Ben Huh

Current

• CEO at I Can Has Cheezburger?
• Publisher at Itchmo.com

Past

• Director of Product Management at Intava
• Director of eBusiness at InstallShield
• Consultant at AccuRadio

• Founder and CEO at Raydium
• Interface Designer at Cars.com

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Education

• Northwestern University

Recommended

10 people have recommended Ben

Connections

227 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• I Can Has Cheezburger?
• I Has A Hotdog!
• My Blog

Ben Huh’s Summary

Ben Huh’s Specialties:

I am the world's foremost expert in the captioning of cat pictures. We are party in the front, business in the back.

Ben Huh’s Experience

• CEO

  I Can Has Cheezburger?

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (11 months)

  Pet Holdings, Inc. operates:
  http://icanhascheezburger.com
  (lolcats for your amusement)
  http://ihasahotdog.com
  (cute and funny dog pictures)

• Publisher

  Itchmo.com

  (Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Director of Product Management

  Intava

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 5 months)

• Director of eBusiness

  InstallShield

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 11 months)

  (Acquired by Macrovision. Also held positions as Web Team Manager and eMarketing Manager.)
  At InstallShield, Ben led a team of developers and designers who revamped the product Web site, raised customer satisfaction scores, and increased site response time by more than 400% through standardization of the site and simplifying the customer conversion process. Traffic increased by more than 30% in a one-year period for an already well-known company. Prior to that, he started a successful keyword advertising program while increasing the productivity of the online seminars using new processes and applications he developed. Lead generation from the online seminars grew more than five-fold. As the Director of eBusiness, he improved the handling of customer contact and communication in the CRM system and improved the reliability of supporting systems while reducing maintenance cost. Ben also actively participated in high-level strategy meetings and reported regularly to the CEO.

• Consultant

  AccuRadio

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2001 — April 2002 (10 months)

  Ben was the acting general manager for AccuRadio and assisted the CEO in acquiring advertising sponsors, business development, and managing the staff. Ben also served as the technology director.

• Founder and CEO

  Raydium

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  * Lead a team of developers and sales staff.
  * Raised more than $300,000 of private equity financing.
  * Met all deadlines for delivery of product.
  * Created and executed marketing and sales strategies.
  * Negotiate contracts with Global 1000 and other clients.
  * Developed technology and business partnerships.

• Interface Designer

  Cars.com

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1999 — January 2000 (10 months)

Ben Huh’s Education

• Northwestern University

  BSJ, Journalism, Sociology, 1995 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Managing Editor, The Daily Northwestern
  Member, InterVarsity (AACM)

Additional Information

Ben Huh’s Websites:

• I Can Has Cheezburger?
• I Has A Hotdog!
• My Blog

Ben Huh’s Groups:

InstallShield Software Alumni,
Northwestern University Alumni