Leadership Team
The TD Foundation has blessed by the generous efforts of a dedicated group of leaders who have given countless hours to promote the goals and fulfill the mission of TDF. They work tirelessly without any thought of compensation as we are an all-volunteer grassroots organization. We are truly grateful for their participation and commitment for so many years.
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS:
William Flatley, Co-Founder
Bill Flatley is the Managing Director of SalesGain, LLC., a sales training and media consultancy.
Previously Bill was Managing Director of ForbesAutos.com and ForbesTraveler.com from January 2007 through June 2008.. In this position, he was responsible for all P&L and operational issues relating to both of these websites. From 2001 to 2006, Bill served as Vice President and Chief Advertising Officer of Forbes.com. During this time, company revenue grew 700%. In addition, Bill’s team was recognized for their outstanding achievements by both the Jack Myers Report and Advertiser Perceptions.
Bill joined Forbes in 1989 as the West Coast Manager of the magazine and after relocating to New York to become Advertising Director, was named Vice President of Worldwide Sales in 1996. He was instrumental in the launch of four critical Forbes ventures, leading the sales teams in the creation of: Forbes.com, ForbesAutos.com, the Forbes Conference Group and Forbes Custom Media. He is an active member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and a board member of the Online Publishers Association (OPA). He also serves on the advisory boards of a number of internet startups and philanthropic boards.
Prior to joining Forbes, Bill was at Newsweek magazine, both in its Los Angeles and Chicago offices.
A graduate of Lewis University in Joliet, Illinois, Bill and his wife reside in Darien, Connecticut. They have three grown children.
Bill is currently an Elder at Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien CT and was previously on the church board at Glenview Community Church, Glenview Ill. Additionally, he is and active in a number local and national of charities.
Dave Morgan
Dave is a serial entrepreneur. He was the founder, CEO and Chairman of both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing in 2001 and was acquired by AOL in September 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. Most recently, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
Dave has been a big supporter of organizations focused on building future media leaders and is a member of the boards of directors of both the American Press Institute and the International Radio & Television Society.
Morgan received a B.A. in Political Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, writer Lorea Canales, and their two girls.
Patrick O’Hanlon
Patrick is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley’s Global Procurement Organization. He joined the Company in February 2010 to build and lead the Firm’s Supplier Risk Management Program.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Patrick led global reorganizational efforts across the Credit Suisse (CS) enterprise. Initially he was a founding member of the Investment Bank’s Global Expense Management Team and later was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer for the Corporate Real Estate and Services Department. Finally, he was asked by CS’ Chief Procurement Officer to join his team in order to lead a global restructuring of the Firm-wide Sourcing organization.
Before joining Credit Suisse, Patrick was a Vice President of Finance at MBIA and a Fixed Income Capital Market’s banker at Goldman Sachs where he worked with Fortune 500 clients such as Disney, BellSouth, Motorola, and Toyota. He also served as a White House Fellow on the President’s staff at the Office of Management and Budget.
Prior to embarking on his business career, Patrick served as a US Army Airborne-Ranger in a variety of positions including Tank Platoon Leader in the Gulf War and Company Commander of a 150-person Armored Cavalry Company.
Patrick has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in Management and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Patrick has lived and worked in Washington D.C., New York, Zurich and London.
Patrick currently volunteers with American Corporate Partners, which is focused on helping Veterans transitioning from the military to the civilian sector. Additionally, Patrick has served as a Mentor at Student Sponsor Partners, an organization targeting at-risk youth, and as a volunteer and educator at Streetwise, teaching job skills to adults.
Rick Parkhill
Rick Parkhill is the founder and Chairman of Poptent. The business concept for Poptent was a result of his many years in the interactive media world and watching his son grow up shooting, editing and producing homemade music videos. Rick recognized early-on that advertisers would have an increasing need for video content and that there was an ever-deepening pool of capable creative talent that was developing outside of agency walls. His vision was to empower that creative community by providing them with real opportunities to demonstrate their skills. Rick gathered friends Neil Perry, Tony Romeo and Richard Bruck to found Poptent in early 2007.
Prior to Poptent, Rick was the founder and CEO of iMedia Communications, the leading information provider and conference producer for interactive media and marketing. iMedia Summits continue to attract leading advertisers, brands, agencies, publishers and vendors throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Rick was a founding executive at Interactive Marketing, Inc. in the mid-’90s and founded Digitrends Magazine and the popular Camp Interactive events. In 1987, Rick converted a small newsletter he had launched for friends and clients into the first magazine for media and marketing executives. InfoText was a pre-internet publication that covered the emerging Audiotext and Videotext industries.
Rick’s fascination with the evolution of media has driven his career and continues to spark his imagination. An avid surfer, skier, boater and recovering tennis player, Rick loves to spend his time on the water and outdoors with family and friends. He serves on the DMG Worldmedia Board of Governors and is active fundraiser and board member for Pipeline to a Cure, the surfers initiative to end Cystic Fibrosis. He lives in Laguna Niguel with his wife Jeanne, daughter Reilly and nearby children, Andrew and Jennifer.
Doug Weaver
Those in the online marketing world know Doug Weaver through many different venues. He’s the author of The Drift, a provocative blog read by more than 6,000 top industry executives; a frequent moderator, host and speaker at iMedia Summit and Ad:tech events; and through both public and private sales workshops he’s trained thousands of interactive salespeople at more than 400 leading companies, including Yahoo!, USA TODAY, CBS Digital Media, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Universal, National Public Radio, ESPN, About.com and The New York Times.
After a 15-year career in print advertising sales with companies like Hearst and Condé Nast, Doug became the advertising director for Wired Magazine in 1994 and sold some of the Web’s first ads on the company’s Hot Wired site. He then served as Vice President of sales for Firefly Network, a pioneering company in personalization, targeting and community. He founded Upstream Group in 1997.
Doug was elected to the Board of Directors for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and managed the development of both the IAB Road Show (the organization’s main presentation to marketers) and the IAB Professional Development Series. He has spoken on internet advertising issues to CIMA (the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association), the Direct Marketing Association, the
Magazine Publishers of America, the Advertising Research Foundation, the Advertising Club of Toronto and other leading organizations on three continents.
In 1999, Doug received the first IAB Service Award for commitment and contribution to the industry, and in 2008 he received the “Old Timer’s” ASPY Award from the Aspen Group, a coalition of digital agency leaders. In 2011 he received the Ad:tech Industry Achievement Award for his career-long contribution to the growth and development of the interactive marketing business. Doug lives and works in Vermont, in sight of historic Lake Champlain and the beautiful Green Mountains, with his wife, Sharon Richards, and daughters Lucy and Madeline.
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS
Paul Bremer, Co-founder
As an accomplished and respected expert on digital advertising, Paul oversees Rhythm’s advertising sales and helps deepen relationships with premium brands on Rhythm’s network. Paul brings 15 successful years of digital advertising sales and management to this position.
Before joining Rhythm, Paul Bremer co-founded Inflection Point Media in 2008. Inflection Point Media helps marketers reach small and medium sized business decision makers.
In addition to a series of management and sales positions with WebMD, Lycos, and The Wall Street Journal, Paul previously directed national sales teams at Internet Broadcasting and with NBCOlympics.com.
At Internet Broadcasting he oversaw sales initiatives across IB’s 80+ TV station partner sites and sales teams in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Leading sales efforts for NBCOlympics.com for the 2004 and 2006 Olympic Games, Paul established relationships with blue chip advertisers that led to record-breaking revenue and first-time profitability for the sites.
Paul is also a co-founding board member of two charities, The Tom Deierlein Foundation that works to improve the lives of Iraqi children and the Rough Riders Foundation that supports better education for underprivileged youth. He earned a B.S. in History and Diplomacy from Georgetown University.
Sean Finnegan, Co-Founder
A digital pioneer and one of the advertising industry’s first interactive media strategists, Sean brings a veteran’s perspective to new opportunities in communications, changed by personal media, mobility and digitized social interaction. A trusted leader for global advertising accounts, Sean has successfully navigated major media evolutions and created sustainable growth for clients, products and agencies. This experience arms Sean with a seasoned point-of-view as the advertising industry re-engineers to address the challenges faced by today’s advertisers, hoping to make sense of the seismic paradigm-shift from national media to a universe of Digital channels.
As a prominent member of digital advertising industry groups such as the AAF and DMG, Sean is a leader that values industry connectivity to build well-rounded and growth-oriented organizations. Leveraging a proven ability to sense and capture opportunity, Sean is assertively forging strategic inroads with the industry’s most influential communications companies as the merging of advertising, entertainment and consumer media bear meaningful opportunities for advertisers in the Digital space. Sean maintains deep connectivity with Silicon Valley, where he continues to be engaged in the start-up and ventures community through his partnership with DMR Partners.
A leader in the digital media space, Sean Finnegan has carved a unique path for brands and marketers in consumer-driven media by maintaining a pure, people-focused approach to advertising. Sean has held digital leadership roles at major agency and media owner organizations. Most recently CEO of IPG’s Geomentum, he drove the company’s hyper-local platform by engineering a full-service agency model to enable top retail brand advertisers to operate from a national to neighborhood level approach. Prior to IPG, Sean served as President, Chief Digital Officer at Starcom MediaVest Group where he drove the network’s digital strategy, developing digital communications products, proprietary tools and technology applications. Sean also directed a worldwide video advertising network as Chief Marketing Officer of Vibrant Media. As a leader in Omnicom Media Group, Sean was Chief Executive Officer of OMG Digital where he led its global management team and developed functional services in digital investment, search, mobile, gaming, futures, analytics and ad operations.
For his outstanding contributions to the industry, Sean has been named an AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement inductee, an Advertising Age Media Maven, a Media All Star for Mediaweek Magazine, a MediaPost All Star, one of min magazine´s 21 Most Intriguing People, and Internationalist Magazine Agency Innovator and OnMedia’s Madison Avenue “IT” List. Sean is also a proud co-founder and board member of the Tom Deierlein Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping needy families and children both nationally and internationally with their most basic living needs including medical care.
Chris Hogan
Chris Hogan is currently the Co-Founder and CRO of Southside Inc. LLC, a Los Angeles and New York City-based advisory firm providing critical counsel and strategic direction to the media, advertising, entertainment and technology industries and to companies and institutional investors that interact with those sectors. Southside’s goal is to deliver measurable results that increase brand and shareholder value.
Earlier in his career, Hogan served as a member of the founding team of Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), the internet travel company acquired by Interactive Corporation (IAC) for $5.1 billion in March 2005. At Expedia, his work included devising and implementing the company’s original media sales products and strategies. Chris previously held various management positions at American Airlines and 121 Media.
He lives with his Wife, two daughters and Dog in Westchester County, New York. When he is not on working or spending time with his family, he works with his wife on the Congo for Women charity.
Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson joined NBC Universal in February, 2007 as Vice President Digital Media Sales and was elevated in early 2010 to Senior Vice President on the heels of 3 years of dramatic revenue growth overseeing the national sales force. Nick has also driven significant organizational change by pivoting the digital sales team out of individual-site silos into an agency-focused consultative sales group focused on selling the entire NBCU Digital Media portfolio consisting of NBC.com, NBCsports.com, AccessHollywood.com, BravoTV.com, Oxygen.com, Syfy.com and USAnetwork.com.
In mid-2010 Nick added responsibility for the Universal Audience Platform — a “first-party” advertising network, that he was instrumental in creating. Nick has been critical to the growth and vitality of the NBCU Digital Media division through steady stewardship of NBCU’s preeminent and engagement-rich digital video platform and through extensions like the UAP to the core digital advertising businesses.
Nick is a Digital pioneer having spent the last 15 years focused on the Digital space in a variety of sales leadership roles at places like Reuters, Revenue Science and CNNSI.com. Prior to joining the Digital revolution, Nick spent seven years on the agency side of the business in New York and Tokyo.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and resides in Madison, NJ with his wife and three children.
John Murphy
John Murphy is Associate Director, Sales Support and Knowledge Management at Parade Publications part of Advance Publications/Conde Nast Media Group. He presently works on initiatives around sales force effectiveness, business intelligence, and sales and marketing knowledge management.
Before Parade, John worked in marketing and business development for Solbright, an online advertising software and consulting company. He started his career with several leading global advertising agencies working in media and account management with clients such as Canon, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Marriott, and Unilever.
He has also served as the Director of In-Kind donations for Habitat for Humanity/NYC, was a former board member of the University of Kansas Alumni NY Metro Chapter, and was on the career development task force for New York University/Stern School of Business.
John received an MBA from New York University/Stern School of Business and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Jack Myers
Jack Myers is a media economist and chairman of Media Advisory Group, which invests in early stage companies that advance and support the media ecosystem and represents management teams in the sale of media companies with value of more than $100 million. Jack speaks internationally on transformative business strategies, and publishes the weekly (subscriber-only) Jack Myers Media Business Report, and Jack Myers Video Media Business Report at www.jackmyers.com. He curates MediaBizBloggers.com, an open thought leadership platform for media, advertising and marketing professionals. Jack is the author of three books on advertising, is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for journalism, won the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, and has been nominated for both an Academy and Emmy Award.
For more than two decades, Jack has been among the media industry’s leading visionaries and economic forecasters. He has advised more than 250 media companies, marketers and agencies on business transformation, revenue-development and organizational best practices. He currently has investments in several companies including Tremor Media, MyYearbook.com, Rally Marketing, Grab Networks, Martini Media, Echo Systems, HeresYourNeighborhood.com, CatalystSF, CLOVR, adGenesis, TRA Global, Marketshare and Simulmedia.
While in college, Jack co-founded the Syracuse New Times. He joined the out-of-home division of Metromedia as a sales executive, moved to ABC-FM Radio as local sales manager and then moved to CBS-Television Stations, where he became Director of Marketing, Business Development and Research. He was an early advocate of investment in cable TV and became EVP Content and Revenue for UTV Cable Network before forming his own business in 1985. Jack serves on the boards of the TD Foundation and John A. Reisenbach Foundation. He founded the Syracuse University Newhouse School Young Professional Advisory Council and the Women in Media Mentoring Initiative.
Mark Naples
Formerly the CMO, Director of Investor Relations, and Privacy Officer for 24/7 Real Media (NASDAQ:TFSM), Mark’s experience in media, marketing and public affairs with firms such as Ogilvy & Mather and Kearns & West has ranged from lobbying for the “Baby Bells” as part of the Telecom Reform Act of 1994 and testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee on Privacy Matters in 2001 to the summer 1996 re-launch of AOL.com after that company’s daylong outage and the re-launch of iCrossing after it had been blacklisted by Google in 2003. Since founding WIT Strategy in October 2002, he has led strategic efforts on behalf of more than 150 companies, including numerous corporate and product launches, complete company repositioning campaigns, and more successful crisis suppressions than anyone else in the business.
A frequent contributor to iMedia Connection, Mark holds a BA in Religion from Haverford College. In addition to his work with TD Foundation, he has been very active with the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, The Sports Challenge Leadership Council, and Greensgrow Farm the largest urban farm in the US.
Gary Strauss
Based in New York City, Gary Strauss joined TechMedia Network in April 2010 as VP of Sales. Gary leads the display advertising monetization efforts and sales strategy for Tech Media, the 2nd largest publisher of original digital content in the technology and news field. Founded in November 2009, Tech Media produces brands such as Top Ten Reviews, Space.com, Laptopmag.com, Live Science, TechNews Daily and many others.
Gary is a 20 year plus veteran of the media industry and has been involved with online media since 1997 when he joined DoubleClick as a Sr. Account Manager. Since that time Gary has been an integral part of several successful digital sales organizations in various leadership positions including Go2Net/Infospace (Director of East Coast Sales), Imaginova (VP Sales) and Director of Online Sales at Rodale and Sporting News.
Gary is married with 2 children and lives in Westchester County. Once a highly touted basketball player he still likes the NY Knicks, is an ardent NY Ranger fan and enjoys golf. He coaches youth basketball and is on the Board of Directors of the Tom Deierlein Foundation.
Thomas J. Deierlein – Co-Founder
Tom is a successful serial entrepreneur who has help found and run early stage companies in media and technology for the past decade holding various C-Level titles. Tom is also a Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, and a retired U.S. Army Major who is an Operation Iraqi Freedom Vet. Graduating from United States Military Academy, West Point in 1989, Tom spent nearly five years in the military first earning his Airborne Ranger qualification and then onto various leadership positions with the Berlin Brigade in the early 90′s. In late 2005, Tom was recalled to active duty serving as a Civil Affairs Officer in East Baghdad. In September of 2006, he was shot by a sniper and critically wounded. After 8 months of intensive care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the VA Polytrauma Rehab Center in Tampa Florida, Tom returned to the business world in June 2007.
Tom earned a Masters of Science in Systems Management from University of Southern California in 1993 and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business in 2000.
Additionally, Tom is a Certified Peer Mentor with Wounded Warrior Project, and mentor with Care Coalition. He coaches and supports other severely wounded and disabled Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) soldiers and their families to assist in the transition to the civilian world and workforce. (http://www.socom.mil/carecoalition). Tom is a founding board of advisors member of Troops First Foundation: Troops First Foundation develops, operates and supports a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life and sports-based initiatives in support of today’s military personnel. http://www.troopsfirstfoundation.org/. His previous volunteer work included StreetWise Partners and Student Sponsor Partners.
