Management
Jim Barnett
CEO and Chairman
Jim co-founded Turn in 2005, bringing his extensive experience in online advertising and search to create a next generation market for online advertising. Most recently, Jim was President of Overture Search, a division of Overture Services, Inc. He joined Overture via its acquisition of AltaVista Company, where he was President and CEO. In this role, he led the company's highly successful turnaround and sale to Overture.
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Jim was also President of MyFamily.com, the parent company of Ancestry.com, and President and CEO of ThirdAge Media, which was acquired by MyFamily.com. Prior to that, Jim was President and CEO of Infogrammes North America, a leading global publisher of video games and entertainment software. For five years, he was also Chairman, President and CEO of Accolade Inc, Infogrammes' predecessor company.
Jim has served on the boards of several public and private companies. He is currently on the boards of Syndero Inc. and ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ VVTV) and was most recently Chairman of SideStep Inc. He is also on the advisory boards of Trusted ID and Cellfire and on the management board of Stanford Graduate School of Business. Jim received a BA, MBA and J.D. from Stanford University.
Dominic Bennett
Vice President of Engineering
Dominic is an expert in data mining, marketing analytics, ad selection, and behavioral targeting in very large database (>40TB) environments. In addition, he brings to Turn established management skills in product design, architecture, development, and QA. Before joining Turn, he served as Vice President, Engineering and Analytics at Claria, where he led engineering teams and was the primary inventor of eight patents in ad optimization, behavioral search, and click-stream analysis.
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Before Claria, Dominic was Group Director, DB Marketing at Wunderman Cato Johnson, where he was responsible for the Sony, Citibank, and Pepsi accounts. Previously, he was Director of Quantitative Analysis at the Orvis Company. Dominic holds a bachelor's degree in Math and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and master's degree in statistics from Yale University.
Glenn Fishback
Vice President of Sales
Responsible for Turn revenue and sales operations, Glenn brings nearly 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the high tech industry, with the past 9 years in online media sales. Glenn is known for building world-class sales organizations as well as being a rainmaker as an individual sales contributor in startups. Prior to joining Turn, Glenn was Vice President of Sales at Coupons Inc., the premier destination site for print-from-the-web coupons for consumer packaged goods companies, where he developed a highly successful online media strategy and scaled sales performance to unprecedented levels.
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Before Coupons Inc., Glenn was the first sales person hired at Claria Corporation, where he held a variety of senior positions and helped develop one of the first online behavioral networks. Glenn spent five years in sales leadership at Claria, where as Vice President of Global Sales he drove significant revenue and market share growth throughout the United States, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Earlier in his career, Glenn held sales positions at Nielsen NetRatings, Echelon, and Dun & Bradstreet. Glenn holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Santa Clara University.
Dennis Jang
Vice President of Finance and Administration
Dennis has nearly 20 years of financial and administrative operations experience at online advertising, e-commerce, biotech, consumer software, PC peripherals, and semi-conductor equipment companies. Dennis specializes in high tech start-ups and played significant roles in the initial public offerings for two of the previous companies for which he worked.
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For six years prior to joining Turn, Dennis was the Senior Director of Finance and Administration and Corporate Controller for Claria Corporation, one of the pioneers in online advertising. Dennis was responsible for designing and implementing the financial and operational infrastructures at Claria, allowing it to achieve exponential growth over five years. Dennis received a bachelor of science degree in finance from San Jose State University.
Xuhui Shao
Chief Technology Officer
Xuhui brings to Turn over 10 years of experience in analytical product development, machine learning methodology, statistical learning theory, advanced experiment design, nonlinear optimization, software engineering, and high performance computation. Prior to joining Turn, Xuhui was the Vice President of Analytics at ID Analytics. At ID Analytics, Xuhui led the teams responsible for developing core technology and advanced analytical solutions for identity fraud.
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For the last ten years, he has been doing research and development in machine learning and computational intelligence in both industry and academia. Prior to ID Analytics, Xuhui was a key member of the Falcon Technology team for payment card fraud detection and a Lead Scientist in the Technology Development Group at HNC Software (now Fair Isaac).
Xuhui is the lead inventor of multiple pending patents and is a recognized expert in the development and application of behavioral targeting design and analysis. He received his bachelor's and master's of science degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Philip Smolin
Vice President of Product and Marketing
Philip has 13 years experience in leading hosted software development, and has specialized in online advertising systems since 1997. With product director positions at MatchLogic, Excite@Home and PayChoice, Philip has developed industry-leading 3rd party ad serving platforms, rich media tools and CPM yield management systems for Internet portals.
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Philip holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University at Buffalo, and an MBA from Columbia University and the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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