Co-Founder of www.brownbook.net
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- Co-Founder at www.brownbook.net
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- CEO / COO at eSeekers (izimi.com then sharenow.com)
- Chief Technology Officer at BT Directories
- IT Director at Scoot
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Marc Lyne’s Summary
Relish the challenge.
Marc Lyne’s Specialties:
Leadership of a dedicated group of professional technology and product experts, fueling empowerment and driving delivery.
Marc Lyne’s Experience
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Co-Founder
www.brownbook.net
(Online Media industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Brownbook.net is the FREE global business directory that ANYONE can edit, its based on wiki principals where anyone can edit, add or review any business, add photos and videos. Brownbook is a global directory platform with 27 million businesses already listed that helps businesses get found online. Any web site can integrate Brownbook data using the OpenSearch api. See what the press have said about us here: http://blog.brownbook.net/press/
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CEO / COO
eSeekers (izimi.com then sharenow.com)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Originally named izimi.com, re-branded Sharenow.com.
All about instantly sharing anything with anyone.
Photos, music, video…anything, straight from your PC to family, friends, colleagues or the world .
You control your own content
No uploads
No hosting
There are no restrictions on media type, size or quality, so you can do what you want. -
Chief Technology Officer
BT Directories
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
June 2001 — April 2006 (4 years 11 months)
BT Directories is a £200m turnover division of British Telecom. BT Directories products include the 180 printed UK phone books, directory enquiries and an online directory enquiries service.
Following the sale of Scoot to BT we successfully merged the Scoot classified capability in to the phone book, directory enquiries and bt.com. Then expanded the capabilities with the implementation of the Netlinx systems to run the phonebook operation and rationalised infrastructure across the division reducing costs by £40m. -
IT Director
Scoot
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2003 (6 years )
I joined Scoot (formerly Freepages) to put the companies existing freephone telephone directory enquiries service on to the internet. This worked very well and we expanded the service to Holland, Belgium and then France. Achieved a full listing on the London Stock Exchange and then NASDAQ as Scoot.com plc with a valuation in excess of $2bn. Following the failure of the new technology platform I returned to the UK as IT Director to rationalize the failing platform and prepare the company for sale. We successfully sold Scoot to British Telecom.
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Marc Lyne’s Interests:
Anything on water, I am a commercially endorsed offshore yachtmaster. Anything on snow particularly snowboarding
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