Jamie is best known as the founder and CEO of Performics - an online marketing firm that was an early advocate of text ads and helped spur the adoption of Overture and Google AdWords. He built the firm with Stuart Frankel and Chris Heneger, and sold in 2004 to DoubleClick for $60MM+. Since then he has served as a Director at PRIMIS Marketing Group until it was acquired in 2006. There he worked with Dan DiCaro who, like Stu and Chris, worked with Howard Tullman in a past venture. Prior to Performics he was was COO of FastParts - one of the early business-to-business Internet auctioning models. He graduated from Kellogg as well as Northwestern's engineering school.
> PRIMIS Marketing
> Performics
> FastParts
> Kellogg
> Northwestern
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1035 : Eric Antonow : Freshwater Venture
Eric co-founded and edits Freshwater Venture with Keith Schacht, and he chairs the Chicago board of the Taproot Foundation with Adam Hecktman, Chris Morgan, Charles Coustan. He's worked with Zach Kaplan and Josh Metnick as an advisor to their respective companies. He was CEO of Katabat Corporation, acquired in 2005 by Trader Publishing/Dominion. He built the company with Dave Sidwell, Ara Bayindiryan, and many others (with a financial assist from Bob Geras). Prior to Katabat, Eric was at Giant Step with Kate Edwards, Eric Heneghan, Mike Ruffalo, Rishad Tobaccowala, Mike Leff, Sean Chou and Mike Sands before the company was acquired by Leo Burnett. Eric graduated from the University of Michigan and Kellogg. In January, he's headed to Google.
> Google
> Taproot Foundation
> Inventables
> Chicago.com
> Katabat
> Giant Step
> Kellogg
> U of M
1019 : Sam Sebastian : Google
Sam is Director Classifieds and Local for Google and works out of their Chicago office where he works with Kristen Morrisey and Kevin Willer. He previously was a VP at Classified Ventures and GM of their Homescape division where he worked with Dean Rutter, Matt Wise, Tim Landon and Daniel Jauernig.
> Google
> Classified Ventures
> Homescape
> Kellogg
> Ohio State
1006 : Howard Tullman : Cobalt Group
Even Howard's abridged history touches dozens of other companies and entrepreneurs. He founded CCC Information Services - the industry database for auto insurance claims - which spawned no less than David Mullen (COO NAVTEQ), Dan DiCaro (CEO, PRIMIS), Glen Tullman (CEO of Allscripts) as well as Kate Edwards and Peter Largen (CEO/CTO of CenterPost). He also founded CD-ROM company Imagination Pilots where he worked with Mark Achler; online music pioneer Tunes.com where he worked with Stu Frankel and Chris Henger of Performics and Andy Jonusiatis of Toplander; Eager Enterprises with Mark Walsh (CEO VerticalNet). He also has been CEO/President at Kendall College, Worldwide Xceed, Information Kinetics, and COIN.
> Experiencia World
> Kendall College
> Xceed
> Tunes.com
> Imagination Pilots
> CCC Information Services
1002 : Troy Henikoff : Amacai
Troy is President of Amacai (sub of TARGUSInfo), a provider of consumer and business contact information. Co-founder of SurePayroll with Scott Wald (and Mark Achler was an investor while at Kettle Partners). Worked with Harry Gottlieb at Jellyvision helping to create You Don't Know Jack. Founded Specialized Systems which he sold to Medline. Worked with Doug Grimsted on a start up and and sits on his board at Aginity. Teaches with Barry Merkin at Kellogg where he also got his MBA.
> Amacai
> SurePayroll
> Jellyvision
> Specialized Systems
> Aginity
> Kellogg
