SEO Pledge has a solid management team with decades of experience in working with large enterprises and understanding the needs of small businesses. SEO Pledge is proud to be one of the Canrock Ventures portfolio companies. Canrock is an early stage technology venture capital fund, which focuses on turning good technology ideas into great technology businesses.
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Jim Estill – Board Member Jim founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX Canada in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX until May 2009. Jim has been on the board of RIM (Blackberry) since before they went public. |
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Mark Fasciano – Board Member Mark has 14 years of technology startup experience and is a serial entrepreneur. In 1996 he co-founded FatWire Software and helped grow the company to become a leading Web Content Management software provider with $40,000,000 in sales. |
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Ted Smith – Board Member
Ted has been Chairman and CEO of John Hassall, Inc. since 2004, a privately held manufacturer of cold-formed rivets. From 1997 to 2004 Ted served as president of John Hassall and prior to that he served in various positions in manufacturing and sales for John Hassall, Inc. Ted currently is a board member of Global Telecom & Technology. |
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Phil Smith – CEO Phil has 13 years experience running technology companies. Phil started EZZI.net in 1998 as an ISP and branched out into various market segments (data center services, hardware sales, off-shore call center services, consulting services and VoIP). The company was eventually sold in 2005. In 2006, Phil launched a software-as-a-service division for Falconstor Software (NASDAQ:FALC) and formed partnerships with the likes of IBM, Intel, HP and SAVVIS. Today, Phil is lucky to be part of a superior management team that plans to make SEO Pledge a leading Internet marketing services company. |
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John Martin – Vice President of Business Development
John has over 25 years experience in high-tech sales and channel development and has specific experience in high-tech distribution, Internet, application & web based software sales, ECM sales, SaaS and professional services. John’s expertise will help build enterprise level contracts and customers. Some of the enterprise “wins” John established recently include Research In Motion, Toyota, Tennessee Valley Authority and JP Morgan. |
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Howard March – Vice President of Sales Howard previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Cambridge Street Metal, where he managed all operational functions of the company since 2003. Under March’s leadership CSM, founded in 1933, had refined and expanded its position as New England’s leading distributor of quality metals and packaging materials. Prior to CSM, he was President of Data Becker Corporation, a privately held diversified software publisher from 1998 to 2003. |
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John Murcott – Vice President of Product Development John co-founded FatWire Software in 1996. He led the FatWire products group and engineering team and was responsible for product strategy and direction. He grew an offshore engineering team in Hyderabad, India to support development and QA processes for the products. He is an expert on persuasive content centric applications. |
