DoubleClick Alumni

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Welcome to Silicon Alley

Eric Kirby will be delivering a preso on email marketing. He’s now a thought-leader, which I’d agree with. I was just talking with Eric a few weeks ago, just catching up, glad to see the success he continues to enjoy.

I knew it was coming, the demo is underway, as a new build-out begins.  Lots of memories..

One of the cool things about living in the Valley, as I now do, is all the tech and start-ups.  Even cooler is when you know a founder and get to meet up and have lunch with them!  I had lunch today with Navdeep Saini, CTO and co-founder of Permuto.  They are a start-up, 2 miles from my house, doing some interesting things with display ads for marketers.. Good to see him!

Yea, I was on Facebook tonite.. for like 5 minutes.  But in my list of friends, I got a reminder of Steve Wolkoff.  Just reminded me of that tragic loss.

I heard a funny story.. and yea, I’m going to throw someone nice under the bus, but all in good fun.  Eoin Townsend, all around good guy and now customer over at Heavy.com, had some issues with their use of DFP recently.  So, among his attempts to reach out for some help, apparently he shot a note over to David (yes, that David).  Quite funny since David left, which was well covered by the press, over 6 months ago.. I need to get Eoin to read this blog a little more often

In typical good fashion, David forwarded it over to someone to follow up.

After 3+ years at DoubleClick then, 5+ years at Google, Tom Fochetta recently joined Amazon in July as Director of Ad Sales for the East Coast.

Ex-Clicker (well, aren’t we all now ex-Clickers?) — anyway, Tom Walsh just accepted an offer to join a bunch of old DFA clients from Beyond Interactive at HookLogic, Inc. in NYC.  He will be VP, Sales & Marketing and looking to hire good sales and marketing people first in NYC and then elsewhere.  Anyone interested can send a resume to him at Tom {at} HookLogic(.)com.  I checked the management roster and sure enough, the president is the very well known Vardaan.

I got an email from Gad, the French clicker (ok, not the only one, but the one I worked with the most, way back when).. He had a lead on a pretty cool gig:  Sales Director /VP sales in NY area, for a start-up who is launching a new advertising inventory system in the US.  Gad claims it’s better than ShowAvail  Ping me or gad (gad a-t stanislas dot org)

As I packed up this AM in my hotel, I looked at my nice DoubleClick duffel bag.  I then remembered where I got it.  Back in like 2002 or 2003, I think Bruce Dalziel had the idea to sell off the excess schwag to the employees, so I bought a few things, including this bag.  I recall paying $20, I think Barb (Thanner) was running the register