Strreet Fight - INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF HYPERLOCAL: Thiel has some big shoes to fill.
Openings & New Hires at Kenshoo, GateHouse, Local Corp and Search Influence
17 January 2014 by Kelly Benish
Every two weeks, Search Influence’s Kelly Benish — who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal — covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. (Plus, scroll down for jobs on offer now.)
Fred Thiel – Local Corp.
Local Corp, the Irvine-based online advertising technology company recently chose Fred Thiel as their new board of directors chairman. Thiel replaces Heath Clarke, former CEO and chairman, who abruptly left Local last week due to personal reasons. Clarke founded Local Corp. in 1999 to connect businesses to consumers with their suite of advertising products. I’m sad to see Heath leave, but excited to see where he decides to go. Meanwhile, Thiel has some big shoes to fill.
Und bei Linkedin kann man unter anderem lesen:
Fred Thiel is an independent board member/operating partner/senior advisor to private equity and venture capital firms, their portfolio companies, and public and private technology companies. He also sits on a number of public and private corporate boards and mentors management teams of promising new companies.
He provides deep technology industry expertise, strategic advice on generating growth and shareholder value, acquisition strategy development and execution, and exit strategy development and execution.
Fred has over 25 years operating experience leading companies in the technology, data communications, Internet, M2M, automation, Big Data, digital media and software industries. He has repeatedly driven rapid growth and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value.
As a CEO, Fred led companies through rapid growth to IPO, repositioned companies for high value exits to strategic and financial acquirers, led M&A and roll-up strategies, as well as successfully executed corporate turn-arounds.
For the past eight years Fred has worked with private equity and venture capital firms in the roles of managing partner of the firm and independent operating partner/senior advisor to build and execute investment theses, source and execute acquisitions, build management teams and drive growth in both revenues and share holder value.
Fred's deep industry expertise includes IoT (Internet of Things), M2M (machine to machine communications), Big Data software, enterprise software, wired and wireless data networking and communications, data storage, industrial automation, internet media, internet marketing and systems integration.
Fred attended the Stockholm School of Economics, completed executive classes at Harvard Business School and is fluent in English, Spanish, Swedish and French.
Fred is a current member of WPO and former chapter chairman of the YPO California Coast chapter. Less
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