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TheLadders.com Management Team

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  Marc Cenedella

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  Alexandre Douzet

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  Rick Eaton

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  Robert Turtledove

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  David F. Carvajal

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  Alain Benzaken

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  Stuart Kerr

  
  
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  Andrew Koch

TheLadders.com Board of Directors

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  Marc Cenedella

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  Nicholas F. Beim

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  Brian Swette

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  Andrew J. Kaslow

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  Robert Chefitz

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  Alexandre Douzet

TheLadders.com Management Team

Marc Cenedella is the Founder of TheLadders.com, the #1 source for $100k+ jobs in the world.

Marc started TheLadders.com in July of 2003 to solve a puzzling gap in the world of online recruitment and high-end employment. As the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations at HotJobs.com, Marc saw that, while large job boards worked well for entry and mid-level candidates, high-level job searches were not being conducted efficiently online. Job seekers were frustrated, while recruiters often elected not to post their executive opportunities online at all.

Marc’s solution to this dilemma was a reverse business model that catered to the high-end job seeker. After orchestrating the $436 million sale of HotJobs.com to Yahoo!, Marc started SalesLadder.com, the first in the family of industry-focused websites exclusive to the $100k+ job market. The site was immediately embraced and appreciated by job seekers and recruiters alike for its unique approach and laser focus.

Today, TheLadders.com posts over 80,000 new jobs a week through eight specially-targeted sites geared to experienced industry professionals and the recruiters and employers looking to hire them.

Prior to founding TheLadders.com and his role as HotJobs.com, Marc was an Associate Vice President at The Riverside Company, a New York-based private equity firm. Earlier in his career, he founded, grew and then sold an international trading company focused on the export of US-made pet food to Japan. From that experience, he gained a great appreciation for Japan’s emphasis on superior customer service — learning that he’s now applied to TheLadders.com. TheLadders.com has become a model for great service, both online and off.

Marc holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He earned his B.A. in political science at Yale.

Alexandre Douzet is Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and General Manager for TheLadders.com Europe. In this role, he is in charge of strategy, marketing, sales, product development and other business relationships for the UK and Continental Europe, as well as the fastest-growing resume service business line in the US.

For the first three and half years in the life of TheLadders.com, Alex was the founding VP Marketing before moving to his role as the EVP & GM Europe. As the head of marketing, he was in charge of all marketing and branding functions, marketing research, public relations efforts, and reporting and data-mining activities. Douzet built TheLadders.com U.S. subscription base from zero to more than 1.3 millions members in just three years. He is widely regarded as one of the top interactive and direct marketers in the world.

Prior to TheLadders.com, Douzet was Director of Online Marketing at HotJobs.com where he led the job seeker acquisition effort and helped improve site performance. Before joining HotJobs.com, Douzet worked at BMG Direct, the world's largest music club, where he managed the marketing, planning and analysis group for the pop, jazz and classical music clubs. There, he helped acquire 10 million new members each year.

Douzet also has experience in the catalog, fund raising and financial services industries. He was an instructor of Direct Marketing, Financial Planning and Analysis at New York University, and was a Marketing Analyst for Air France.

Douzet holds an MBA from INSEAD; a Master's in Direct Marketing from New York University, where he received the "Lester Wunderman" Award; and a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the University of Lyon III in France. He is fluent in French and English, and is conversational in Spanish.

Research Paper authored by Alex Douzet:
An Investigation of Pay Per Click Search Engine Advertising: Modeling the PPC Paradigm to Lower Cost per Action

Rick Eaton, Chief Financial Officer, joined TheLadders.com to oversee TheLadders.com's finance and administrative functions. In this position, he will also work with TheLadders.com management team to help lead the company's ongoing global expansion.

A veteran financial manager, Eaton brings 25 years of experience with fast-growing technology companies to TheLadders.com. He has previously held positions with highly successful tech firms such as Quigo Technologies, which was acquired by Time Warner's AOL unit in December 2007, and Juno Online Services, which merged with Netzero, Inc. in 2001 to form United Online, Inc.

Rick was Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at Quigo Technologies, overseeing its fundraising, and building its financial, legal, human resources and administrative systems. Prior to that, as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Juno Online services, he created its financial systems and managed its initial public offering and other fundraising activities.

Rick's career began with business-to-business software companies, some of which included Metaserver, Inc., Datalogix International, Inc. and J.D. Edwards & Co., Inc.

Eaton graduated summa cum laude from Pace University, with an MBA/BBA in public accounting. He is a member of the Connecticut Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Robert Turtledove is Chief Marketing Officer for TheLadders.com. In this role, he uses 24 years of consumer marketing and strategy experience to lead the company's brand and business expansion in the US. His role also strongly supports new business development, including the launch of TheLadders.com Europe, the RecruitLadder Premium enterprise product, and a forthcoming $200k market brand extension.

Most recently, Turtledove served as Chief Concept Officer at MetroMedia Restaurant Group, a $1.2 billion chain of 800 US and international restaurants. During his time at MetroMedia, he engineered several sales turnarounds across the brands, strengthened brand and marketing propositions, upgraded food quality and menu innovation, and conceived a record-breaking new asset prototype. Turtledove joined MetroMedia in 2003 from LiveAdvice, an internet-based information service (acquired by Ingenio), where he was Chief Marketing Officer.

From 1987 to 2000, he enjoyed a successful tenure with PepsiCo and Yum Brands and their associated Advertising Agencies, including stints as Vice President of Marketing for Pizza Hut International, and VP Marketing Pizza Hut USA. Turtledove also led a variety of Agency marketing initiatives for Pepsi Cola, Mountain Dew, Frito Lay, Tostitos and Lay's brands.

Turtledove was born and raised in Zimbabwe and educated under their British public school system. He has a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

David F. Carvajal is Vice President of People at TheLadders.com where he oversees all of the company's people initiatives. Focused on attracting, selecting, retaining and developing TheLadders.com People, Carvajal has played a critical role in leading the company through its high growth. His experience in recruitment, human resources, and executive leadership has also helped the company forge close relationships with many of the 40,000+ HR professionals and recruitment strategic partners at some of the nation's top employers and recruiting firms.

Carvajal joined TheLadders.com from The Carley Group, LLC, a real estate investment and development company in Basking Ridge, New Jersey where he was President. Prior to that, he was SVP & General Manager of HotJobs.com's AgencyExchange, the online marketplace focused on staffing and search professionals. Having joined HotJobs.com as a Co-founder in 1997, his initial post was Vice President, Human Resources. Before joining HotJobs.com, Carvajal was a Senior Executive Search Professional at Otec.com LTD, a New York-based executive search firm.

Carvajal began his career at The Prudential Insurance Company of America-Global Funding group as a Financial Analyst where he worked on interest rate swaps, derivatives and risk management strategies to hedge the financial risk of different business units under The Prudential umbrella. He graduated cum laude from Clemson University with a B.A. in International Trade and is fluent in French and Spanish. He is a graduate of Executive Education and Management programs from The Wharton School and Harvard Business School.

Alain Benzaken is Vice President of Technology and Customer Care for TheLadders.com. He has extensive experience in online consumer website technologies, most notably in leading large web development teams and building highly scalable systems. Benzaken also oversees the company's Customer Care team which consists primarily of TheLadders.com customer service. Prior to TheLadders.com, Benzaken was CTO at Ground Travel Technology Team, Inc. (GT3) where he led efforts to build a national ground transportation reservations system.

From 1998 to 2002, Benzaken was an executive at Priceline.com, serving as Vice President, Development of International Systems, where he launched e-commerce travel products in Europe and Asia. He was also the architect of Priceline.com's customer systems, and was at the company from its early years through its period of rapid growth.

Previously, Benzaken spent eleven years on the Web frontier at Prodigy Services Corporation, where he was a developer of the company's proprietary Web browser and editorial tools.

Benzaken has an M.S. in physics from Yale University and a B.A. in physics from Columbia College. He is fluent in French and English.

Stuart Kerr is Vice President of Enterprise Business for TheLadders.com. Stuart brings extensive experience in sales and new market penetration to lead TheLadders.com's cutting edge enterprise business in support of professional recruiters.

Prior to joining TheLadders.com, Stuart was the President of ObjectStar International, LTD, an integration software firm. There he doubled corporate earnings by recruiting a new executive team, effectively leading a complete company turn-around. Kerr is an expert in growing business at all levels, from start-ups to established industries, and specializes in managing and advancing technologically innovative organizations.

Kerr has 18 years of experience in executive management positions at companies like Vitria Technology, Apple's NeXT Software, Inc., and Oracle Corporation. He began his career in sales at IBM.

Kerr holds an MBA with Honors from Northwestern University and a B.S. from Washington University School of Business.

Since co-founding TheLadders.com with Marc Cenedella and Alexandre Douzet, Andrew Koch has held three roles at the company. He was our first Director of Community, where he built the team, processes and structures to manage our job content and provide excellent customer service. In his next role as our first Director of Product Management, Andrew established standards for product requirements, helped create processes for project pipeline management, facilitated our resource allocation decisions and defined much of the website as it exists today. Most recently, in his strategic planning role, he is working closely with Founder, President and CEO, Marc Cenedella, on planning for the company as a whole and working to ensure the various business units within the company complement each other and contribute to a healthy Job Seeker-Recruiter ecosystem.

Before joining TheLadders.com, Koch was a Product Manager at Yahoo! HotJobs, focusing on the job seeker functionality. Prior to his role in product management at HotJobs, he served there as Online Marketing Manager, driving acquisition of new job seekers.

Koch holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

TheLadders.com Board of Directors

Marc Cenedella is the Founder of TheLadders.com, the #1 source for $100k+ jobs in the world.

Marc started TheLadders.com in July of 2003 to solve a puzzling gap in the world of online recruitment and high-end employment. As the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations at HotJobs.com, Marc saw that, while large job boards worked well for entry and mid-level candidates, high-level job searches were not being conducted efficiently online. Job seekers were frustrated, while recruiters often elected not to post their executive opportunities online at all.

Marc’s solution to this dilemma was a reverse business model that catered to the high-end job seeker. After orchestrating the $436 million sale of HotJobs.com to Yahoo!, Marc started SalesLadder.com, the first in the family of industry-focused websites exclusive to the $100k+ job market. The site was immediately embraced and appreciated by job seekers and recruiters alike for its unique approach and laser focus.

Today, TheLadders.com posts over 80,000 new jobs a week through eight specially-targeted sites geared to experienced industry professionals and the recruiters and employers looking to hire them.

Prior to founding TheLadders.com and his role as HotJobs.com, Marc was an Associate Vice President at The Riverside Company, a New York-based private equity firm. Earlier in his career, he founded, grew and then sold an international trading company focused on the export of US-made pet food to Japan. From that experience, he gained a great appreciation for Japan’s emphasis on superior customer service — learning that he’s now applied to TheLadders.com. TheLadders.com has become a model for great service, both online and off.

Marc holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He earned his B.A. in political science at Yale.

Nick Beim is a General Partner at Matrix Partners, one of the most respected venture capital firms in the United States. His work at Matrix focuses primary on Internet and software companies. Beim also serves on the boards of Gilt Groupe, Care.com, OATSystems, and Mazu Networks. His previous investments include JBoss. Prior to Matrix, Nick advised a variety of technology companies on strategic, operational and financial issues at McKinsey & Co and Goldman, Sachs.

Beim graduated from Stanford University and holds an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Nick also serves on the board of Endeavor, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Formerly eBay's Chief Operating Officer, Brian Swette oversaw that company's international expansion, marketing and customer support that made eBay the most accessible and successful e-commerce site on the Internet. He was instrumental in expanding eBay into new product categories, such as used cars, and he improved the consumer interface, creating features like "Buy It Now," which allows consumers to buy auction items at a set price.

Prior to joining eBay, Swette was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the Pepsi-Cola Company. During his 17-year tenure, he was responsible for the worldwide marketing and advertising efforts for all Pepsi-Cola brands, and brought Lipton Iced Tea®, Aquafina® and the Starbucks Frappuccino® coffee drink to the Pepsi network. Additionally, he oversaw business strategy, brand architecture and new product activity, and helped introduce popular advertising campaigns, including the "Generation Next" equity. He also directed the marketing of Mountain Dew®, making it the fastest-growing beverage with $4 billion in sales.

Previously, Swette worked as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Arizona State University.

Since joining TheLadders.com Board of Directors in 2005, Andrew J. Kaslow was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer at American International Group (AIG). Prior to that, Kaslow was a Managing Partner of the QuanStar Group, a strategic management and organizational-effectiveness consultancy that is geared toward high-growth companies. Earlier, he was Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Vivendi Universal (Paris Bourse: EX FP; NYSE: V) in Paris, where he was responsible for all aspects of global HR for the company's 400,000 employees, and supported the company's restructuring efforts.

Kaslow joined Vivendi from Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), where he was Senior Vice President, People Development. In that capacity, he led all aspects of human resources across Time Warner for its 91,000 employees, including leadership and organization, staffing, employee and labor relations, and career development. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Time Warner and helped meld divergent companies into the combined AOL Time Warner entity. He has also held executive HR positions at Becton, Dickinson and Co., PepsiCo, KFC International and TRW.

Kaslow holds Master's and Doctorate degrees in behavioral sciences from Columbia University and is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Robert Chefitz has over twenty five years in the venture capital industry, and most recently has launched Egis Capital Partners, a private equity fund focused on the security industry. He has had extensive experience in all aspects of private equity from seed investments to leveraged buyouts. Mr. Chefitz started his career at Golder Thoma where he was responsible for a wide range of investments including PageNet and Cellular Network Partners. Mr. Chefitz then went on to Apax Partners where, in his fifteen year tenure, he led some of their most successful investments including Office Depot and Protection One. While at Apax, Mr. Chefitz was involved in raising, investing and managing several funds totaling $2.5 billion dollars.

For the last five years, Mr. Chefitz has been involved in the formation and investing of the NJTC Venture Fund SBIC. This is an early-stage technology fund investing in broad range of industries. Mr. Chefitz was also a seed stage investor in TheLadders.com and currently sits on several public and private company boards. He holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Alexandre Douzet is Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and General Manager for TheLadders.com Europe. In this role, he is in charge of strategy, marketing, sales, product development and other business relationships for the UK and Continental Europe, as well as the fastest-growing resume service business line in the US.

For the first three and half years in the life of TheLadders.com, Alex was the founding VP Marketing before moving to his role as the EVP & GM Europe. As the head of marketing, he was in charge of all marketing and branding functions, marketing research, public relations efforts, and reporting and data-mining activities. Douzet built TheLadders.com U.S. subscription base from zero to more than 1.3 millions members in just three years. He is widely regarded as one of the top interactive and direct marketers in the world.

Prior to TheLadders.com, Douzet was Director of Online Marketing at HotJobs.com where he led the job seeker acquisition effort and helped improve site performance. Before joining HotJobs.com, Douzet worked at BMG Direct, the world's largest music club, where he managed the marketing, planning and analysis group for the pop, jazz andclassical music clubs. There, he helped acquire 10 million new members each year.

Douzet also has experience in the catalog, fund raising and financial services industries. He was an instructor of Direct Marketing, Financial Planning and Analysis at New York University, and was a Marketing Analyst for Air France.

Douzet holds an MBA from INSEAD; a Master's in Direct Marketing from New York University, where he received the "Lester Wunderman" Award; and a bachelor's in business administration from the University of Lyon in France. He is fluent in French and English, and is conversational in Spanish.

Research Paper authored by Alex Douzet:
An Investigation of Pay Per Click Search Engine Advertising: Modeling the PPC Paradigm to Lower Cost per Action