Jim Brock

Current

• Chairman and Co-Founder at Attributor

Past

• Senior Vice President, Communications and Consumer Services at Yahoo! Inc.
• Partner at Amicus Capital
• Partner at Venture Law Group

• Associate, Technology Practice at Morrison & Foerster

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Education

• University of Chicago
• Claremont McKenna College

Connections

406 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Company

Jim Brock’s Summary

Jim Brock has been involved with Internet businesses since 1994, most recently serving as SVP, Communications & Consumer Services at Yahoo! In that role, he oversaw the company's global communications products (including Yahoo! Mail and Messenger), the broadband businesses (including the landmark partnerships with SBC/AT&T and other broadband ISPs), and the bulk of the company's global subscription businesses. He joined Yahoo! in 2001 as SVP of Major Initiatives, reporting to Jerry Yang. In that role, he developed and executed the company's broadband and subscriber acquisition strategy, a key element of Yahoo!'s turnaround.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Jim was a partner with Venture Law Group, a leading Silicon Valley technology law firm, where he led the firm's Internet practice, serving as counsel and advisor to pioneering companies such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, LinkExchange, Silicon Investor and eToys. In 1998, Brock co-founded Amicus, a private advisory and investment firm whose portfolio included AvantGo, eGroups, On24, Tucows, when.com and Vividence.

Jim holds a B.A. in economics with honors from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and on the managing board of the Law Review.

Jim Brock’s Experience

• Chairman and Co-Founder

  Attributor

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  Attributor is a content tracking and analytics platform that allows publishers to program use of their text, image and video content across the web and social networks. Using advanced fingerprinting algorithms, a large scale crawling infrastructure and detailed contextual analysis, Attributor enables publishers of all kinds to understand and optimize how their content is monetized by websites, search engines and ad networks. Using the Attributor platform, customers can monitor licensed uses, identify new sales leads and revenue-sharing opportunities, and derive more links and better search engine placement. Attributor also offers a free content tracking service at beta.fairshare.cc.

• Senior Vice President, Communications and Consumer Services

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Online Media industry)

  January 2001 — November 2004 (3 years 11 months)

• Partner

  Amicus Capital

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  Seed-stage venture capital and advisory services for early-stage online businesses.

• Partner

  Venture Law Group

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Law Practice industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

• Associate, Technology Practice

  Morrison & Foerster

  (Law Practice industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years)

Jim Brock’s Education

• University of Chicago

  J.D. , Law, Law and Economics , 1983 — 1986

• Claremont McKenna College

  B.A. , Economics , 1979 — 1982

Additional Information

Jim Brock’s Websites:

• My Company