Board of Directors
David Flaschen
David has 20 years of executive experience in the information services industry and is an Operating Partner at Castanea Partners. Prior to this position, David was a Managing Director at Flagship Ventures. Prior to Flagship, he was the President and CEO of Thomson Financial, a billion dollar information services company. David has served as a Director of TripAdvisor (purchased by Interactive Corp, NASDAQ: IACI) and BuyerZone (purchased by Reed Elsevier).
David Andonian
Former CEO of Affinnova, David previously served as President of Corporate Development and President and COO at CMGI, a leading marketing and technology solutions provider. At CMGI, he managed domestic and international operations and was instrumental in leading the company's growth initiatives through business development, M&A, corporate strategy and marketing functions. Prior to CMGI, David held executive positions with PictureTel and IBM.
Advisory Board
Pieter Schiller
Pieter is Partner Emeritus at Advanced Technology Ventures where, for nearly 20 years, he helped develop the firm's health care practice. In that time, Pieter served on 20 boards of directors in fields including health care information, clinical diagnostics, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining ATV in 1986, he spent 25 years with predecessor companies to Honeywell International in finance, business development, strategic planning and operations. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from NYU.
Bob Kvaal
Bob is a co-founder of Knowledge Factory, and has served as Delphi Internet's CFO. As one of his prior entreprenuerial activities, Bob was co-founder and President of SigniCorp, an advanced text-processing firm. He also formed an online service division for Ziff Communications and consulted with many information services industry clients while a member of the senior professional staff at Arthur D. Little. Bob continues to use his entrepreneurial experience to help CityVoter identify new markets and build strategic partnerships.
David Cooperstein
David is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Burst Media, one of the first online ad network and ad management services. Prior to joining Burst Media, David was a founding executive and VP of Content at venture-backed Gather.com. He is a former Vice President and Research Director at Forrester Research and former Chief Operating Officer of Gemini Consulting's C4 Lab. David uses his wealth of market research and management experience to help CityVoter structure its content strategy and advise on marketing issues.
Michael Steib
Michael Steib is the Director of Google TV Ads, an enhanced digital system for buying, selling, measuring and delivering television advertising. Previously, Steib was GM of Strategic Ventures for NBC Universal. In this role, Steib founded and led operations for two NBC Universal digital ventures: nbbc (the National Broadband Company), a marketplace for digital video syndication, and NBC Weather Plus, the first all-digital broadcast television network.