Jord Poster - Chairman and CEO

• Member of founders team of Priceline.com, responsible for original competitive and brand strategy; conceived of ground-breaking marketing and advertising strategy starring William Shatner.
• Division President of The American Express VIP Service, a joint venture with American Express and Synapse Inc., a division of Time Inc.
• Founder of Marketplace Inc., a strategy consulting firm sold to Hill Holliday. Inc., a unit of IPG Worldwide.

David Wagner - President and COO

• Decade-plus experience leading operations and finance for venture-backed technology and marketing companies, most recently as COO & CFO of BzzAgent, Inc. (a social media/word-of-mouth marketing company powered by the networks of 750,000 volunteer brand evangelists).
• Launching Country Director, Vietnam, for the ten-nation U.S. government Office of Technology Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Corporate litigator with Shearman & Sterling in New York City.

Cristina Courey Duggan - Executive Vice President & GM

• Director, Genesis Capital Ventures, LLC.
• Manager of Marketing Strategy & Business Development at Murad, an $80 million luxury skincare company.
• Associate of Business Development at iBlast Networks, a digital distribution network for broadcasting of media-rich content.
• Senior Analyst at Morgan Stanley.

Phil O'Donnell - VP, Finance

• Corporate Controller, Vantage Travel Service, Inc. a $180 million direct marketer of travel.
• CFO, Educational Travel Alliance, Inc. (eTrav), an Internet educational travel company.
• Vice President/Assistant Controller/International Accounting Manager, American Council for International Studies (ACIS), a $65 million educational travel company.
• Certified Public Accountant.

Kate Brandeis - VP, Communications and Marketing

• Account Director at Aviatech, an integrated marketing and advertising firm with clients in the private and public sector.
• Account Executive at Donordigital, an online advocacy and fundraising partner for nonprofit clients such as Amnesty International and UNICEF USA.
• Event Lead at On Your Feet Project San Francisco, a fundraising events organization benefiting community-based initiatives.

Charles Veysey - VP, Partnership Development

• Associate of New Business Development, Vision Sports and Entertainment Partners, recently bought by the Active Network.
• Sales Associate, Citysearch, Inc., an IAC Company.
• Managed Nantucket Nectars first Guerilla Mobile Marketing Team; program now in its 9th year.

Steve Dyer - Senior Director of Technology

• Over 20 years’ expertise in early-stage startup companies, including Maven Networks, acquired by Yahoo! for $160 million, and the early social networking site, PlanetAll, purchased for $100 million by Amazon.
• VP of Development at Jenzabar, a leading educational ERP company.
• Engineering Manager at Softscape, a leader in the emerging talent-management space.

Brad Shannon - VP, Operations

• Area Manager – Central Iraq, Baghdad, The National Company for Mechanical & Electrical Works (Kharafi National).
• Director Outsourcing, Veolia Water Asia, the world leader in the provision of water and wastewater management services.
• Vice President, Regional Manager Asia Pacific, Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, responsible for all regional operations and market development activities.

Kurt Aschermann - President, Charity Partners Foundation

• Former SVP and Chief Marketing & Development Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
• Leader in cause-related marketing and corporate partnerships in the non-profit community; helped secure over $300 million in corporate/cause branding gifts within six years.
• Created systems and programs to stabilize organization’s fundraising operation; dramatically increased overall donor base and diversified methods used to raise money. (In 1990, BGCA raised approximately $280 million; in 2006, BGCA raised $1.2 billion.)