Daniel Finnigan

Current

President & CEO at Jobvite

Past

Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital
Board of Directors at Edgeio.com
Senior Vice President, Yahoo & GM of Yahoo HotJobs at Yahoo

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Education

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
University of California, Los Angeles

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Daniel Finnigan’s Summary

July, 2008-Present: President & CEO Jobvite, Inc. Fast growing, on-demand talent acquisition and hiring service built for world of social and professional networking. Clients include Linked-In, Zappos, Tivo, Infinera, Digg, among others.

Nov, 2007-June, 2008: EIR Benchmark Capital

2002-July, 2007: Yahoo - SVP. General Manger of Yahoo! HotJobs. The team doubled revenue, tripled unique visitors, grew minutes/visit 33% while competition dropped. Conceived and completed agreement between Hotjobs, Yahoo and 7 newspaper/media companies for recruitment and local advertising partnership. Had a lot of fun working with the smart team at Hotjobs.

1999-2002: Knight Ridder VP - pulled together all of newspaper company's websites into one subsidiary, Knight Ridder Digital, as CEO of KRD. Led acquisition for company of CareerBuilder.com; one of 3 CareerBuilder Board Members. Member of Board of Classified Ventures with major newspaper companies (cars.com, apartments.com). Grew Real Cities Network.

1995-1998: SBC/Pacific Telesis - launched AtHand.com. Took over at CEO and re-branded as SMARTpages.com (now branded yellowpages.com). Partnered with almost all RBOCS for distribution.

1993-1995: LA Times New Bus Development (Invested in Netscape, helped launch LA Times on Prodigy.)

1991-1993: Wharton MBA

1988-1993: Freelance reporter for Philadelphia Inquirer and LA Times

1988-1991: Worked for Dave Farber at Univeristy of Pennsylvana, one of key architects of original DARPANET and Internet, including production of digital networking conference for Farber and Vince Cerf.

Before that...Annenberg School at Penn, and graduated from UCLA in 1984.