Board of Directors

Josh Kopelman

Josh is currently Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund. A serial entrepreneur and investor who has been an active leader in the Internet industry since its commercialization, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation in 1992 while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The company went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1996.

Josh left Infonautics to found Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 and Josh remained with eBay for three years, growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales. In early 2004 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec.

Prior to forming First Round Capital, Josh served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Comcast Interactive Capital, a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation. Josh is an inventor on eight U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. He is often quoted in industry trade journals and national newspapers, and is a frequent speaker at industry-wide conferences on entrepreneurship, Internet marketing and the future of Internet services.

Lucinda Holt

Lucinda is an accomplished technology CEO who has led a number of successful companies. She is currently CEO of ClickEquations, a leading provider of paid search. In 2004, Lucinda co-founded and led TurnTide, an anti-spam technology company, which was acquired by Symantec for $28 million.

Prior to founding TurnTide, Lucinda was President & CEO of Destiny WebSolutions, a venture-backed Inc. 500 winner that provided Internet strategy and implementation consulting to large financial institutions. While growing Destiny from $250,000 to $25 million in revenue Lucinda received many honors. She was named America’s 17th Most Influential Consultant by Consulting Magazine, won the Eastern Technology Council’s Enterprise Award for CEO of the Year, and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Philadelphia.

In addition to her CEO roles, Lucinda has been an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at First Round Capital and has held management positions at Infonautics, Automated Call Processing, SEI Investments, and American Express. She graduated cum laude from University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from the Wharton School in Entrepreneurial Management.

Strategic Advisory Board

Bryan Eisenberg

Bryan is a widely followed thought leader in online marketing and the Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author of “Call to Action,” “Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?” and “Always Be Testing.” As a professional marketing speaker, Bryan has keynoted corporate events and conferences such as Search Engine Strategies, Shop.org, Direct Marketing Association, MarketingSherpa, E-consultancy, Webcom, SEM Konferansen Norway and the Canadian Marketing Association.

Bryan is also the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Web Analytics Association and serves as an advisory board member of Search Engine Strategies, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and several venture capital backed startup companies. He is on the board of trustees of the Direct Marketing Education Foundation.

Bryan was recently recognized by eConsultancy members as one of the top 10 User Experience Gurus and and he was selected as one of the inaugural iMedia Top 25 Marketers. You can read Bryan’s blog at www.bryaneisenberg.com and follow him on Twitter as @TheGrok. To learn more about what Bryan thinks of Monetate, watch this YouTube video.

Kevin Ertell

Kevin has been described by his peers in the retail industry as both “an extraordinary thought leader in the online retail space” and “a cross-channel retail visionary with the leadership skills to make his vision a reality.”

Kevin has more than 25 years of experience in retail and more than 10 years of senior management experience with online commerce. For example, as Senior Vice President of E-Business at Borders he served as the primary leadership and planning force of e-business strategies for Borders.com. Kevin championed an innovative and award-winning cross-channel retailing strategy and led the 2008 relaunch of Borders.com as an e-commerce site with cutting-edge interactive features like its Magic Shelf virtual bookshelf. (Kevin also led the team that built Borders Rewards, one of world’s largest specialty retail loyalty programs.)

Today, as Vice President of Retail Strategy at ForeSee Results, Kevin works with product, delivery, and marketing teams to ensure that ForeSee Results continues to provide best-in-class solutions that bring innovation and operational excellence to the retail industry. Kevin’s widely-read blog is called “Retail: Shaken Not Stirred.” You can follow Kevin on Twitter as KevinErtell. To hear more about what Kevin thinks of Monetate, watch this YouTube video.