Bill is responsible for leading the company's overall strategy and guiding day-to-day operations. Bill was most recently SVP and GM of the Yahoo Publisher Network Group. At Overture, acquired by Yahoo in 2003, Bill helped lead the company to distribution and publisher revenues of $1 billion. Following the acquisition, Yahoo Publisher Network Group revenues more than doubled through 2006 as Bill and his team built hundreds of exclusive distribution relationships with major Internet sites and publishers of all sizes. In his four and a half years at Overture and Yahoo, Bill initiated and oversaw Yahoo's Domain Match and Yahoo Publisher Network product and business lines. Previously, Bill served as Executive Vice President, Product Development and Marketing for Vividence Corporation (acquired by Keynote) and during his six years with Microsoft, he held a variety of prominent consumer product and enterprise business roles spanning from Encarta Encyclopedia to SQL Server. Prior to that, Bill spent four years in sales with IBM. Bill currently serves on the boards of Turn and Citizen Hawk and is on the advisory board of Digital Performance. Bill earned an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University. |