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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1029 : Matt Ferguson : CareerBuilder
Matt is currently CEO of CareerBuilder, where he works with Kevin Knapp (formerly of Cars.com), Farhan Yasin & Richard Castellini (both formerly of DigitalWork) as well as Eric Presley and others from his previous life at Headhunter.net. Tim Landon is a board member. He was VP of Business Development at Headhunter.net until the CareerBuilder acquisition. Prior to that, he was at DigitalWork and a few other entrepreneurial ventures he founded. He began as a a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie. His law degree is from Northwestern and an MBA from University of Chicago.
> CareerBuilder
> Headhunter.net
> DigitalWork
> U of C
> Northwestern
1016 : Michael Alter : SurePayroll
Michael headed up Sales for SurePayroll (working with Troy Henikoff and Scott Wald) before taking the reins as President at the #1 online payroll provider. Prior to that he was with McKinsey, attended Harvard Business School and Northwestern undergrad.
> SurePayroll
> Northwestern
1012 : Viresh Bhatia : InstallShield
Viresh founded InstallShield with Rick Harold trying to create a geographic mapping system for Windows. After three years and not much success they stumbled upon the product we know them for. They were acquired by Macrovision for $74MM in '04. Scott Wald was once a Director.
> InstallShield
> Northwestern
1009 : Bob Geras : LaSalle Investments
Bob is the Godfather (in the good sense) of the local technology investors. He's funded, advised, founded or run more companies than we'll ever profile. That includes Intellext (Al Wasserberger), VHT (Brian Balduf), ShowingTime (Scott Woodard), Katabat Corporation (Eric Antonow, Dave Sidwell), Advanced Diamond Technologies, Arryx, Merge Heathcare, MEDX, Sivox, OrthoScan, Genix Therapeutics, Bias Power, Capital Growth, Exadigm. He founded budget motel chain Sixpence Inns which was acquired by Motel 6. As part of a telecom venture, he was guarded by warlords as he set up earth stations in Siberia. He's also been involved in the following funds: Kettle Partners (Mark Achler), K-B Partners (Keith Bank), Crestview Capital, Dunrath Partners, Ceres Venture Fund, Artesian Capital.
> Intellext
> Katabat
> VHT
> ShowingTime
> Arryx
> Merge Heathcare
> Bias Power and far too many others to list
> Northwestern
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
