Doug envisions a world where he can look at all of his belongings and see recurring revenue. Where purchasing new or used items can be a thing of the past. Kerzner founded Six Degree Rentals on a threefold premise that if the entire planet listed all consumer goods they owned for rent, the global carbon footprint could dramatically be reduced; renters could save a considerable amount of money not paying retail while others can generate additional, much needed revenue.
Doug has 15+ years of experience in enterprise software sales working for SaaS technology companies such as eKomi, TouchCommerce and LowerMyBills.com, combined with a career in the entertainment industry where he learned how to navigate the executive boardroom and solve real-time business problems while often having to appease enormous egos. Doug is now assembling a core Advisory & Management team of top-shelf executives who will help navigate 6DR to success.
Don is an experienced President/CEO and General Manager in leading organizations and businesses with a reputation for building quality teams that deliver successful results. He has worked successfully in both large-scale corporate environments as well as early stage businesses with full P&L responsibility for $20M to over $200M.
Most recently, at LowerMybills/Experian, Don built the revenue sales organization from 4 players to over 60 and $7 million in sales to over $250 million. He helped grow the customer base from 50-60 clients to upwards of 800 and ultimately sold the company after 3 years to Experian for over $400 million. The company received the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
Don was the interim Chief Operating Officer at I-Search, providing hands-on leadership for the company. As president of Westec Security, Don was responsible for Interactive and Business Security and helped launch new technology nationwide with two-way audio and remote video.
Don began his began at Xerox, where over 18 years, he had rapidly ascended positions from sales management, branch and regional Management positions, to several national sales and marketing positions including the National Sales Manager for Advanced Products (Docutech).
Don currently serves on 4 boards (including My Public Info, Impact Radius, Bennet Optical Research), served as Director of the California Chamber of Commerce for 4 years, and was an early member of the Orange County Tech Coast Angels, reviewing almost 600 companies over the last 10 years. He developed a CEO consulting company, Developmetrics, helping to shape the teams, strategy, execution models and rapid growth of over 20 companies.
He has an Engineering BS degree and MBA and PhD. He resides in Newport Coast, CA with his wife Penny and has traveled extensively to over 60 countries.
Neil is the Chief Revenue Officer at Scorebig.com; the first and only sales channel enabling consumers to get great live event tickets at savings up to 60 percent below box office price.
Kaplan is a former Bain & Co. consultant, Kellogg MBA and Wharton undergrad. However, what resonates with Doug Kerzner about Neil is his unquestioned integrity, high work ethic and personal values. He has extensive experience in brand building and the successful launch, acquisition and integration of numerous businesses. As a time-tested C-level leader with several successful B2B and B2C e-commerce startups, Neil demonstrated success in monetizing online businesses from start-up to $90M+ revenue. His track record with three startups of dramatically increasing revenue, gross margin & profitability while efficiently scaling operations while fostering continuous innovation and team cohesion at all skill/seniority levels speaks to his passion and leadership.
Greg currently serves as the Chief Revenue Officer at Slickdeals, the nation’s largest and #1 rated social commerce site and mobile app curating the best deals and coupons on the web for 8-11 million users per month. Slickdeals is consistently ranked within the Top 100 most visited sites in the US by Alexa and helps advertisers drive over $1 billion in annual sales. Prior to Slickdeals, Greg held senior executive roles at three hyper-growth Internet startups: LowerMyBills.com, People Media and Savings.com. At each of these companies, Greg led various initiatives associated with scale and helped all three companies successfully exit to strategic buyers including Experian, IAC/Match.com and Cox Enterprises. Prior to entering the startup arena, Greg served as an investment banker with HoulihanLokey. Greg earned his M.B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies and Finance from The Anderson School at UCLA and graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Keith Manning is EVP & Managing Director of International Business for G|R, Inc. - the largest and most respected direct marketing company in the world, with distribution in 68 countries and sales of more than $1.5 billion per year. Manning is a dynamic business leader and an expert in all facets of marketing and marketing analytics with a track record of building businesses and driving results – from entrepreneurial start-ups to matrixed multinational companies such as AOL Time-Warner & G|R.
Leonard Eckhaus is founder and past chairman of the Data Center Institute and founder and CEO of AFCOM. For the past 30 years, AFCOM has been the only association dedicated to providing education and resources for data center professionals to share industry best practices and the dissemination of critical information.
Eckhaus was a data center manager for such public and private organizations as IBM, TRW and the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. He has served on the Curriculum Advisory Board at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, authored numerous articles on data center management and has been quoted frequently in such publications as Computerworld, Information Week, Datamation, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and more.
Peter Wells has been a factor in building several market leading, fast growth companies focused on providing actionable data for clients to use to help their customers and grow their businesses. These companies are in the Analytics, Personalization, Customer Engagement and Conversion categories.
Success has come through his strong belief in the solutions created by the brilliant developers within these companies and the big problems they solved for his clients and their customers. This is only overshadowed by his passion for designing/executing sales strategies, working with smart people and motivating people/teams to take action and win.
Wells has built and managed both direct and indirect teams of sales directors, sales executives, account development managers, pre-sales engineers, agency and technology channel managers in the retail, media, technology, communications/telco, pharma & B2B verticals and has seen them through 3 IPO's – all with triple digit growth with every venture.
Jonny Forman is the Owner & CEO of Blue Jiraffe Marketing. Forman is an executive-level marketer with 15+ years of experience developing, launching and managing brands that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue in the US and overseas for category leaders including Reckitt Benckiser, Seagrams, Guthy-Renker, BeachMint and New Vitality. Highly versatile and multi-disciplined, Jonny is adept at bringing complex products to market via online and offline channels, optimizing conversion and building out lifetime value. His understanding of the direct response landscape, continuity marketing, consumer behavior and triggers come from years of hands-on experience across an array of categories including Skin Care, Beauty, Hair Care, Weight Loss, Ingestibles, Nutrition, Fitness, Fashion, Entertainment and Intellectual Property.
Srinivasa is a dynamic, result oriented, data driven, senior eCommerce, Digital Marketing and Technology executive. Srinivasa has over 20 years of wide-ranging eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Data, and Technology experience in various market verticals for Fortune 500 to startup organizations including Gateway, Acer, Guthy-Renker, Simpson Digital Corporation, StarClub Inc., and most recently at Envy Medial Inc. Through out his career Srinivasa has solution architected, drove tactical and strategical initiatives, spearheaded ecommerce solutions and replatforming, led eBusiness solutions for B2C/B2B, development, implementation of many in-house, custom-developed technology solutions, integration of back office CRM/ERP systems, third party systems, and digital marketing and conversion optimization programs.
Srinivasa was Head of eCommerce and Technology at Envy Medical, Inc, where he spearheaded successful launch of their consumer brands’ ecommerce and digital channel. Prior to that he was CTO of StarClub and is responsible for all technology and ecommerce matters of the Company and led development of unified data management platform for social network for celebrities. Previously, Srinivasa held the position of VP, eCommerce and Technology at Simpson Digital Corp., where he drove eCommerce and technology roadmap for their start-up initiative. Prior to that, he was Senior Director, eCommerce and Technology at Guthy-Renker, a leading direct marketing company, where he successfully managed ecommerce, digital marketing, mobile, and Web operations for over 16 national and international brand websites such as Proactiv, Wen, etc. Prior to that Srinivasa has held numerous management positions in both the marketing and IT departments at Gateway and at Acer (acquired Gateway), including head of the eCommerce and Web operations for Global Gateway, and for Acer PANAM region.
John Rospenda has over 20 years of online and offline marketing experience for start-ups, large brands ... and turning start-ups into large brands! In his most recent position as Vice President of Media for the Just Fabulous, Inc. family of JustFab, Shoedazzle, Fabletics, and FabKids brands, he was responsible for all customer outreach strategies across online, TV, print, and mobile.
Prior to joining JustFab, John spent almost four years at eHarmony, managing the online channels of display, affiliates, email, partnership integration, and search, helping build the company into the premier brand in online dating. He has also managed various acquisition and CRM programs at LowerMyBills.com/Experian Interactive, IAC, Realtor.com, and Yesmail.com.
John was born and raised in Chicago, making him an expert on stuffed pizza and a die-hard Cubs fan. He holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing from DePaul University. He lives in Seal Beach, California, with his wife and two sons.
Ola is a pragmatic marketer who has been involved in building B2B enterprise SaaS start-ups for the last 13 years. Before that she worked for an integrated marketing firm in Silicone Valley focused mostly on Hewlett Packard during the Compaq HP merger. Her passion is in the process of optimizing systems that drive business. Previously as the VP of Marketing at MomentFeed, her focus was on integrating the automation, demand generation, direct marketing, events, thought leadership, and digital marketing functions to drive leads, sales ready opportunities, client retention and ultimately revenue. She is married with two children and lives in Moorpark, CA. She gratuated Cum Laude from San Jose State University with a BS degree in Mass Communications - Public Relations.
Stacey Levy has been at the helm of Davis Public Relations since 2001 and has spent more than 20 years working with a wide variety of companies increasing their visibility, reaching the right customers and building their businesses. She has provided successful public relations and promotion to clients in corporate arenas, entertainment, technology, sports industry, film, tourism, special events, television production, post production, international, fashion and non-profit including companies such as LowerMyBills.com, Internships.com and TweetMyJobs.Com amongst others. Prior to founding Davis Public Relations, she held a variety of Director/Manager positions with companies including Spiderdance, Inc. and MXG Media (formerly MoXieGirl). Before MXG Media, she oversaw the publicity campaigns for several of King World Productions’ syndicated first-run series including Hollywood Squares and The Roseanne Show. Prior to her work at King World, Levy was the Director of Publicity for NBC Studios where she managed the public relations for eight series, movies, and mini-series produced by the network owned studio (launching the hit show Will & Grace and running the campaigns for Profiler, Pretender, Homicide Life on the Street and others). Levy also spent two years as a Senior Account Executive at each of the leading public relations firms The Lippin Group and Baker Winokur Ryder where she represented television series and corporate public relations for distribution and production companies such as Pearson Television, Rysher Entertainment, Alliance Atlantis and Saban Entertainment. Shows included The Power Rangers and Sweet Valley High.
Carolyn Kerzner is an experienced contract recruiter and specializes in digital media, ecommerce and entertainment. She brings over 15+ years of corporate, performance-based, contract recruiting and staffing experience in the software, Internet media, e-Commerce, stealth Start-Ups, Mobile, Search and Consumer Products industry. She has expertise in candidate generation/ development, competitive analysis, staffing strategy, Internet research, social & professional networking, targeted intelligence, corporate recruiting and talent acquisition, passive candidate and internet sourcing. Mrs. Kerzner has been a corporate senior contract recruiter at LowerMyBills.com, Yahoo Media Group, Google, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Microsoft, DropBox, and Tesla.