|
|
|||||||||||
A big macher for 8 years at Barry Diller's company, IAC/InterActiveCorp -- which started as a traditional entertainment company and transformed into an e-commerce and new media powerhouse -- IAC 1.0 owned & operated leading entertainment businesses including USA Network, SciFi Channel, Studios USA, and USA Films. IAC 2.0 owned and operated leading e-commerce & new media companies including Expedia, Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Ask Jeeves, LendingTree, Match.com, and Citysearch. At IAC, a lead player in over $20 billion of deals, and in the company’s organization and operation as a multi-business operating company. Specific roles were Chief of Business Operations and member of the Office of the Chairman; and, before that, General Counsel. Listed in Business Week as one of 25 “Managers to Watch” in the media business. Recently co-founded Rock Creek Ventures, an investment and advisory services firm focused on new media and e-commerce, based in Washington DC. On Boards of Directors of The Motley Fool; Website Pros; Beliefnet; JackBe. Board of Advisors of Truveo and Rapt. Part of the organizing group launching New Resource Bank, a San Francisco for-profit bank focusing on clean tech, renewable energy, energy-efficient real-estate developments and other businesses in the ‘sustainability’ space. Non-profit: Board of Directors of Common Sense Media; and Board of Advisors of Environmental Entrepreneuers. Lawyer by training ... Harvard Law School, and a clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court (for Justice David Souter). Prior life as government official ... Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. And staff member of the U.S. Congress Committee investing the Iran-Contra Affair. Entrepreneurial roots ... Re-established Columbia College’s oldest newspaper, Acta Columbiana; and was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Guide to New York. Wonderful documentary filmmaking wife, Rachel Goslins. Two incredibly fantastic kids, Jake & Lilah.
Last Modified 4/1/06 12:14 PM |
