John had his start in the online advertising industry as an ad trafficker at Tribal Fusion. There, he developed a fundamental understanding of online advertising theory and technology. John eventually took on the role of Performance Manager and oversaw the optimization of Tribal Fusion’s direct response network totaling $24mm/year.

Prior to joining Tribal Fusion, Mark was a Senior Business Development Manager at Everyone.net. While there, Mark was responsible for managing the team that built out an advertising network of over a thousand, high quality, high traffic partner sites that reached over 75 million unique U.S. internet users monthly.

Mark began his sales and business development career in 1997 in the data capture/collection industry as a Sales Representative at Sidco Labeling Systems where he served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies. He graduated from San Jose State University with a Major in Industrial Psychology and a Minor in Business.

Prior to joining MIVA, Dave was at Sandbox.com as East Coast Sales Manager. Sandbox.com was one of the pioneers of online fantasy sports and, while there, Dave billed over $7 million in ad sales with key clients Ford, Lipton, AT&T and Playboy.

Dave began his media career in 1998 as a media buyer at J. Walter Thompson for the $350 million dollar Warner Lambert account. He Graduated from SUNY Albany in 1997 with a Major in English and Minor in Business. Dave is an avid skier, a lover of music, a diehard Yankee fan and a married Father of two Sons, Trajan and Lincoln.

Prior to joining Exponential Interactive, Dinggang was Group Lead of core technology group in medical search engine startup Stanford Skolar(acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health in 2003), responsible for implementing search-enhancement technology into content search engine system and working with Stanford lab directors to lead ongoing research projects in the Stanford lab. Dinggang has also held software engineer and project lead positions at Enkata Technologies and eQuorum.

Dinggang received his B.E. in Engineering Mechanics and Computer Applications from Tsinghua University, and his M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

In his spare time, Dinggang likes to answer questions in forums. He enjoys playing bridge and other card games, hiking and volunteer work.

An avid outdoorsman and political junkie, Dan currently lives in San Francisco with his wife. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon with degrees in Political Science and Marketing.

Prior to MetricMesh, Franco was Vice President of Product Development for John Q Media and also served as a Director of Engineering for Miva Direct, responsible for the design and development of several large-scale, server-side and client-side applications. Franco came to Miva through the acquisition of Comet Systems, where he worked as the development director for server-side technology initiatives and played an instrumental role in the due diligence process leading to the acquisition of Comet in 2004.

Before joining Comet Systems, Franco was the Director of Server-Side Software Engineering for CyberTel, Inc. principally involved in the creation of CyberTel’s Pure-Play-IP telecommunications software architecture, and received several accolades for successfully designing, developing, and patenting their message synchronization technology (PureSync) – consolidating and synchronizing voice, e-mail, fax, and SMS messages. Additionally, Franco has held leadership roles at AT&T/Bell Labs and New World Technologies, and has maintained representative positions in a variety of technology organizations and consortia, as well as several board seats in a variety of high tech companies.

Being both a visionary and engineer, Franco studied Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, and graduated from New York University for Computer Science. During his days in Architecture, Franco helped to design several international hotels and resorts, and continues to engage in architecture as a hobby.