Vanessa DiMauro

Current

Executive in Residence at Babson College
CEO and president at Leader Networks

Past

Vice President Strategy and Research at CXO Systems
Executive Director at Computerworld
Director at Cambridge Technology Partners

Director of Market Research at Bitstream
Online Community Researcher/Project Manager at Technical Education Research Center (TERC),

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Education

Boston College
Boston College

Recommended

18 people have recommended Vanessa

Connections

442 connections

Industry

Online Media

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Vanessa DiMauro’s Summary

A pioneer in business-to-business community building, Vanessa DiMauro has been a virtual community builder for more than fifteen years. With the advent of Web 2.0 and social networking, Vanessa founded Leader Networks, to specialize in working with companies to leverage technology for two-way communication and customer care.

Vanessa is recognized as a popular speaker and author on the topics of virtual communities, social networking and Web 2.0 for businesses. With a research background, Vanessa takes the approach of a cultural anthropologist to help businesses use social networking and virtual community building to get closer to their customers and delivery revenue and ROI.

Prior to founding Leader Networks, Vanessa co-founded CXO Systems and created the “Peer Visibility Network,” a private executive community helping senior executives better understand the web services movement. At Computerworld, Vanessa founded and ran Computerworld Executive Suite, a premier online membership organization of over 5,000 CIOs from large organizations. She has also worked for other forward-thinking organizations including Cambridge Technology Partners, and Technical Education Research Center (TERC), where she helped shape the role virtual communities play on the Web.

Women in Technology International (WITI) has named Vanessa one of Boston’s Most Influential Women in Technology and The Advisory Council (TAC) has chosen her as one of their Thought Leaders – world class experts who provide guidance on their topics of expertise.

Vanessa currently serves as an Executive-in-Residence at Babson College for the 2008-9 academic year. She has also taught Executive Education at UCLA – Anderson School, University of Miami, and University of Chicago. She has both a B.A. and a M.A. from Boston College.

email: vdimauro (at) leadernetworks.com

Vanessa DiMauro’s Specialties:

online communities & social networks; interactive marketing, market strategy and digital customer care, professional networks, social media, online community

Vanessa DiMauro’s Experience

Executive in Residence

Babson College

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2008 — Present (2 months)

MBA program
CEO and president

Leader Networks

(Online Media industry)

2005 — Present (3 years)

Founded and financed a company that provides online community, social networking and web 2.0 strategy consulting to organizations worldwide. We specialize in helping companies build online communities and social networking applications that support their business and customer objectives. Help clients create online customer care programs and launch new products and services through online marketing channels.

Clients include EMC, Lexis Nexis, Cognizant, SAP, Digital Influence Group, INmobile, Sermo and TowerGroup. Manage all phases of client delivery, contracts and strategic channel partnerships with tool vendors that provided software to support the social network implementations.
Vice President Strategy and Research

CXO Systems

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

2002 — 2005 (3 years)
Executive Director

Computerworld

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Director

Cambridge Technology Partners

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Catp; Management Consulting industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years)
Director of Market Research

Bitstream

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BITS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year)
Online Community Researcher/Project Manager

Technical Education Research Center (TERC),

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years)