Ted Shelton

Current

Interim CMO at Symbian Foundation
Partner at The Conversation Group

Past

Advisor to Leadership Team at Symbian Foundation
VP, Business Development at Technorati
Founder at Personal Bee

Chief Operating Officer at Orb Networks
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr, Davidow Ventures
Chief Executive Officer at Calltrex
Chief Strategy Officer at Borland Software Corporation
Chief Executive Officer at The DrSpock Company
Chief Executive Officer at Neta4
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing at WhoWhere? Inc.
Executive Producer at CMP Media
Founder, CEO at Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Associate at ARCH Development

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Education

University of Chicago
Deep Springs College

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500+ connections

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Ted Shelton’s Summary

In creating The Conversation Group in 2007, I sought to bring together a collection of thoughtful leaders to learn together, and share their discoveries, on how business is changing due to the widespread adoption of social technologies.

The result is a passionate organization of almost 40 people in the United States and Europe who are focused on how a new set of technologies is enabling collective intelligence to emerge on a global scale.

In addition to working with Fortune 100 companies on how they transform their own businesses, I am writing a book on the vision our group has of how Business Will Change:

http://www.businesswillchange.com

Please engage with me in discussion in person, here on LinkedIn, or on my blogs before you ask for a LinkedIn connection -- I will only connect with people that I know.

"If you aren't learning while you are teaching, then you probably aren't really teaching either" - John Francis

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra

"Since there's no other reason for me to be here, lets assume I'm very good at this" - Charlie Wilson's War

Ted Shelton’s Specialties:

enterprise software, internet, new media, social media, organizational dynamics, collective intelligence, software development, development tools, mobile technology, telephony, cellular

Ted Shelton’s Experience

Interim CMO

Symbian Foundation

(Non-Profit; Telecommunications industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

For the next few months I will move from my advisory role to a full time interim management position, leading the marketing organization at the Symbian Foundation. We are doing a search for a permanent head of marketing, so if you are qualified and interested please contact me!
Partner

The Conversation Group

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Founder and CEO of innovative professional services group working with clients to better utilize web 2.0 and participatory media technologies to engage with their markets - Offices in London, New York, and San Francisco
Advisor to Leadership Team

Symbian Foundation

(Non-Profit; Telecommunications industry)

October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)
VP, Business Development

Technorati

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

April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

Technorati acquired The Personal Bee on April 11, 2007. I have joined Technorati as VP of Business Development but will also be spending half of my time assisting in the productization and integration of the Bee technology into Technorati's products.
Founder

Personal Bee

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Bringing together the best tools for news aggregation and presentation, Personal Bee (www.personalbee.com) provides an infrastructure for individuals and organizations to build their own vertical news communities. For readers, it is a discovery engine for up-to-date news on topics of personal importance. For publishers it is a toolbox for gathering content from a wide variety of sources and engaging readers in the process of refining and presenting that content. Personal Bee is a privately held company, headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Chief Operating Officer

Orb Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — August 2005 (8 months)

Responsible for all operations, marketing, and sales for this next-generation streaming media company.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Mohr, Davidow Ventures

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2004 — January 2005 (8 months)
Chief Executive Officer

Calltrex

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2003 — May 2004 (7 months)

Leading entrepreneurial startup, focused on bringing business process automation and workflow management to the small and medium sized business mobile professional.
Chief Strategy Officer

Borland Software Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 6 months)

Managed strategic partnerships, M&A, venture fund investing, and contributed to the strategic planning process for the company.
Chief Executive Officer

The DrSpock Company

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

September 1999 — April 2000 (8 months)

Started successful family and children advice media company
Chief Executive Officer

Neta4

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

February 1999 — August 1999 (7 months)

Tried to bring Israeli technology to US -- ecommerce through email software
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

WhoWhere? Inc.

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

December 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 1 month)

Helped grow this early dotcom to become the 8th largest websie in US audience reach by the time we sold it to Lycos in August of 1998 -- managed advertising sales, business development, and marketing.
Executive Producer

CMP Media

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

March 1996 — December 1996 (10 months)

Responsible for managing all aspects of developing and launching Internet media web site -- NetGuide Live (now defunct) for this technology publisher.
Founder, CEO

Information Technology Solutions, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1990 — January 1996 (6 years 1 month)

Founded and led software development and consulting firm specializing in the NeXT computer and focused on financial services customers -- served corporate accounts that included JP Morgan, SwissBank (now UBS), and First Chicago. Grew company to 60 employees in three offices (Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco)
Associate

ARCH Development

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 1987 — December 1989 (2 years 4 months)

One of the first 3 employees of ARCH Development Corp -- helped to start 11 companies from technology originating in Argonne National Labs and the University of Chicago. Involved in all aspects of technology evaluation, business plan develoment, executive recruitment, etc.