Gerry Campbell

Gerry Campbell

CEO at Collecta.com

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • CEO at Collecta
  • Advisor and Angel Investor at Frequency Capital Advisory, LLC
Past
Education
  • The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
  • The Ohio State University
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Gerry Campbell’s Summary

Gerry Campbell is CEO of realtime search company Collecta. The company is focused on bringing the web to users as it happens.

Most recently, he has been an angel investor and advisor to notable early-stage companies, including Summize (acquired by Twitter), Tweetdeck, StockTwits, Outside.in, OpenCalais and Betaworks. He blogs at LuckyRobot.com.

Gerry previously led Reuters’ Search and Content Technologies group, bringing deep domain expertise to existing Reuters’ products while driving breakthrough innovation in the delivery of relevant information and insight to customers. Prior to that, Mr. Campbell was SVP for AOL’s Search and Directional Media group, where he managed the AOL Search, Local Search, Yellow Pages; Netscape Search; and eCommerce Search properties, including all search-based revenue and advertising initiatives. Earlier, Mr. Campbell led Product Strategy for AltaVista's commerce group – the original Shopping.com. He has also held marketing and management positions with Compaq and CompuServe, and co-founded Bounce Networks, a digital media startup. Mr. Campbell holds an MBA and a BA in Mass Media from The Ohio State University.

His hobbies include family, running, motorsports and digital media.

Gerry Campbell’s Specialties:

General management - Performance advertising - Digital media
Search technologies - Content management technologies
Global management - Innovation - Entrepreneurship and Intrepreneurship


Gerry Campbell’s Experience

  • CEO

    Collecta

    (Internet industry)

    March 2009Present (5 months)

    Realtime Search

  • Advisor and Angel Investor

    Frequency Capital Advisory, LLC

    (Internet industry)

    April 2008Present (1 year 4 months)

    Helping companies make the Web more useful, more social and more profitable.

  • President/Global Head of Search & Content Technologies

    Reuters

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; rtrsy; Information Services industry)

    September 2006April 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  • SVP AOL Search

    America Online, Inc

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; twx; Internet industry)

    June 2001July 2006 (5 years 2 months)

    General management responsibility for AOL's Search businesses, spanning Web Search, Local, Pay-per-call, shopping search, travel search. Team responsibilities included P&L accountability, Search Programming (editorial) and management of relationships with Google, Vivisimo, Ingenio, Copernic and other Search industry leaders.

  • director

    altavista

    (Internet industry)

    19992001 (2 years)

  • Co-founder and VP Marketing

    Bounce Networks

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2000June 2001 (8 months)

  • Director of Product Strategy and Marketing

    AltaVista Shopping.com

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

    February 1999November 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  • Sr. Product Marketing Mgr

    Compaq Computers

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

    September 1997February 1999 (1 year 6 months)

  • Business Line Manager

    CompuServe

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

    March 1995September 1997 (2 years 7 months)

  • Founder

    Sterling Communication

    (Internet industry)

    19911993 (2 years)


Gerry Campbell’s Education

  • The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business

    MBA , Marketing, Competitive Strategy , 19941996

  • The Ohio State University

    BA , Communication , September 1986June 1990


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Gerry Campbell’s Interests:

Distance running, new media/digital entertainment


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