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Tom Beecher - President & CEO
As President and CEO, Tom brings nearly 20 years of experience building businesses that require both consumer marketing expertise and business services skills. Prior to joining Mall Networks, Tom was CEO of Imagitas, a private-label marketing services company. Imagitas connects America’s largest marketers – like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Home Depot -- with highly valuable but hard-to-reach consumers by partnering with government agencies like the U.S. Postal Service. He joined Imagitas in 1996, and played a series of key roles in setting company strategy, managing relationships with key clients, and growing the company’s core lines of business. While CFO at Imagitas, he led the successful sale of the company to Pitney-Bowes and held the CEO position for two years.
Subsequent to Imagitas, Tom was Managing Partner at Biltmore Capital Partners, a private investment fund. Early in his career, Tom was a consultant at Bain & Co., president and co-founder of a start-up, and a financial services product manager at Fleet Financial Group (subsequently acquired by Bank of America).
He has an A.B. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
David L. Andre - Founder and Chairman
An experienced entrepreneur and executive with more than twenty years’ experience building and growing successful Internet and technology businesses, David Andre co-founded Mall Networks in 2005. A recognized expert in Internet search and e-commerce, David was founding CTO of Upromise, the largest and most successful coalition loyalty program in the United States. At Upromise, David was responsible for one of the company’s most critical business processes – the development and evolution of Upromise’s technology platform. At Upromise, David also managed ongoing business, technology and partner operations. He developed and implemented the business model for Upromise Online Shopping, one of the Internet’s most successful online e-commerce sites.
Prior to Upromise, David served as VP of Engineering at Lycos (acquired by Terra Networks SA) and Direct Hit (acquired by Ask Jeeves). Prior to this, David held senior technology roles at Rational Software (acquired by IBM), Object Design (acquired by Progress Software) and Symbolics. He also served four years in the U.S. Air Force at National Security Agency.
David holds a M.S.C.S. from the University of Maryland and a B.S.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ben Kaplan - Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer, Ben oversees client services, technical services, product development, marketing, merchant relations and business development at Mall Networks.
Ben brings 15 years of marketing, product management and business development experience in a wide range of high tech markets including e-Commerce, CRM, Social Networking, Search, Content Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics.
Before Mall Networks, Ben was Vice President of Marketing at KNOVA Software, a leading provider of customer service, self-service and intelligent search applications. At KNOVA, Ben helped grow the company from 5 to 200 customers and established the product suite as an award-winning market leader prior to the company's acquisition by Battery Ventures and Consona in December 2006.
Earlier in his career, Ben held executive and management positions at North Systems, Broadbase/KANA and Commerce One.
Ben holds a BA from Harvard College.
Christopher Hemme - Chief Financial Officer
As CFO of Mall Networks, Christopher Hemme is responsible for overseeing all of the company's financial operations and its plans for growth.
Christopher brings more than 20 years of accounting, finance and operational experience at fast growing technology companies. Prior to joining Mall Networks, Christopher served as Vice President of Finance at SoundBite Communications where he was directly involved with all aspects of the company's IPO ($43M). Before Soundbite, Christopher served as Corporate Controller at Winphoria Networks, Inc. where he helped secure series "B" financing of $42 million and played a key role in the sale of Winphoria to Motorola in May 2003.
Christopher holds a BS in business economics from S.U.N.Y. at Oneonta and an MBA from Suffolk University.
John Mangan - VP of Sales
As vice president of sales, John oversees the development of new business. He has more than 20 years of experience in building and negotiating affinity partnerships and loyalty marketing programs.
Previous to joining Mall Networks, John was VP of new business development at The Kessler Group, where he developed partnership solutions for clients and prospects in the financial services arena, focusing on leveraging affinity partner assets to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction. He also developed co-marketing agreements between Kessler clients and various marketing solutions companies to improve acquisition and loyalty marketing results. Prior to The Kessler Group, Mangan spent 17 years at MBNA America most recently as marketing director for product development. In this capacity, he developed and implemented new products and credit card loyalty programs for large affinity groups. Also at MBNA, Mangan had extensive experience partnering with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express to maximize cardholder value propositions and customer loyalty.
Mangan holds a bachelor of science in marketing and finance from University of Delaware. He has served on various committees for the Ronald McDonald House.
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