Shipin’ over to Groupon

Here at Google, losing someone to Groupon isn’t a shocker.  I was, pleasantly, surprised to see that old HR Clicker Brian Schipper is now at Groupon too!  Heading up their HR.  Pre-IPO, not a bad time to jump on board ;-)

Solve is trying to Solve something..

Stu Libby is now over at SolveMedia, who got a nice piece in AdWeek today.

Solve Media from Solve Media on Vimeo.

The Nexus (+) One

The folks over at AppNexus, including, but not limited to (I know I’m overlooking someone) Ari & Mike Rubenstein just added another heavy hitter: Matt Haies. The former DoubleClick counsel is now GC over there, a great hire for them and a great opportunity for Matt. Matt’s wife, Jen Ladenburger, is still prospering at Google :-)

KR about the blood-letting fun days at DCLK!

Schraer rolling in it

Marc Schraer, Jersey Shore regular, and former Clicker, left a while back to head to Visible Measures.. They just secured a real nice funding round, good luck!

Email and more..

My former HR Partner, Cathy Hawley, has been at ReturnPath for years.. a few months back, long-time clicker, Jane Ritter, joined ReturnPath too.. I’ve known about this, but hadn’t posted, mostly since I don’t have a real system and just post shit.  And Ken Takahashi has also been there for a long time.

Also, Naomi Kagan (I forgot who told me this) finally got wise and departed Atlas/Microsoft and is now at start-up Mixpo.

Lastly, the poor folks at Epsilon – and there are many – have been having an un-fun April, dealing with the barrage of press surrounding their unauthorized system access.. I know I’ve gotten emails from 10+ companies alerting me about the incident.

Ones I’ve missed

Some good ol-Clickers who left that I missed.. probably known by all by now:

  1. Steve Dove went to Spain to be top digital dog for Prisa TV
  2. Ravi Kodali, former DFP Pre-Sales rep landed at YuMe, on the PM side.  He joins ex-Clicker Gian Lombardi, who has been there for a few years

David speaks about Group Commerce

Listening sort of made me sad that I don’t get to hear him more often.

More Clickers becoming Melders

Joe Pedro, old-school Clicker, joined AdMeld too!  I can’t believe I sifted that one out from my endless emails.  Although the title makes me curious:

Joe Pedro, 40, joined as director of quality of service, a newly created position. He had been director of ad operations at Peer 39.

Director of Quality of Service?  I don’t recall Joe ever working for Mehdi :-)

Paparo Joins AppNexus; Discusses Finding the Loo

Paparo Joins AppNexus; Discusses New Product Leadership Role.. and I doubt he can hack together much C, AppNexus engineers, you may relax now.