Leonard P. Forman joined TechTarget's board of directors in 2007 after retiring as executive vice president and chief financial officer of The New York Times Company.
Previously he had been president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company Magazine Group, and senior vice president of corporate development, new ventures and electronic businesses.
Prior to joining The New York Times Company, Forman worked in television, online services, print media and advertising, including president and chief executive officer of a Nynex/Newsday joint venture. He also held CEO and CFO positions with several media associations and bureaus, and as senior vice president of operations at Telemundo, Inc., a Spanish language television company, where he was responsible for broadcast and network operations and affiliate relations.
Previously, he was director of corporate planning and a chief economist at The New York Times Company, and a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Forman also served as an adjunct professor of economics at Yale University Graduate School of Management and an assistant professor of economics at Fordham University Graduate School of Business. He holds a B.A. degree in economics from Queens College, City University of New York and completed his Ph.D. dissertation in economics at New York University.
In addition to TechTarget, Forman serves as a director of Wolters Kluwer, a leading multinational publisher and information services company serving the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors.
Jay Hoag is a founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading provider of growth capital to premier technology companies. At TCV, Hoag is a member of the leadership team that manages over $3.3 billion in assets. TCV has invested in over 135 companies to achieve over 35 IPOs and 22 strategic sales or mergers.
As a director of TechTarget, Hoag provides strategic guidance and leadership to the company, drawing on his 22 years of experience in the venture capital industry. He has been involved with numerous TCV investments, including investments in Ariba Technologies, Altiris, CacheFlow, C|NET, Expedia, Fandango, Netflix and RealNetworks.
Prior to joining TCV, Hoag was a managing director at Chancellor Capital Management, where he spent more than 12 years as a technology-focused venture capitalist and fund manager. From 1988 to 1994, he grew Chancellor Capital's public technology asset base from $20 million to over $250 million and achieved industry-leading performance. In 1989, he assumed sole responsibility for Chancellor Capital's private technology investments. In that capacity, he invested over $113 million in 30 companies. Fifteen of those companies, including Ascend Communications, CompUSA, Intuit, Macromedia, NETCOM, PictureTel, Pure Software and Sybase, went public during his tenure.
In addition to serving on TechTarget's Board of Directors, Hoag currently sits on the Boards of Altiris, eLoyalty, Fandango, InPhonic and NetFlix. Mr. Hoag is also on the Advisory Board of Champion Ventures and the Investment Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan. Hoag received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Bruce Levenson is the Founder of United Communications Group (UCG), one of the largest privately held business information companies in the United States. UCG has more than 700 employees nationwide and offices in Maryland, Boston, New Jersey and Maine. Mr. Levenson directs the firm's acquisition efforts, having acquired more than 50 companies including a division of McGraw Hill, a division of Bell Canada and one public company.
Mr. Levenson is a principal of Atlanta Spirit LLC, which is the majority owner of the NBA Atlanta Hawks franchise and the NHL Atlanta Thrashers franchise. Atlanta Spirit LLC also owns the operating rights to the Philips Arena, the major sports and entertainment venue in Atlanta. These assets were purchased from Turner Broadcasting System in September 2003 as part of Time Warner's divestiture of non-strategic business assets.
Mr. Levenson is a member of the Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association (NEPA) Hall of Fame and has served on the Boards of Newsletter Association of America, I Have a Dream Foundation and Hoop Dreams Foundation. Mr. Levenson holds a B.A. in political science from Washington University and a law degree from American University.
Roger Marino is a co-Founder and former President of EMC Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise information storage systems, software, networks and services, with more than $4.44 billion in annual revenues and 17,000 employees worldwide. Marino was instrumental in EMC's growth, taking it from start-up to its position as a dominant force in the technology industry.
Marino has also pursued a number of business ventures related to his lifelong interests in technology, sports and theater. He is the former owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team and is the principal owner of the Worcester Ice Cats, a professional minor-league hockey team. As the head of Revere Pictures, Marino has served as the executive producer of a number of commercially released films. He is the executive producer of the Broadway revival of Gypsy, currently enjoying a successful run in New York.
Marino graduated from Northeastern University and sits on the University's Board of Trustees.
Alan G. Spoon is a managing general partner of Polaris Venture Partners in its Boston office. He joined Polaris in May 2000 and has been part the firm since 1996 as an early advisor and initial investor. He focuses on investments in information technology, with emphasis on revenue-stage companies, digital media, and e-commerce. Spoon served as President of The Washington Post Company from 1993 to 2000. He was the company's Chief Operating Officer and was named a Director in 1991.
Spoon has more than 20 years of operating executive and investment experience. During his 18-year tenure with The Washington Post Company, he served as president, chief operating officer, board member, chief financial officer, president of Newsweek, head of newspaper marketing and head of corporate business development. The Washington Post Company has significant activities in newspapers, magazines, television, cable and educational markets (Kaplan), and Spoon was responsible for early stage technology investments in cellular, distance learning and educational software and information services (including Washingtonpost.com, BrassRing, Classified Ventures, WebTV and Exchange.com). Prior to The Washington Post, Spoon was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group, an international management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy.
In addition to TechTarget, Spoon represents Polaris as a director of ARPU, Art.com, LegalZoom, LRN, Phreesia, Silicon Optix, Inc., The HealthCentral Network, and AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (Weatherbug). Alan led Polaris' investment in Matrics, Inc. (RFID) which was sold to Symbol Technologies. Alan recently served as director at Cushcraft Corporation (wireless antennae), which was recently sold to Laird Technologies. Outside Board seats include Danaher Corporation, Getty Images, and InterActiveCorp (formerly USA Interactive, Inc). Spoon's not-for-profit activities include being a member of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation.
Spoon's prior business board service included American Management Systems, Inc., Human Genome Sciences, Inc., International Data Group (IDG) and Riggs National Bank. Prior not-for-profit board service included WETA (Washington, DC public television and radio) and the Norwood School (Bethesda, MD), where he served as chairman.
Spoon is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to his bachelor's degree, he earned an M.S. at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Greg Strakosch, Co-Founder and CEO, has led the company to its leadership position as the fastest-growing IT media company.
Since its launch in August 1999, Strakosch has grown TechTarget from an online media company to a fully diversified IT media and events company. The company has approximately 400+ employees in Needham, MA, San Francisco and New York.
A host of organizations has recognized TechTarget's success and the innovation and leadership that Strakosch has brought to bear. In 2005
Media Business named Strakosch a Top Innovator in Business Publishing
Strakosch was named to the Folio: 40, a list of "industry innovators with impact"
BtoB named TechTarget to its annual list of the most powerful business-to-business advertising venues for the fifth consecutive year
The Boston Business Journal named TechTarget to its list of the Largest Private Companies, after ranking the company for two years running in the top ten of its list of the fastest-growing private companies in Massachusetts.
The BBJ selected TechTarget as one of the fifty "Best Places to Work" in Massachusetts
Other notable accolades include:
In 2004, TechTarget earned the #13 spot on the Entrepreneur/D&B "Hot 100" list of the fastest growing entrepreneurial companies in the US
TechTarget was named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in 2004
In 2003, Strakosch received the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year® Award, having been selected as a Finalist the year before
In 2001, TechTarget was selected as the "Hottest Start Up" by MIMC (now MITX), the association representing interactive technology companies in the second-largest market in the country
Prior to founding TechTarget, Strakosch was President of the Technology Division of UCG, a leading business-to-business information provider, where he grew the business more than 15-fold in six years through internal growth, new product development and acquisitions. Strakosch joined UCG in 1992 when the company acquired Reliability Ratings, a successful IT publishing company he founded in 1989. Before Reliability Ratings, Strakosch spent six years in senior sales and marketing positions at EMC Corporation, which he joined as the company's 29th employee.
Strakosch has a BA from Boston College. Chairman of the Board
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