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Daylife is brought to you by a dedicated group of self-professed news junkies (and top-of-the-line geeks) who set out on a journey to transform the world of news delivery. And, working closely with our clients,  we learn a lot and have fun along the way.

MANAGEMENT

Salek Brodsky, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Brodsky brings over a decade of business strategy and operating experience to the company. Most recently, he served as SVP of Corporate Development for Verified Person, Inc. where he was responsible for developing and managing the company's channel partnerships and strategic accounts.

Prior to his work with Verified Person, Mr. Brodsky worked at StarMedia Network, Inc. (now France Telecom), where he headed business, product, and corporate development. As SVP of Corporate Development for StarMedia, he was responsible for managing the publicly traded media company's acquisition and investment activities. While serving in a product and business development capacity, Mr. Brodsky directed international product strategy and new product development, as well as the negotiation of technology, content, and distribution agreements. Mr. Brodsky joined StarMedia from Firefly Network, Inc. where he was responsible for business development and product marketing.

Mr. Brodsky earned his A.B. from Harvard University. 

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John Donovan, Co-founder and Vice President of Client Services

Most recently, Mr. Donovan was a founder and principal of The Spoken Hub, LLC, where he developed technology that enabled the coordination, motivation, and mobilization of massive but loosely affiliated groups. The Spoken Hub's technology powered several of the largest citizen mobilization efforts in history, including programs by the Kerry-Edwards Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and America Coming Together.

Previously, Mr. Donovan was Vice President of Interactive Development at Global Media Holdings, where he led product development, operations, and creative direction of converged media properties.

Mr. Donovan spent 8 years in advertising, during which he developed interactive marketing practices at two New York agencies. At Wunderman Cato Johnson (the world's largest direct marketing firm), Mr. Donovan participated in the development of one of the first Interactive Advertising units at a traditional agency.

Independently, Mr. Donovan has consulted such companies as Peppers and Rodgers Group, Firefly Network (now Microsoft), Barnes & Noble.com, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lucent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, and PeoplePC.

Mr. Donovan received his BA from Dartmouth College, and has been an adjunct faculty member at New York University, where he taught a masters level course on Publishing and the Internet.

 

Marc Hedlund, Chief Product Officer

Before joining Daylife, Marc was CEO and co-founder of Wesabe.  Marc was entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media, where he developed the ideas behind Wesabe. Prior to O’Reilly, he was VP of engineering at Sana Security, an enterprise software startup developing an “immune system” for protecting servers from worms and hackers. Marc co-founded and was CEO of Popular Power, a distributed computing startup. He also founded and led Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd; was director of engineering at Organic Online; and was CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994. Marc is a graduate of Reed College.

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Chris Neimeth, Chief Commercial Officer

Before joining Daylife, Mr. Neimeth was CEO of Salon Media Group, where he managed development of OpenSalon, the company’s social blogging platform featuring the Internet’s first fee-free, peer-to-peer content payment solution.  Prior to Salon, he was President of InterActive Corp. Partner Marketing, where he drove rapid, eight-figure income growth through integrated marketing programs and advertising sales across IAC’s stable of companies, including Ticketmaster, Expedia, Hotels.com, Match.com, Citysearch, and Evite.

 

Additionally, Mr. Neimeth was CEO of Real Media, where he oversaw the integration of European, Asian, and Latin American acquisitions and did the company’s S-1 filing for the SEC. Mr. Neimeth joined Real Media after serving as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Planning at The New York Times Digital. While at The New York Times, he conceived and implemented NYTimes.com’s mandatory site registration and international subscription program, which was used to pioneer the Web’s first demographic 1-to-1 dynamic advertising solution. Mr. Neimeth cut his teeth at Grey Advertising, where he managed media planning for most of the agency’s Procter & Gamble business and then co-founded Grey Interactive in 1994. 

 

Mr. Neimeth graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in Anthropology and Economics, has been invited twice to the Aspen Institute’s forum on communication and society and has twice served as an elected member of the IAB Board of Directors.

 

Upendra Shardanand, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman

Mr. Shardanand co-founded his first venture, Firefly Network, as a spin-off of his work at the MIT Media Lab. (His graduate thesis centered on collaborative filtering, the recommendation technology now commonplace on the web). Firefly Network was a pioneer in personalization and several web technologies, and was acquired by Microsoft in 1998.  At Microsoft, Mr. Shardanand launched Microsoft Passport, and represented Microsoft on industry bodies to further the cause of online privacy.

Following Microsoft, Mr. Shardanand was a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, a venture firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London.

Mr. Shardanand went on to serve as the Director of Technology of Advanced Services at AOL,  and then served at the Directory of Technology at Time Warner (TWX).

Mr. Shardanand received a Masters of Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and has guest-lectured at New York University and the City University of New York.

Mr. Shardanand serves on the board of advisors for BrandKarma, Help Remedies, and BluMail.  Previously, he served on the board of advisors Treehugger (acquired by Discovery), to the Better Business Bureau Online, PeoplePC (acquired by EarthLink), MediaCode (acquired by Yahoo), RealNames, and InsightFirst (acquired by 24/7 RealMedia).

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Tom Tercek, Co-founder and Vice President of Strategic Development

Prior to Daylife, Mr. Tercek helped launch Publicis Groupe's emerging media division, Denuo. As SVP / Ventures, he co-headed the unit's strategic partnership & investments activity, as well as all client and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies. He held a similar role at Starcom Mediavest Group from 2001-05.

Mr. Tercek is a former television producer and programmer with over 20 years experience, including 9 years with MTV Networks. He later co-founded Global Media Holdings, where he created and launched two cable networks in Japan (science fiction channel SF and SheTV, the first channel created for women in Japan).  Both channels featured cross-platform programming to incorporate viewer interaction and participation.  

In 2000, Mr. Tercek also oversaw network development, programming, and marketing of AtomTelevision, a cable television channel devoted exclusively to the emerging world of short films, available on domestic cable systems throughout the US.

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Jeff Jarvis, Partner

Mr. Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. Additionally, he consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; and a reporter for Chicago Today.

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INVESTORS

Getty Images

Getty Images is a leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work, which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. 

COMPANY.GETTYIMAGES.COM

Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is one of Europe’s largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages approximately USD 1.5 billion in committed venture capital. Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including the UK, US, China, Russia, and Scandinavia.

WWW.BALDERTON.COM

Arts Alliance

Arts Alliance is a venture capital organization that supports high growth companies in Europe with a particular focus on technology-enabled services. Arts Alliance has invested in over 40 companies since 1996. Key areas of interest include media & entertainment, mobile services, retail & logistics, marketing services, outsourcing, and energy.

WWW.ARTSALLIANCE.CO.UK

New York Times

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company with 2006 revenues of $3.3 billion, includes The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM, and more than 30 Web sites including NYTimes.com, Boston.com, and About.com. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting, and distributing high-quality news, information, and entertainment.

WWW.NYTCO.COM

Angel Investors

Shaun Abrahamson, Carter Adamson, Michael Arrington, Azeem Azhar, Salek Brodsky, John Borthwick, Doug Chertok, Ron Conway, Nick Grouf, Scott Heiferman, Matt Hogan, Andrew Janfaza, Robin Klein, Saul Klein, Rich LeFurgy, Ken Lerer, Salman Malik, Brendan McGovern, Kieran McKiernan, Matt Meeker, Alexandra and Max Metral, Robin and Shimmin Neustein, Craig Newmark, Sam Perry, Eric Poh, Sridhar Rao, Andrew Rasiej, Jon Rubin, Andy Sack, Mika Salmi, Tony Schmitz, Justin Smith, Keith Teare, Dave Winer, Rex Wong, Mike Yavonditte.

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