Paul is a business leader focused on building products and fixing problems and has lots of fun in the process.  Most recently, Paul was with Lucidmedia to help take the technology platform to market as its Chief Revenue Officer. During Paul’s tenure, Lucidmedia experienced unprecedented revenue growth while solidifying his understanding of ad-tech.

Prior to Lucid, he headed up D&B Digital and Hoovers online business units for over 4 years. He was recruited to revive these underperforming businesses and develop a core strategy. Before D&B, Paul headed up East Coast Sales for Winstar Interactive Media. It was there that Paul got his first introduction to the crazy world we call online advertising.

Before WIMS he was a restauranteur in New Jersey where he learned far more about doing business than his MBA ever taught him. Paul resides in New Jersey with his awesomely spectacular wife and two kids.  The Jersey shore is the family’s go-to getaway spot during the summer.  And they BBQ all-year long…even in the dead of winter.

It Makes Me Smile: My kids make me smile from ear to ear as I watch them live and learn.  I have one son and one daughter who are opposite personalities.  PJ is so laid back and his younger sister is a total A type personality.  My wife and I joke about the tattoos they will be sporting… Abby’s says “Stand 300 ft. back” and PJ’s says “I need a hug.”

Before: Before I began to ride the web-ads wave I opened and ran several restaurants in New Jersey.  My first place was in the small town of Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ.  It was a highly successfully Mediterranean grill cafe which I eventually sold to enter the ad biz.  Over a beer I can tell you some really cool stories…. So if we ever meet for drinks, let me entertain you.

One Fine Day: Race a road rally, sail the Caribbean again this time with my son, get a home at the Jersey shore.

Words to Live By: “No big failures, no big success” – Tom Peters   “…if you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” – General Eric Shinseki, US Army.

One More Thing: I love Texas Hold’em.

Named for boxing world heavyweight champion Jack “Manassas Mauler” Dempsey, Jack is an experienced communications strategy professional with a wide range of account and agency experience. With a decade of traditional offline media experience, Jack’s former life was as a media director. In 2006, he began working in the area of digital media planning — gaining valuable experience in site direct, search and RTB planning — providing holistic communication planning services to his clients.

The ability to lead and inspire teams in the art and science of crafting business building communication plans that connect consumers to brands and vice versa is Jack’s passion.  Today, he serves as VMM’s head of client services. Served with the task of introducing clients to the RTB world and helping them succeed, he leverages his understanding of the traditional and non-traditional media world, and helps to craft custom RTB solutions that integrate into the larger media ecosystem to drive communication and business objectives and ROI.

A versatile digital marketing professional, Jeremy Hlavacek has enjoyed a variety of roles during his ten-year career. His experience runs the gamut from building out digital experiences at LEGO Toys, to directing strategy and new business at a New York start-up, to entertainment programming at CBS television. As part of Ogilvy’s strategy consulting practice, Jeremy advised clients in healthcare, financial services, and technology.

Jeremy holds an MBA from Cornell University, a Masters in Media & Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA from the College of William and Mary.

It Makes Me Smile: When the wheels are down and I’m looking out the window at a part of the world I haven’t visited before.

Before: Books, Tours, TV, Soap Operas, Toys, Ads, Restaurants, Startups… I guess you can say I have a diverse set of experience.

One Fine Day: I’d like to have a nice little place by the sea, more time to work on my jump shot, and a shorter stack of unread books on my nightstand.

Words to Live By: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein. It’s well travelled, but still holds up.

One More Thing: I loved walking through Prague and seeing last names like mine all over the place. Given that its been misspelled and mispronounced since pre-school, it was a brief moment of redemption. In case you’re wondering, the “H” is silent and “C” is soft. You should be able to figure it out from there, but if you can’t, no worries. You wouldn’t be the first and likely won’t be the last!