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Board Members
David Diamond
Mr. Diamond is the President of David Diamond Associates - a New
York-based consulting practice focused on marketing and strategic
planning. David has more than 20 years of management and marketing
expertise. His clients include a prestigious roster of companies
such as Iomega, CheckPoint Systems, Oxford Management Corporation,
Wise Foods, The Museum of Modern Art and Georgia Pacific. Prior
to founding David Diamond Associates, Mr. Diamond was President
of Emerging Businesses and Chief Vision Officer for Catalina Marketing.
In this position, Mr. Diamond was responsible for the company's
new and emerging ventures, which included its fast-track internet
division, Catalina Marketing Japan. He also was responsible for
creating the company's consumer attitude and behavior research-based
businesses (Alliance Research and Shopper Direct), and adding to
the marketing services portfolio of Catalina Marketing through acquisitions,
alliances and joint ventures. Prior to joining Catalina Marketing,
Diamond was President and CEO of Lamaze Publishing Company, a $10
million publisher of magazines and video products for new and expecting
parents. In addition, Mr. Diamond served as Senior Vice President
and General Manager for ActMedia's promotion division and as Senior
Vice President for the company's new products division where he
helped to develop the Instant Coupon Machine. Mr. Diamond also was
Vice President of Strategic Planning at Oral Research Labs. He began
his marketing career at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Diamond earned
a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and received his MBA in
finance from Columbia University. He currently resides in New York
City with his wife, Karen Zukowski, and their son, Theodore.
William M. Kearns, Jr.
Mr. Kearns is Chairman and Co-CEO, Keefe Managers, LLC, a money
management firm, since 2002; Vice Chairman, Keefe Managers, Inc.,
a money management firm, 1998 to 2002; President, W. M. Kearns &
Co., Inc., a private investment company, since 1994; Director, Selective
Insurance Group, Inc., since 1975; Director, Transistor Devices,
Inc., since 1991; Director, U. S. Shipping Partners L.P., since
2002; Senior Advisor to Proudfoot Consulting, PLC, since 1996; Trustee
of EQ Advisors Trust (AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co.) since 1997;
Trustee of AXA Enterprise Funds Trust (AXA Financial); Director,
Gridley and Company LLC, since 2001; Member Advisory Board, Private
Client Resources, since 2004; Executive Committee, Greater New York
Council of Boy Scouts of America, since 1985; Member Executive Advisory
Committee, William E. Simon School of Business Administration, University
of Rochester, since 1986; Member, Oncology Philanthropic Leadership
Council of Morristown Memorial Health Foundation, since 2005.
Steve Mott
Mr. Mott is the CEO of BetterBuyDesign, a payments systems consultancy
serving clients ranging from major banks and processors to technology
startups and investment capital/equity firms. Mr. Mott’s firm’s
projects span business case forecasts and justifications; strategy
and business development; technology assessments; project management;
and due diligence evaluations. Mr. Mott is a noted speaker and author
in the payments industry, and each year serves as a member of several
conference planning committees and as a presenter in more than two
dozen banking, merchant, technology and payment conferences. An
acknowledged pioneer in eCommerce, in 1997 he was named by Interactive
Week (now eWeek) magazine one of the “Top 25 Unsung Heroes
of the Internet” and in 1998 by Business 2.0 magazine one
of the “Top 25 Most Intriguing Minds for the New Economy.”
He was a graduate of Harvard Business School and a White House Fellow
appointee, and previously held executive positions at McKinsey &
Co., McGraw-Hill, MCI Telecommunications, MasterCard International
and Priceline WebHouse Club.
Sharon M. Munger
Ms. Munger is the retired Chairman of The M/A/R/C Group and most
recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of
M/A/R/C Research, an operating division of The M/A/R/C Group. As
a subsidiary of Omnicom, The M/A/R/C Group operates two businesses:
Targetbase, a CRM and direct marketing agency and M/A/R/C Research,
a strategic marketing research firm. Ms. Munger has played a prominent
role in developing practices that have influenced the marketing
services industry and has extensive experience in providing the
full complement of marketing research and database services available
through The M/A/R/C Group. She pioneered the company's database
marketing business in the early '80's after developing the service
on behalf of a M/A/R/C client. Ms. Munger is also credited with
steering the company into innovative business and service strategies
by establishing a full line of integrated services that have expanded
the company's industry penetration and revenues. She received a
B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University and serves as the President
of the Alumni Board of Directors as well as a member of the Corporate
Council for the Owen School of Management. She also serves on the
boards of several innovative marketing services firms.
Don Peppers
Don Peppers has been recognized for over a decade as one of the
leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management
strategies for business. He is also the co-author, with Martha Rogers,
Ph.D., of a series of international best sellers that have collectively
sold over a million copies in 15 languages. Peppers and Rogers’
most innovative strategic thinking is embodied in their latest book,
Rules to Break, Laws to Follow, which is expected to be published
in the third quarter of 2007. Most recently, their 2005 publication
of Return on Customer (or ROC) advanced the concepts and
tenets of business valuation to the next evolutionary stage, documenting
the customer base as a revenue-producing asset for businesses. They
are also the authors of the most comprehensive and best-selling
graduate level text book on CRM, Managing Customer Relationships,
published by Wiley in 2004. Peppers and Rogers are frequently recognized
for their intellectual contributions to business thinking. The
Times of London cited Peppers among their “Top 50 Business
Brains,” and the United Kingdom’s premier marketing
organization, the Chartered Institute for Marketing, cited
him among their inaugural listing of the 50 “most influential
thinkers in marketing and business today.” He has been ranked
by Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change among the global
“Top 100 Business Intellectuals” for two years running,
and Business 2.0 Magazine has named him one of the “foremost
business gurus of our times”. Peppers & Rogers Group is
a division of Carlson Marketing Worldwide, the global marketing
services arm of Carlson Companies. Gridley & Company LLC served
as the advisor to the company in its 2003 sale to Carlson.
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