access, a local Internet Service Provider.
There are lots of changes going on with Janice Gjersten. She's leaving AOL's Ditital City, after helping start Total NY, sell to Digital City in '97, and then sell Digital City to AOL in '98. Now she is branching out on her own again, marrying her soul mate Alexander Caillet, writing a book, turning a town around, advising a little with Creative Good, and starting a new dinner series. If you're interested in finding out more, e-mail her at: Janice@PartnershipStrategies.com.
David West Smith's (GEM) brother, Adam Smith, was invited to join MIT Media Lab to work on developing interactive toys. Congratulations Adam!
If you can still get it, check out Marisa Bowe's has a great article on the Alley in the 4/14 edition of the New York Observer.
Steve Grady reports that GoodNoise moved its headquarters to Redwood City last week. They can now be reached at GoodNoise Corporation, 1991 Broadway, Second Floor, Redwood City, CA 94063. Main number: 650-556-9733
4/9
Mark Josephson has left PR agency Cone Interactive to work with his client, MiningCo.com, in business development.
Ellen Ullman has moved into the exciting role of Senior Associate Editor, in charge of the Keeping Pace section, at FamilyPC magazine. She was formerly News Editor at Small Business Computing. Her new e-mail, after 4/19, will be ellen_ullman@zd.com.
Jonathan Perkel, corporate cyber-lawyer, recently linked up with NYNMA sponsor and prominent Silicon Alley law firm, Morrison & Foerster. Jonathan will continue to represent companies both large and small pursuing success in the Internet arena.
4/2
LPNYTHink, a design firm specializing in corporate identity, has hired Mickey Rogers as designer. Rogers most recently served as a desktop specialist for Bowne Business Solutions. Prior to this, Rogers freelanced for Agency.com where he developed Web sites for Met Life and British Airways. Rogers earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics from Syracuse University. He is a published author, composer and animator.
3/26
Laurel Wells has just accepted a Business Development position with Precision Entertainment, a web design company (in LA), that's launching an e-commerce supersite called "Whats Hot Now.com". She'll be in LA for the month of April and will then be opening an office in New York City sometime in early May. Ciao and Yipee for Laurel! Laurel@prsn.com (becomes active on Monday, March 29th)
Tucker Viemeister has joined the talented people over at razorfish as Executive Vice President of Research and Development. He will help develop and manage the product environment and 3D design components of Razorfish's Digital Change Management (sm). He was most recently, creative director and ambassador at Frogdesign, New York City, an office that he opened and directed. Tucker founded Smart Design, Inc. in 1979 with Davin Stowell, Tom Dair, and Tam Thompson, where he served as Vice President until joining Frogdesign in 1997.
Jordan Serlin will be leaving his post of Vice President of Marketing Operations at FortuneCity.com as of March 26th to pursue a project of personal interest. He thinks there are some truly amazing growth opportunities in FortuneCity's immediate future but is hoping to raise a big splash later this year with his project. You can contact him at serlin@usa.net.
Nancy Swiezy will be leaving the business development team at Richard A. Eisner to join Blue Dingo as director
of business development on 4/5/99. Ms Swiezy was instrumental in bringing the RAE Partners to the New York New Media Community. She leaves the firm with over 30 new clients and an awareness of who and how Eisner can help the New York new media grow their business.
Brian Czarny has just accepted a full time job with DirectWeb (the same company that Vernon Steward left THINK to join.) He'll be Director of Corporate Communications will be moving to Philly soon.
Happy Birthday to 5th Floor Interactive LLC, a next wave Internet development firm! They recently celebrated their one year anniversary, adding key management including, as a partner, interactive technology veteran Thomas Barton as Director of Technology and solidifying a new client relationship with Concepts Direct,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CDIR).
3/19
Of course we all know that iVillage Inc. announced their IPO on 3/18 of 3,650,000 shares of common stock -- and the market's going craaaazy!
Community Connect Inc. (www.communityconnect.com),
publisher of ethnic online communities, announced a partnership
with MediaRing Inc, leading provider of Internet voice
communication applications and services. Members of
AsianAvenue.com, the largest online community for Asian
Americans, now have access to instant voice interaction
on the Web. COOL!
Local Jeff Sanders (at Winstar) produced Hellhounds on My Trail:The Afterlife
of Robert Johnson along with director Robert Mugge, in conjunction with the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This premiered at SXSW. More on this cool film as
soon as I see it and review it!
Nicholson NY has been retained by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to
spearhead the museum's new e-commerce initiative involving the Museum
store, collections and educational programs. Nicholson is providing the Met
with strategic consulting, branding, design and engineering services. Among
the goals of our assignment is establishing the Met as a world leader among
museums in leveraging technology to advance its mission.
3/12
GIST Communications, the leading independent producer of TV listings guides on the Internet, is making news these days. They have added two seasoned and top-of-the-line industry professionals to their roster. Wanda Rachel Glinert is now executive director of marketing and Paul Finster will be chief technology officer. Ms. Glinert will work with GIST's programming and strategic partners, focusing on business development, marketing and cross-media advertising campaigns. Mr. Finster will be directly responsible for managing GIST's global technology operations including strategic product development, IT, e-commerce and technical relations with GIST's rapidly growing list of distribution partners.
Adrienne Matt has landed squarely on her feet in a fabulous ew position as Senior Writer at Channel Seven.com. Watch out for great work from this talented woman!
US Interactive, Inc., a leading International Internet professional services company, announced today that Stephen Zarrilli has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Zarrilli one of the company's original employees, had previously been the company's Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. He succeeds Larry W. Smith, who resigned his position as CEO March 1, remains a significant shareholder and will continue to serve on US Interactive's Board of Directors to assist in the ongoing success of the company.
After four years of hosting the nations only syndicated talk show completely dedicated to entrepreneurship, "Let's Talk Business," veteran entrepreneur Mitch Schlimer has been voted to the 1999 Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred. The list, which is composed of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America, puts Mitch and the show's subject of entrepreneurship and small business on the map.
Biscom announced that it has been awarded a patent, by the U.S. Patent and trademark Office on a device that enables users to send and receive faxes and e-mail over the Internet from a single interface.
Well, "Bill Rudin is at it again," and aren't those fabulous words to hear? Last week Rudin announced that in a joint venture with Cogswell Realty Group, they will completely redo an old Northrop Grumman building in Great River, Long Island. SImilar to 55 Broad, Rudin's first adventure into the wired building world, and copied (thankfully) by the creation of the Plug 'n' Go program by the Alliance for Downtown New York, and the city's Economic Development Corporation, this 2 block-long building will have high-speed voice and data communications, video conferencing capability and a telephone system that will operate wirelessly within the center. Unlike its Gotham City sister building, however, the Long Island Technology Center will house a fitness center, in and outdoors recreational areas, child-care center. Similar to 55 Broad's Digital Sandbox, the Long Island Software Technology Network (LIST) was formed a little over a year ago, which has 514 member companies and organizations, will be the first tenant. This center will function similarly to how the Sandbox does. More info.
3/5
David Friedensohn reports that BigStar is making mucho progress in terms of $$, $$%, and ##s. Investments, sales and traffic are up, up, up. Looks like his business savvy has grown with his new venture!
Alright, you always wanted to see Evander Holyfield workout, right? Well you can! Just pointcher browser over to (http://www.holyfield-lewis.com) and you will see all the content, chats, merchandise and promotions surrounding the March 13th event you could ever want. e-Media, a full e-business, e-commerce, front and backend developer based in lovely New Canaan, CT developed the site with TVKO (the pay-per-view arm of Home Box Office), ESPN and Microsoft. e-Media will host streaming video content, including live streaming video of weigh-ins, workouts and pre- and post-fight press conferences. So check it out, order a pizza and enjoy the drama!
IFilm (http://www.ifilm.net), produced by the dynamic brother and sister team of Rodger and Marissa Raderman, has launched and is determined to change the dynamic of the film industry for good--in favor of independent filmmakers. Filmmakers and folks with an opinion about this sort of thing (writers, film enthusiasts, web surfers, etc!) are encouraged to participate, send feedback, suggestions, and submit work. You can even give other filmmakers feedback via the automated rating system or an online review.
iVillage and Ralston Purina Company have announced a major content and e-commerce initiative for women who own pets. Ruff!
JAMTV has officially changed their name to Tunes.com (http://www.tunes.com) and become "the Web's LARGEST music site," including MP3 downloads from major artists, Webcasting, personalization, Rolling Stone Radio, three major music pubs online (Rolling Stone, The Source and Down Beat), among many other features! Whoo!
Kokopelli New Media LLC, together with Merck & Co., redesigned and re-architected Merck's existing 3-year-old corporate site. The re-branded online identity for Merck is a result of hard work including an in-depth, online survey during a two-week promotional run, resulting in the collection of valuable data to guide the company's future online-marketing efforts.. (www.merck.com).
Razorfish Studios acquired 100% of Simon Ventures, Ltd., which was started and previously led by Michael Simon, a New York based artist management firm, to help increase its stable of artists, as well as concentrate its efforts on continuing to produce cross-content media and develop talent. Ahem!
Not just yet-another-e-mail newsletter: SCIO Ltd., (which means "I know" in Latin), an early stage startup founded by Jeff Hearon is offering "Internet Intelligence Now," an e-mail discussion and news resource dedicated toward tracking the growing security challenges facing an increasing networked world. Hearon says, "it is clearly focused on intelligence concerning Internet infrastructure vulnerabilities as expressed in such knowledge domains as infosec, iwar/infowar, and its related geopolitical realities." SCIO LTD seeks to provide a credible perspective on these issues and remove the cloak and dagger mystic, which is often associated with these issues and to offer a resource to freely discuss these topics. SCIO has three websites under developemnt, which will cover Internet intelligence, Internet Infosec e-commerce portal, and lastly a think tank. www.scio-ltd.com/net/org
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/ -- the weekly "Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter" offers insights into cool, useful, fun, offbeat, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
2/26
Blue Dingo (http://www.bluedingo.com), a leading fully integrated traditional and new media marketing and technology firm has announced the addition of Tery Spataro as Chief Operating Officer. Spataro joins the dynamic 70-person strong company from a diverse background in creative management and business acumen. "Tery's philosophy and background completely compliment our full business integration strategies and solutions for clients," said Joe Beatrice, CEO of Blue Dingo. "Her strong background in new media, business management and industry analysis will assist in taking our company to the next level."
After two and a half wonderful years at THINK New Ideas, Vernon Steward is moving on to a new, exciting opportunity. He will be joining an e-commerce company called DirectWeb as Director of Business Development beginning March 1 and relocating to Philadelphia. Keep in touch with this bright man at: vsteward@hotmail.com
Silicon Alley is losing a Canadian Consult member, Matt Toner, but gaining a new Alley business partner. Mr. Toner has over the last 2+ years built up the CanApple program. It says it "was quite a task, one that just wouldn't have been possible without the large doses of help and advice that everyone has been so willing to give." He will be assuming a position with Mercury Seven (http://www.mercuryseven.com)
Eric Gordon has moved from WaveTop to take the enviable position of Northeast Sales Executive at theglobe.com. Congrats!
Doug McCormick, the recent CEO of Lifetime TV, has been elected to iVillage's Board of Directors. As the women's online market welcomes new players, Doug's experience with women's programming will help maintain iVillage's leadership position.
Brett Humphrey's (an old High School drama star like me!) has gotten even more respectable since our high school and drama club days. From Harvard to PriceWaterHouseCoopers to now the role of VP at Bankers Trust dealing with energy and electricity credit risk management, Brett is a rising star in finance! :)
2/19
Hearty Congratulations go to Mr. Mark Hurst, president of Creative Good. InfoWorld just bestowed upon him its "Netrepreneur of the Year" award. Mark credits his receiving the award in part to the report he co-authored with Robert Seidman, "In Search of E-Commerce." The second edition of this report (http://www.goodreports.com) shows how sites like Amazon and Dell improved their usability since the report was first released. And the kicker? Many of the changes were suggested in the original release of the report last June. Mark said that he is "happy that *customers*, not technology, were the focus of the Netrepreneur award..."
UniversityVentures, Inc. (http://www.uventures.com), the Silicon Alley intellectual property (IP) development firm, announces the hiring of securities industry veteran Thomas F. Kane, Jr. as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kane joins co-founders Mr. Heraman and President and General Counsel Craig Zolan as executives of the company.
Marc Perton has just joined Oxygen Media, where he'll be working on personal finance content. Mr. Perton was previously at Citibank.
One of my favoritely-named companies in the Alley has just closed a $3 million first round of financing led by Dawntreader LP. Sybarite (which stands for "a luxurious person") Interactive is now named LivePerson and also received financing from Sterling Payot Capital, LP, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, LLC, FGII, and a group of individual investors.
With great regret a little start-up had to close-up shop. MileNet will be shutting down its service indefinitely due to an overwhelming demand on their server and lack of financing for infrastructure improvements. Since they launched in early November, about 30,000 people downloaded and used their software to earn frequent flier miles by keeping MileNet on their desktops and sending it to friends. Zen and Andy, of MileNet, expressed sincere apologies that they were not able to deliver the service and quality they hoped to. For information on how to redeem miles, please visit: http://www.milenet.com
2/12
Razorfish, Inc. announced that the Los Angeles office has added Claire
Browne as Solutions Manager and Ian Rhett as Executive Producer to its
growing roster of Internet professionals.
Jerry Colonna, HEAVEN board chair, and Wendy Dubit, executive
director/producer, HEAVEN, have announced that Jon Diamond, Vice Chairman
and CEO of N2K and a contributor to the arts and education, has been named
to the board of directors of HEAVEN (www.heavens.org), a national
non-profit dedicated to using the online medium to bridge the "digital
divide." In addition, Bruce Lincoln, a senior educational technologist at
Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies, has joined the
HEAVEN board. (www.heavens.org).
Jeremy Dine has moved on from Digital Pulp to Togglethis as Senior
Producer. Congratulations!
2/5
Cybergrrl, Inc. welcomes May Leong as new Director of Webgrrls International (http://www.webgrrls.com). Ms. Leong joins Webgrrls International after serving for over two years as the founder and leader of the Webgrrls Japan chapter (http://webgrrls.gol.com/). Her role includes extending the reach of Webgrrls, building membership and increasing member resources and benefits for the groundbreaking networking group for women. Leong founded Webgrrls Japan in September 1996. She did consulting work for Pallas Global Enterprise in Tokyo as Curriculum Development Designer where she created New Business Development Programs for Japanese Entrepreneurs. Before that, she was a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan. Adds May Leong, "Webgrrls has grown to over 100 chapters worldwide with a list of 300 chapters waiting to form...Webgrrls members serve as role models and we look to guide more women and girls to get online and embrace technology."
T3 Media announced the promotion of Jessica Safran to vice president of operations and Peter Rowan to vice president of business development. Congratulations Jessica and Peter!
1/29
Back home, Razorfish is revamping management in its New York office. Jean-Philippe Maheu has been named Executive Vice President of North America. Evan Orensten has been named Executive Vice President for Corporate Development. Hyo Yeon has been named Managing Director. Steve Mendelsohn has been named Director of Solutions Management. Elizabeth Semple has been named the Director of Human Resources. Thomas Müller has been named Creative Director. David Warner has been named Manager and Design Director.
1/15
Adele Marie
Secrest was born on January 11, 1999 to RussianWebGirls.com Alyona Makeeva and her husband.
