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MANAGEMENT TEAM
Sean Morgan - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Morgan was a founding team member and SVP of Sales at Pinnacor, Inc [NASDAQ: PCOR, formerly ScreamingMedia], a leading provider of information management solutions for the aggregation, distribution and integration of real time business and financial information into websites, intranets, wireless sites and interactive television. Pinnacor was recently sold to Marketwatch, Inc. [NASDAQ: MKTW] for over $100 million. As one of the founders of Pinnacor, Mr. Morgan was responsible for building a 60-person sales and business development organization, and grew monthly revenue from $15,000 to $1.8 million in under 24 months. Mr. Morgan represented the company in front of industry analysts and investors, and helped raise more than $95 million in various funding rounds. Pinnacor debuted on the NASDAQ in August 2000.
Rey Contreras - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Contreras joins Critical Mention from Pennell Venture Partners, where he was responsible for internal operations, screening new business opportunities and structuring new financings. Mr. Contreras led the firm's investment in Critical Mention and worked closely with the management team for over a year before joining. Previously, Mr. Contreras was Senior Associate - Project Development for Poseidon Resources, a private developer and financier of large-scale infrastructure projects. Mr. Contreras has a BA in Economics/Operations Research from Columbia University.
Michael Bermann - Senior Vice President/General Counsel
Bermann rejoined the team as General Counsel of Critical-Media in 2008. Michael had previously worked with Critical Mention crafting our first user agreements and diligently negotiated our first content partner relationships. Prior to joining Critical Mention in 2002, Michael started out his legal career in private practice with with the national law firm of Mintzer, Sarowitz, Zeris, Ledva and Meyers, P.A in Miami, Florida. Upon returning to Florida in 2004, Michael was a senior associate at Silver, Levy, Feldman & Bass, P.A. and head of the litigation team at Haas, Dutton, Lewis, Blackburn & Wainoris, L.P., both in Tampa, Florida Michael received his Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University Law School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and received a dual degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Syracuse University in New York.
Stephen Shannon - Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Shannon was with BurrellesLuce for 17 years and most recently served as Executive Vice President overseeing sales, service, marketing and product development. He began as an account executive and regional sales manager with the company and is credited with more than doubling sales of the Media Contacts service. In the product development arena, Shannon conceived and led the launch of the BurrellesLuce web portal, resulting in a clip revenue increase of 32 percent. He also designed and implemented the iMonitor service, launched in October 2008, and led his team to more than 600 sales of the service in its first 12 months. He is also credited with growing the Media Measurement unit by 10 percent.
JJ Pullaro - Vice President, Client Services
Prior to joining Critical Mention, Mr. Pullaro spent two years at Thomson Financial [NYSE: TOC] where he was responsible for managing a $1.2 million account base, and helped pilot the release of new online research products. Prior to Thomson, Mr. Pullaro spent five years at Pinnacor, Inc [NASDAQ: PCOR, formerly ScreamingMedia], where he served as Director of Sales Operations. He helped co-develop and grow the sales division from a staff of 2 to over 40. Prior to ScreamingMedia, Mr. Pullaro spent five years at PR Newswire Association, Inc., where he served in various editorial and sales capacities, including managing their Electronics Markets division.
James Weir - Vice President, Software Engineering
Prior to joining Critical Mention, Mr. Weir was a professional lecturer at Marist College. During this time he instructed students in various topics of Information Technology and Computer Science at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to academia, Mr. Weir worked at IBM designing CPU logic. He holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
Karol Zapolski - Vice President, Infrastructure & Network Operations
Mr. Zapolski brings to Critical Mention over 11 years of experience in system and network administration as well as software development and design. In 2000 Mr. Zapolski founded Digital Systems in Gdansk, Poland, a company that provided IT support to Polish government agencies, various small- to mid size businesses, Gdansk public hospital and Szczecin Polytechnic University. Prior to 2000 he held IT Specialist positions at Mikrotel LLC, phone systems development company and Sinus Design LLC, designer and producer of large vessels.
Andrew Koeck - Director, Strategic Partnerships
For more than 15 years Koeck has helped technology and service companies achieve stronger revenue streams and improved market share. He has successfully managed corporate turnarounds, mergers and the go-to-market strategies for several new technology hardware and software products. He previously served as the President and VP Partnerships at dna13 Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company and a leader of on-demand software for real-time reputation management; President of Intermate International, a premier U.S. supplier of IBM printing solutions including electronic forms to the industryÕs leading manufacturers; and VP of Sales and Marketing at LCI SMARTpen, a Belgium-based company and award-winning developer of biometric security products.
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