Mark Ranalli is a proven entrepreneur with a successful track record of launching and running Internet centric companies.
Prior to Helium, Mark served as President of Fax International, a 700-person, global IP communications company, and later launched BaseSix Inc., a marketing strategy firm that specialized in servicing F100 Communications and Media companies such as AT&T Broadband, AOL, Comcast, HBO, and StarzEncore.
In addition to his leadership role at Helium, Mark is co-founder of OurStage Inc. (www.ourstage.com) and serves as Vice Chairman for the Center for Responsive Politics.
Mark earned an MBA from Tuck at Dartmouth and a BSEE from Stanford University. He is married with two children.
Andrew Ressler is responsible for the overall success of the Helium.com website.
Andrew brings twenty years of technology innovation and Internet industry experience to Helium. He invented the Lotus Forms product. Andrew attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BSCS, BSEE, MS and PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
As an experienced CTO and director of engineering, Tracy brings more than 30 years’ experience to the development organization within Helium. Prior to joining Helium, Tracy led the development efforts for a distributed learning company and, before that, for a voter information systems business.
Tracy earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics and a bachelor of arts in Russian from Oberlin College.
John Rozen does everything on a large scale. He has more than 15 years experience building and managing large scale global server networks.
At Helium, John is responsible for site infrastructure.
John holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Salem State and served six years in the U.S. Navy. John spent a large part of his time running not one, but four marathons in just more than a year.
Brian VanKonynenburg is a startup veteran and a recognized leader in product strategy and systems & requirements analysis.
Brian has over 25 years experience working with information technology including operations, IT, development, support strategy, product strategy, facilities and project management.
At Helium he is responsible for management of the new feature queue, product roadmap, product and systems definition and functional design, process, project management and the creative services team.
Brian is a prolific artist who has written screenplays in collaboration with his wife, and has acted in supporting roles in films including Manchurian Candidate and Mystic River. Brian acted in lead roles in independent films shown at the Sundance and Woods Hole film festivals and can be seen on imdb.com as Brian Van Kay.
Janice Brand has more than 20 years experience driving innovation in print and online publications, from Travel & Leisure magazine to IDGs CXO Media.
As VP for Content & Community at Helium, Janice is on the search for great crops of sentences and user-friendly verbicides, when needed.
Janice tends a bug-ridden garden (whose idea was it to go organic anyway?) on Massachusetts Cape Ann, and also tends a few bug-free blogs in her spare time. Shes married to a painter who actually makes stuff with his bare hands.
Peter Newton joins Helium as Vice President of Business Development, responsible for developing strategic alliances and sales for Helium. His initial focus will be creating partnerships with other media companies, including newspapers.
Newton previously worked at Monster.com, most recently as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Monster’s media alliances business, developing and operating partnerships with local media outlets. Monster grew from no newspaper partners to over 200 partners, and more than 120 TV station partners, in under 2 years.
Prior to that, Newton was Senior Vice President/General Manager, Small and Medium Business at Monster. He was responsible for overseeing and directing the entire Monster operation dedicated to growing the company's small- and medium-sized business (SMB) segment. This included driving the continued growth and expansion of Monster's business in key local markets throughout the United States.
A long-time newspaper industry veteran, Mr. Newton joined Monster after an 18-year career with The Boston Globe, where he served as Vice President of Advertising. While serving at the newspaper, he was named President of BostonWorks, the recruitment services division launched by The Globe in 2001. Previously, Mr. Newton also served as manager of advertising administration for the newspaper's advertising department, as an assistant controller, and as an internal audit manager with Affiliated Publications, Inc., The Boston Globe's parent company at the time. Prior to that, Mr. Newton worked at Arthur Andersen & Co. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
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William B. Huff Chairman of the Board, Helium Executive Vice President Affiliated Publications |
Bill was the President of the Boston Globe, a New York Times media company, from 1998 through 2001. Previously Bill rose from Controller to Vice President to Chief Financial Officer to Executive Vice President for Affiliated Publications, owner of the Boston Globe. Bill also serves on the Board of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries and The Parent Review and is a former President of The Wayland Public Schools Foundation. Bill possesses an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. |
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Ann Marie Bushell Group EVP Marketing RR Donnelley |
Ann Marie Bushell serves as Group Executive Vice President, Marketing for RR Donnelley, the world’s largest printer and integrated communications provider. She helps customers identify how RR Donnelley’s broad array of products and services can best be utilized to maximize their cross-channel marketing efforts and effectively manage their enterprise-wide customer relationships. Additionally, Ann Marie helps bring together clients from different industry segments to discover ways in which unique, collaborative marketing initiatives can be developed. With over 30 years of experience in the graphic arts industry, Ann Marie has served in a variety of sales and marketing positions, after having begun her career as a chemist working on imaging technologies. She is a graduate of Douglass College at Rutgers University. |
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Joseph Farrelly CIO Interpublic Group |
Mr. Farrelly brings over 25 years of experience as a senior IT executive. He is presently the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. Interpublic Group is a global provider of advertising and marketing services. He has held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Aventis, Vivendi Universal, Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons, and Nabisco. Mr. Farrelly also had extensive experience as a senior IT executive at Automatic Data Processing (ADP). Mr. Farrelly’s experience covers the Advertising, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Financial Services and Software Industries. Mr. Farrelly is a member of the Boards of Directors of Eggs Overnight, NetNumber, Helium and Tango Networks. |
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Anne Kennedy Managing Partner Beyond Ink |
Anne is founder and Managing Partner of Beyond Ink, an advertising and public relations agency focused on search engine marketing (SEM). Certified an internet professional by Novell, Inc., Anne is on the board of directors of Mesda, Maines IT trade association, and a member of the Public Relations Society of America. She frequently writes and speaks on web marketing and online communications, and publishes Beyond Inks industry digest SEO Newsnet (www.seonews.net). Anne is a regular panelist at Search Engine Strategies and WebMaster World conferences. With three decades of experience in marketing communications, Annes expertise includes search media trends, advertising tactics, website forensics, and developing website strategies. |
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Jeff Levick Director, Global Industry Development and Marketing |
As an early Googler, Jeff has held various executive management positions within Google’s advertising sales organization since 2001. As Director, Global Industry Development and Marketing, Jeff currently leads three key areas for Google’s North American Media Sales Organization: (i) Industry Development, (ii) Sales Marketing and Strategy, and (iii) Global and Multicultural Development. Jeff’s teams represent Google’s industry expertise across all major business markets and are collectively responsible for Google’s revenue relationships with its largest advertising and media partners, both domestically and globally. Jeff recently returned to the U.S. from London, where he was director of the European Vertical Markets Group and a member of Google’s senior management team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In that role, Jeff was responsible for Google’s pan-EMEA industry sales and strategy teams, which advise Google’s largest global clients across 12 countries and a range of industries, including financial services, retail, travel, entertainment, consumer goods, health care, technology and automotive. Before joining the European team, Jeff ran Google’s Financial Services group in the US, where he was responsible for developing and managing Google’s relationships with North American financial services companies and publishers. Jeff joined Google in 2001 from ClearGauge, a leading online business-to-business marketing consultancy, where he was the senior director of Strategic Alliances and General Counsel. Jeff led all of ClearGauge’s strategic initiatives involving external relationships and outsourced ventures. Specifically, Jeff negotiated and maintained relationships with the company’s key partners, including Reed Business Information and DoubleClick. Prior to ClearGauge, Jeff was the vice president of business development at an online business-to-business portal for independent retailers and served as a corporate attorney at the international law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman in Chicago. Jeff holds a BA from New York University and a law degree from DePaul University in Chicago. |
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John Paloin COO RR Donnelley |
John Paloin serves as the Chief Operating Officer of RR Donnelley, the world’s largest printer and integrated communications provider. Prior to being named COO in 2007, John served as Group President of RR Donnelley’s Publishing, Retail and Global Print solutions business. Earlier in his career, John held executive positions at Quebecor World and World Color Press Inc. John is a graduate of the University of Southern California and servers as Trustee of the Wakeman Boys and Girls Club. |
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Steve Pogorzelski CEO ClickFuel |
Steve Pogorzelski is CEO of ClickFuel, which offers a full suite of services which help companies large and small attract new business online. Prior to that he joined Monster in 1998 when Monster had $50 million in sales. He held a variety of positions there, including President, Monster North America; Group President, International; and Executive Vice President, Global Sales. Prior to Monster, he had accumulated 14 years of advertising agency experience. While Steve was President, Monster North America, revenues grew from $424 million in 2003 to $631 million in 2005. Operating margins also grew, including an increase of 58% in 2005. As Group President, Monster International, he was responsible for Monster sites in more than 40 countries. Under his leadership, revenues grew from $187 million in 2005 to $488 million in 2007. Steve is also the co-author of Finding Keepers, which was published in hardcover by McGraw-Hill in January 2008. He has been a frequent commentator on global labor markets and has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, ABC Nightly News, PBS News Hour, Fox News and numerous local television outlets. He has been quoted in dozens of newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. He has also offered commentary on NPR, Wall Street Journal Radio and AP Radio among others. He is a board member and on the executive committee at Morgan Goodwill Industries. Other board affiliations include MLT (Management Leadership for Tomorrow) and the Worcester Academy Board of Visitors. Steve has a BA in Journalism/Advertising from the University of Wisconsin. |
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William J. Turner Managing Director Signature Capital |
Mr. Turner is Managing Director and co-founder of Signature Capital, an entrepreneurial venture capital firm that has guided and funded multiple internet-based businesses. Prior to Signature, Mr. Turner formed Turner and Partners in 1989, a management services firm, specializing in the management of leveraged buy-outs. For one client, Forstmann Little, he served as Executive Chairman and/or Chief Executive Officer for over thirty separate business units with combined annual sales of over $2.5 billion. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Turner served as President, COO and a director of Automatic Data Processing (ADP - NYSE), a computerized transaction processing, data communication and information services firm with 1989 annual revenues of over $2 billion. From 1979 to 1983, he served as the President of the Texas Instruments Consumer Products Division. He served on the board of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac - NYSE) from 1990 to 2006 and currently serves on the boards of several private venture-funded companies, including OurStage, Inc., Acoustic Technologies, Inc., NetNumber, Inc. ZOUNDS, Inc., Tango Networks, Inc. and VIRxSYS Corporation. |
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Andy Miller Founder Miller Communications |
Andy has a proven track record in identifying and responding to the continually evolving needs of the technology marketplace. In 1977, Andy founded Miller Communications, now Miller/Shandwick Technologies, the first firm to specialize in public relations for the Information Technology industry. He led that firm from a one-person start-up to a $60 million, nine-office, global public relations network. Prior to founding Miller Communications, Andy served in various editorial capacities at Little, Brown & Co., as staff writer for the Associated Press, and as Associate Editor of The Harvard Business Review. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Internet Capital Group, VennWorks Inc., and Bullhorn, Inc., and is a member of Walnut Venture and Common Angels. Andy is also on the Advisory Council for Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School. And has served as a member of the Governor's Committee on Telecom Policy for the State of Massachusetts and is a Trustee of The Computer Museum. |
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Ajmal Rahman Independent strategic advisor & private investor |
Ajmal Rahman is an independent strategic advisor and private investor based in London. Since May 2007, Ajmal has served as the Chairman of Rainbow Rewards Holding, a merchant-funded paperless automated loyalty program. Ajmal also serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB: ALIF), a leading global provider of award-winning mobile technology, content, games and applications. He is currently involved in more than 10 different private- equity companies and is acting as an advisor to the board in five of them. Before his current role, Ajmal worked for Merrill Lynch in several senior positions for more than 17 years, from 1986 until 2003. From 2001 to 2003, he was co-head of the Asia Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch, based in Hong Kong. Between 1996 and 2001, he was managing director and regional head of Merrill Lynch's Asian Equity Capital Markets group. Prior to that appointment, Ajmal worked in Equity Capital Markets for Merrill Lynch in London and New York. He has led many significant initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings and convertible bonds both from the corporate sector and from the public sector. In the technology arena, Ajmal has managed multiple equity offerings for Korea's Samsung Electronics, a secondary equity offering from Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor and the initial public offering and subsequent secondary equity offering from India's Satyam Infoways. Under his leadership, Merrill Lynch was awarded both the Asian Equity and Equity Linked House of the Year in 2000. Ajmal is a graduate of Law from Pembroke College at Cambridge University. |
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Robert H. Walter CTO, VP Development NetNumber |
Bob serves as CTO and VP of Development at NetNumber, Inc. where he provides managerial and technical leadership to NetNumber's Development and Network Operations organizations. Prior to joining NetNumber in November 1999, Bob was a consultant at Cisco Systems working on the Cisco Network Registrar product. Prior to consulting at Cisco, Bob was VP of Architecture and Technology at UNIFI Communications. In this capacity, Bob was responsible for UNIFI's messaging services architecture and technology. Prior to joining UNIFI in August of 1997, Bob was lead architect on Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's Virtual Jet Engine program, a large scale, distributed object-oriented system involving the simulation and optimization of multi-dimensional jet engine propulsion systems. |