CrowdGather Advisors

John Breslin

Advisor

Net visionary and Dublin native, John Breslin is the co-founder and director of the highly praised boards.ie ltd., Ireland's largest message board community. John Breslin is also a postdoctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer on all areas of Semantic Web and social software at DERI, NUI Galaway, and founded the SIOC project, an interconnection of common social software. Breslin currently blogs at Socialmedia.net, created WebCamp, and is a member of the W3C Advisory Committee.

Christopher Kelly

Advisor

Christopher Kelly is a leader in the World Wide Service Provider sales organization, Cisco Systems. Prior to his position at Cisco, Mr. Kelly served in executive and management positions at Riverhead Networks, Universal Access Inc. and RedCreek Communications. Mr. Kelly has built sales teams from the ground up, overseen M&A transactions and has a wide range of high-level contacts in the technology sector. Currently he presents on successful sales strategies at industry conferences.

Mr. Kelly received his Bachelors Degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Jake McKee

Advisor

Jake McKee is an evangelist for online and offline community building, social media, and customer to company interaction. He has been working with online communities, fan groups, and consumer groups since the early days of the Internet, and has a rich background in Web development, community management, business strategy, and product development.

Jake is the Principal at Ant's Eye View, a Dallas-based social media and customer engagement consultancy. McKee spent more than five years as the Global Community Relations Specialist for the LEGO. In 2006, his work was featured on the front pages of Wired and Forbes.

Jake McKee also boasts a rich background in public speaking on such topics as community building and management, interaction strategies and understanding web 2.0 and social media.

Zoe Myerson

Advisor

With more than 25 years' experience in advertising sales, Myerson has held senior positions in advertising sales leadership as the VP of Worldwide Sales at CrowdGather. Director of Advertising sales for 411 Web Interactive, Director of Advertising Sales and Co-Founder of Overture, now (Yahoo! Search Marketing), where she was instrumental in the creation of the first cost per click revenue model in the world. Prior to joining GoTo.com in 1998, she oversaw the growth and expansion of the southwest region for both Juno Online Services and Yahoo!.

Heather Schlegel

Advisor

Heather Schlegel is an innovative Internet start-up veteran with more than 12 years of experience, contributing to more than 50 successful technology product launches. Schlegel worked for AOL as the first DHTML (AJAX) technology evangelist in 2000, and later as a product manager for AOL's AIM division. She joins Crowdgather from her technology marketing consultancy, The Purple Tornado.

Schlegel is active in many areas of society and naturally creates communities, most recently she lead the revitalization of the LA technology community by creating Geek Dinner events, which became an anchor point to launch StartupLA, Twistup, BarcampLA and many other technology events. Heather Schlegel has been featured in the LA Times for her efforts in the LA Tech Community and has spoken at various industry conferences.