Management and Board
- Tim Jenkins, CEO
- Ray Colwell, Chief Revenue Officer
- Prakash Chandra, Vice President of Engineering
- Michelle Estabrook, Vice President of Ad Operations
- Ed Koenig, Vice President of Ad Operations
- Brian Slitt, Vice President of Business Development
- Tom Cox, Board Member
- Paul Matteucci, Board Member
- Stuart Nagae, Board Member
- Paul Sestili, Board Member
Tim Jenkins
CEO
Tim is the CEO of 4INFO and a seasoned Silicon Valley veteran with more than 25 years in senior operational and executive roles at several tech companies including Apple and Stratacom (acquired by Cisco). At Apple, Tim was responsible for developing the education business division in Europe. Employing a unique channel and product strategy he helped this division grow to over $500M in annual revenue. While at Stratacom he was a key player in their global expansion entering 11 new major geographies in Europe and Asia as Stratacom grew to over $250M in revenue. Tim was also the CEO of Simpata, a SaaS based HR and benefits platform licensed to major medical carriers. The company’s unique business model allowed carriers to direct market to employees online using proprietary profiling techniques. In 1995, Tim founded Creative Wonders, a joint venture between Electronic Arts and Cap/Cities ABC. Creative Wonders scaled from nothing to $30M in revenue and profitability in less than 3 years and was sold to The Learning Company/Mattel.
Armed with extensive experience in developing profitable strategies and scaling companies, Tim will drive the expansion of 4INFO in the rapidly growing mobile market within the US and globally.
Tim graduated magna cum laude from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Business and Finance.
Ray Colwell
Chief Revenue Officer
As Chief Revenue Officer at 4INFO, Ray is responsible for the company's revenue and growth strategy across brand and performance media, channel partnerships, ad operations, and agency relationships. Ray most recently served as vice president of national and direct sales at Collective, a leading provider of media and technology solutions for display and video advertising. Prior to Collective, Ray was vice president of Transpera, where he was responsible for defining the company's advertising model and driving strategic and revenue objectives. As senior vice president of Third Screen Media, he was part of the executive management team which successfully built the TSM Network into the largest mobile internet advertising network in the country and later, executed the sale of the company and integration into AOL. Colwell has also held various sales positions at Lycos including director of sales and director of vertical sales, telesales and market development. Additional experience includes executive management and sales positions with internet marketing and publishing companies Engage Technologies, Adsmart and Pointcast. Colwell's earlier experience includes sales and marketing positions at Ziff-Davis. Colwell began his career at Thomson Financial, where he was southwest regional sales manager. Colwell has a Bachelor of Science in small business management from the University of Vermont.
Prakash Chandra
Vice President of Engineering
As the Vice President of Engineering, Prakash leads the Software Engineering, Systems Operations and Program Management teams for AdHaven, 4INFO's mobile advertising platform, as well as 4INFO's SMS Publishing Platform. Prakash started his career as a Software Engineer at SDRC and served in various engineering and leadership roles in Ideas/NX CAD, Annotation, Drafting and Open I-deas teams. Prakash joined AOL in 2006 and until recently, he led the AdLearn/R&D Technology teams at AOL Advertising.Com Group. As part of AOL's advanced research team in Silicon Valley, Prakash was a key contributor to the product and technology vision for company's premiere AdLearn 5 program and led the software engineering teams for its development from early prototypes to final production deployment. The AdLearn 5 infrastructure vastly improved AOL's ability to scale the optimization platform for the ad.com network and further strengthens its position as having one of the most advanced optimization systems in online advertising business.
Prakash holds B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India and MS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Michelle Estabrook
Vice President of Ad Operations
As Vice President of Ad Operations, Michelle is responsible for driving deployment of 4INFO advertising and technology on behalf of clients. Michelle has worked in digital media delivery for over ten years, most recently at Transpera, where she managed the technical client engineering team and oversaw the implementation, delivery and reconciliation of mobile ad campaigns. During her time at Transpera, she led the integration with Tremor Media ad operations after Tremor Media acquired Transpera. Prior to Transpera, Michelle managed advertising operations at Third Screen Media and Yahoo!. Michelle has a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of New Hampshire.
Ed Koenig
Vice President of Finance and Human Resources
As Vice President for Finance and Human Resources, Ed oversees financial and administrative matters at 4INFO. He is responsible for the company's accounting, investments, financial reporting, payroll, human resource services, purchasing, and risk management. Ed's comprehensive business perspective was developed over three decades of serving both public and closely-held businesses. Prior to joining the company, he served as a consultant and assistant controller for Pandora Media. Ed began his career with Arthur Andersen & Co., and has served in various executive positions including Corporate Controller at Purple Communications, Chief Financial Officer at IntelliTools and Controller at Broderbund Software.
Ed graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Accounting, and has an MBA in Finance from the University of Denver. He also is a licensed CPA (inactive).
Brian Slitt
Vice President of Business Development
As Vice President of Business Development at 4INFO, Brian is responsible for publisher, data, and channel partner relationships. Brian most recently served as Director of Advertising for SkyGrid, leading partnerships around mobile and social real-time media opportunities across PC, Smartphones, Tablets, and Connected TV's. Prior to SkyGrid, Brian was Director of Sales at JiWire where he managed a team and built out the sales strategy on the East coast around reaching the on-the-go mobile audience via Wi-Fi and mobile applications . As Director of Sales at Third Screen Media, he was a senior sales team member selling first adopter mobile on-deck media with Verizon Wireless and on the TSM Network and was part of the sale of the company and integration into AOL and later re-named Platform-A. At AOL/Platform-A, Brian was a mobile product subject matter expert tasked with evangelizing present and future mobile advertising opportunities internally throughout the organization and externally to brand marketers. Brian started his digital experience at Yahoo! where he was part of the Agency/Brand media team and started his career in consulting roles in the legal, finance, and telecom sectors.
Brian has a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Connecticut College.
Tom Cox
Board Member
In October 2011, Tom Cox was named Vice President of Corporate Development at Gannett Co., Inc. He is responsible for the company's mergers and acquisitions, as well as investment activities. Cox joins Gannett from MySpace where he was senior vice president/head of business development, leading Myspace business development activities as well as managing product and engineering teams launch and optimize new revenue and distribution opportunities. Prior to joining Myspace, Cox was principal and co-founder of Stratique Partners, LLC, an executive level consulting firm specializing in supporting clients launch new products and businesses. Before Stratique Partners, he led business development efforts at AOL as vice president of business development and earlier served as director of strategic transactions and corporate development as well as director of business strategy and operations. Early in his career, Cox was instrumental in the initial conception and led revenue channel development for a leading B2B marketplace start-up in the procurement industry. He started his career in the investment banking and interactive divisions at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. is a graduate of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA and holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. He resides in Potomac, MD with his wife and son.
Paul Matteucci
Board Member
At USVP, Paul has led or co-led investments in 3Ware (sold to AMCC), Factery, Total Beauty, Trovix (sold to Monster), and others. He has also served on the board of Homestead (sold to Intuit) and was an Angel Investor in Fra' Mani, a sustainable food producer. During his early tenure at USVP, Paul served as interim CEO of several of the firm's portfolio companies. "We saved some and we closed some but, as a firm, we are always willing to do the heavy lifting to make our companies successful." Prior to USVP, Paul was CEO of HearMe, taking that company public in 1998. His two decades of operating experience include eight years with Adaptec, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the SCSI host adapter pision leading the business to over a quarter billion in revenues, before turning it over to team he hired and mentored. Upon leaving Adaptec, Paul served as a Resident Entrepreneur for Institutional Venture Partners in 1995 and was an advisor to Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures in the 1990s. Paul earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific. He serves as a trustee of the World's Affairs Council and is a board member of the University of the Pacific's School of International Studies and of the Business School at Montana State University in Bozeman. He is a frequent lecturer at business schools, including Notre Dame, Montana State and U.C. Davis.
Board Member
Stuart Nagae is an associate director in the venture capital investment effort for Vulcan Capital. His investment focus areas include Web services, semantic Web, embedded networks and cable technologies. During his tenure with Vulcan, Mr. Nagae has worked extensively with key Vulcan assets, including Charter Communications, Digeo, Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Seattle Seahawks. He currently sits on the board of directors of KEXP 90.3FM Seattle. Prior to Vulcan, Mr. Nagae worked in the technology investment banking group at JP Morgan H&Q, where he concentrated on the enterprise software sector. He also spent time with Itochu Corporation in Tokyo, a leading Japanese Sogo Sosha. Mr. Nagae received his BA in international relations from Stanford University.
Board Member
For the past five years, Mr. Sestili has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for originating and managing the firm’s venture equity portfolios. Prior to that, Mr. Sestili spent five years with APV Technology Partners, a venture capital firm. Prior to APV, he co-managed Chevron Corporation’s first venture fund. Mr. Sestili has founded two start-up companies and is a recovering engineer, having spent the first six years of his career in technology development.