John Nail

Current

Principal/Founder at The Industry Radar

Past

EVP - Sales and Marketing at RealLife HR
VP at benefitpoint
VP Mid Market at Authoria

Founder & CEO at digitalBenefits
CEO and Founder at EMployease
Various Sales and Mgmt Roles at UNUM
RMVP at UnumProvident
RMVP at UnumProvident

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Education

Williams College

Recommended

9 people have recommended John

Connections

168 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

John Nail’s Summary

John Nail, a 30+ year benefits industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, is the founder and “newsmaster” of The Industry Radar, his third employee benefits related technology startup.
Mr. Nail’s passion is “information logistics” - or creating transactional, information and communication efficiencies between the various constituents in the “HR/employee benefits supply chain” – employees, employers, brokers and benefits/healthcare insurers.
He started his first company, Employease in 1996 which was the true first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and the first web native human resources benefits enrollment, communication and financial management platform. Mr. Nail personally funded the startup of the company and as its first CEO raised over $17 million of capital in three venture capital rounds before leaving the company in late 1999 to start his second company, digitalBenefits, which he later sold to Authoria.
In the fall of 2006, after a very successful partnership, Employease was acquired by ADP and today is an integral part of the company’s major market growth strategy.
The Industry Radar (www.theindustryradar.com) which is an RSS driven digital media business focused solely on meeting the real time information needs of human resources, insurance, healthcare and employee benefits professionals. Its 80+ RSS news feeds and 2 email newsletters reach well over 100,000 industry professionals daily and serve over 4 million article views monthly.
Mr. Nail, a Shelby car buff, a Civil War buff, pug lover (we have 5) and avid golfer, is a Cum Laude graduate of Williams College and is also the father of three ages 26, 8 and 6. He maintains his office and home in Atlanta, Georgia and a garage for his 2 Shelbys.

John Nail’s Specialties:

Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Enterprise Software
Web 2.0
Enterprise Web 2.0
SaaS
HR Technology
CRM
Salesforce.com
Digital media
Portals
Enterprise RSS
HRIS
Email Marketing

John Nail’s Experience

Principal/Founder

The Industry Radar

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
EVP - Sales and Marketing

RealLife HR

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Human Resources industry)

January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
VP

benefitpoint

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years )
VP Mid Market

Authoria

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Human Resources industry)

July 2000 — June 2001 (1 year )
Founder & CEO

digitalBenefits

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — July 2000 (7 months)

startup sold to Authoria 7/2000
CEO and Founder

EMployease

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — December 1999 (4 years )

Founded first SaaS company in the US. Acquired by ADP 10/2006
Various Sales and Mgmt Roles

UNUM

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

December 1975 — April 1992 (16 years 5 months)

Various postions including Regional Marketing VP - NE Region. Technology liasion for the field sales org.
RMVP

UnumProvident

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1975 — 1992 (17 years )
RMVP

UnumProvident

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1975 — 1992 (17 years )