David Carlick provides strategic guidance and investment support to the womensforum.com executive team. Carlick is a widely recognized leader in marketing, sales, advertising and the Internet. After founding and growing Carlick Advertising into one of Silicon Valley's largest independent agencies, Mr. Carlick created the DBM Group, a direct marketing unit within the agency. He has been involved in launching many notable high tech products and companies, including the first portable computers at Toshiba, Silicon Graphics' 3D workstations, SuperMac's graphics systems, Cirrus Logic's FeatureChips, and Netscape Communications' web products. After Carlick Advertising and the DBM Group merged with Poppe Tyson, a wholly owned subsidiary of BJK&E (Bozell), Mr. Carlick and the agency became recognized as the leaders in strategic Internet marketing. He was selected by Advertising Age as one of the 20 most influential people in the Internet. Mr. Carlick, an early co-founder of the leading Internet ad network company, DoubleClick, handled the launch of advertising sales for Netscape and Excite, and served as a Board member of International Network Services from conception to acquisition by Lucent. |