Tom Wilde

Current

• President, CEO at RAMP

Past

• SVP/GM Advertising & Commerce at NameMedia Inc
• SVP/GM MIVA North America at MIVA Inc.
• GM Search & Publishing at Lycos Inc

• VP, General Manager Search & Publishing at Terra Lycos SA
• VP, Marketing & Channels at Fast Search & Transfer

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Education

• Wharton
• Colby College

Connections

312 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Tom Wilde’s Summary

Deep experience in Internet Search market, both on the algorithmic side as well as the paid search side. Experience creating profitable businesses as a result of strategic shifts in the market. Experience building high performance teams with shared visions. Experience working within multi-national companies, managing staff across multiple countries. Experience building consensus across business units and stakeholders to launch successful global products.

Tom Wilde’s Specialties:

General Management (P&L), Product Management, Marketing, Team building, High growth environments.

Tom Wilde’s Experience

• President, CEO

  RAMP

  (Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  RAMP is an advanced Content Optimization SaaS platform providing publishers’ workflow, discovery and engagement solutions to drive monetization of online content to users’ search and browsing behavior. RAMP offers publishers an open, flexible and modular capability to optimize large amounts of content, including text, audio, video and images, within dynamic publishing environments. As a result, publishers’ content becomes positioned for discovery and precise targeting, both on search engines and within publishers’ own websites. Users rely on such precision to discover and engage with content, thereby increasing the commercial viability of content for publishers while curtailing publishing costs.

• SVP/GM Advertising & Commerce

  NameMedia Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

• SVP/GM MIVA North America

  MIVA Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MIVA; Internet industry)

  October 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  SVP/GM of MIVA's North American P&L.

• GM Search & Publishing

  Lycos Inc

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

• VP, General Manager Search & Publishing

  Terra Lycos SA

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TRLY; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 7 months)

  Global P&L responsibility for the Web Search, Search Engine Marketing, and Web Publishing platforms at Terra Lycos.

• VP, Marketing & Channels

  Fast Search & Transfer

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 5 months)

  Created the Global Product Management and Marketing functions at FAST, a pioneer in the Internet and Enterprise search industry.

Tom Wilde’s Education

• Wharton

  MBA , Strategic Management , 1998

• Colby College

  BA , 1989

Additional Information

Tom Wilde’s Websites:

• My Company

Tom Wilde’s Groups:

•    Wharton School Alumni

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