CEO at assistly.com
Greater San Diego Area
- Current
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- CEO at assistly.com
- Board member at iList
- Past
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- Vice President - Products at AOL
- President & CEO at goowy media
- VP Sales & Marketing at eAssist Global Solutions
- Director Customer Solutions at eShare Technologies
- Director Customer Solutions at eShare Technology Inc.
- Education
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- State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Connections
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500+
connections
- Industry
- Internet
- Websites
Alex Bard’s Summary
Career entrepreneur with 10+ years in the Internet communications space. Experienced executive with strong leadership skills, ability to act decisively regarding human, financial, environmental and technical challenges.
Passionate, driven, and commited to creating success for the company and individuals inside of the organization. Forward thinking with strong inter-personal skills, and experience with Human Resources, Accountancy/Finance, Marketing, Fundraising, and Hiring.
Alex Bard’s Specialties:
financing, acquisitions, business develpoment, sales management, product management, marketing, fund raising
Alex Bard’s Experience
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CEO
assistly.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
I am happy to be an entrepreneur again - working with great smart people, who also happen to be my life long friends. We are about to update the world of customer service software - stay tuned.
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Board member
iList
(Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Vice President - Products
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
January 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 10 months)
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President & CEO
goowy media
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2004 — October 2009 (5 years 8 months)
goowy is an innovative product company focused on developing web based applications that help you manage your digital lifestyle. We currently offer 2 products, the goowy webtop (www.goowy.com) and yourminis (www.yourminis.com).
The goowy webtop offers you a set of integrated tools for communicating and sharing, including email, contacts, calendar, file storage, integrated instant messaging, minis and games.
yourminis is a personalized dashboard of minis (mini applications, also known as widgets) that let you perform specific tasks, and get information and features from all over the web in one place. You can configure minis to see your email, check the weather, watch youtube videos, search the web, browse flickr photos, read news and rss feeds, save notes & to dos, listen to music, and much more. -
VP Sales & Marketing
eAssist Global Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1999 — March 2004 (4 years 7 months)
Provided leadership and coordination of company sales and marketing functions. Developed and implement sales and marketing strategy across north america. Monitored and analyzed sales and marketing activities against goals.
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Director Customer Solutions
eShare Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Lead a team of customer solutions engineers. The group was responsible for both pre-sales engineering support as well as post sales implementation. Managed key relationships with the technical decision-making and decision-influencing teams for potential and existing customers. Developed 'best practices' in solution initiation, design, deployment and management.
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Director Customer Solutions
eShare Technology Inc.
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Alex Bard’s Education
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
Bachelors , Finance , 1992 — 1996
Additional Information
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Alex Bard’s Interests:
Business, Travel, Wine, Motorcycles, Sports, Food, Snowboarding, Web 2.0, Gadgets, classic cars
Alex Bard’s Groups:
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Web 2.0 -
Spymaster -
Social Game Developers -
San Diego Founder Institute
Alex Bard’s Contact Settings
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