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Technorati Management Team
Richard Jalichandra
Richard is a veteran Internet executive whose media experience includes leadership roles across the media spectrum: as a client, at an agency, as a publisher, and with an advertising network. Most recently, he worked as an M&A and strategy consultant for several Internet properties and investment firms, and also served as SVP of Corporate Development for Exponential Interactive, Tribal Fusion’s parent company. Previously, he was SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media, and was the Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at IGN Entertainment (acquired by Fox Interactive), where he led the company’s M&A, business development and international activities. Before joining IGN, Richard led national accounts sales at Lycos, was Vice President of Business Development at Neopost Online, served as Senior Vice President/Managing Director of Answerthink, and founded K23 Creative Services in Singapore. His early career included management roles for Ford, IBM and Siemens, and he has a B.S. in business administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Teresa Malo
Teresa is a CPA with over 17 years experience in finance and operations, and she’s responsible for Technorati’s financial, legal, and HR organizations. She has worked with technology startup companies such as Calico Commerce and Zambeel, as well as with established companies, including Arbor Software and Silicon Graphics. Teresa started her career as an accountant with Pannell, Kerr, Forster, a national public accounting firm. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting and Computer Information systems from Arizona State University and the University of Washington.
Dorion Carroll
Dorion Carroll is a 20-year veteran engineer with deep experience developing product and services in areas including search, email processing, e-commerce, personalization, ad targeting, CRM, data warehousing, order management and financial services. Prior to joining Technorati, Dorion was director of engineering at Postini, Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of Neomeo (which was acquired by Postini), Technologist-in-Residence at Softbank Venture Capital, and Senior Director of Engineering at Excite@Home, among other roles. Dorion has a Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, with four years Mathematics / Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California.
Shani Higgins
Shani is a Silicon Valley executive with business development experience at tech companies and investment funds. She served as both the Director of Partner Services and the Director of Commerce Market Development for Infoseek/GO Network starting in 1996, where she helped grow Infoseek's multimillion dollar marketing agreements from $30+ million in 1998 to $70+ million in 1999. She then served as VP of Business Development for SmartPlanet (Ziff Davis), and consequently as a Venture Capitalist for Benedek Investment Group in New York, NY. Most recently, she operated as VP of Business Development at Tacit Software Inc, before joining Technorati. Shani earned her BA-Communication (with Art History and Economics minors) from Rutgers University.
John Marston
John Marston has over 25 years of general management experience in a range of companies where he has taken ideas and turned them into profitable businesses. Prior to joining Technorati he was President and CEO of AdEngage, which was acquired by Technorati in October 2008, Vice President of Business Development for Toshiba America Information Systems and Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). John has Bachelor of Engineering degree from Liverpool University, a Masters of Engineering from Imperial College London and an MBA from London Business School.
Jennifer McLean
Jennifer McLean joined Technorati to head up the company's marketing and communications efforts. Previously, Jennifer held positions with Glam Media and Double Fusion, a videogame advertising network, where she ran marketing, public relations, developed in-game programs for national advertisers and launched Double Fusion’s In-Game Advertising Summit event series and In-Game Advertising Effectiveness research. As Director of Marketing for IGN Entertainment/Fox Interactive Media, Jennifer was responsible for marketing, public relations, events and tradeshows, strategic partnerships and custom client promotions. At CMP media, Jennifer handled marketing and public relations, for the Game Developers Conference, GDC Mobile, the Independent Games Festival, and Gamasutra.com. Jennifer received her bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tony Pribyl
Tony is an online publishing & media sales veteran who began his career in magazine publishing — 10+ years with Men's Health, Newsweek and Sunset Magazine. He joined Women.com Networks as Sales Director and was promoted to Gen Mgr, Content Syndication prior to the network merger with iVillage.com in 2000. He took on Regional Sales Management roles with both MSN and Google, and was most recently Regional VP, Sales with Tribal Fusion, a top tier site representation firm. He earned his BA-Advertising from San Jose State University and his MBA-Marketing from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Dave White
Dave joins Technorati with over ten years experience in online publishing and web development, with expertise in consumer-centric web applications and social media. Prior to joining Technorati, Dave led the Community Publishing Group of IGN Entertainment, a division of FOX Interactive Media, where he was responsible for the Vault and Planet Networks, TeamXbox.com, Voodoo Extreme. Dave and his team also pioneered the IGN “World” sites: Smash Bros World and GTA ‘Hood. Before IGN, Dave developed websites for companies including Intuit and Military.com. He is also an expert on video gamer communities and has written extensively about massively multiplayer games, appearing in Computer Gaming World Magazine, IGN.com, and The EverQuest Manual. He has a B.A. in Political Economy from Tulane University and an M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.