socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

The company said Monday that it is tapping the former Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Fox Interactive Media / MySpace, Michael Barrett , as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, under interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, the firm said Monday. Barrett was Chief Revenue Officer at Los Angeles-based MySpace.

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Yahoo Google Media Sales 154

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Padnos was the founder of Better PPC , a pay-per-click technology firm which helped small and medium sized businesses manage, optimize, and report on their PPC campaigns; Padnos sold BetterPPC in September of 2008 to Tsavo, the content startup headed by now-MySpace co-President Michael Jones. Padnos also has served at Yahoo!

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PPC Tsavo Sales Yahoo 182

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2011

had sued NBC over a failed domain name sale back in May of 2010, after it said NBC Universal agreed to sell the company Women.com and Women.net in via domain name broker Sedo. NBC apparently agreed to sell the domain, based on emails included in the lawsuit, but then backed out at the last minute on the sale.

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Tsavo Sales Email Los Angeles 203

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2011

Ventures , the Internet marketing and publishing firm headed by Ben Padnos, has sued domain name broker Sedo , over the firm's role in a mishandled sale of the domain names Women.com and Women.net. DONE claims that NBC agreed to sell the two domains via Sedo, but backed out in the last minute on the sale. According to DONE!

Manhattan Beach 179

Manhattan Beach Tsavo Sales Media 179

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? Does advertising work in the social networking world?

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well.

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Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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