Vinny Lingham

Current

• Investor & Board Member at Skyrove
• CEO at Yola

Past

• Angel investor & Advisor at Chesscube
• Chief Executive Officer at Synthasite
• Director & Shareholder at Quirk eMarketing

• Founder & Chief Executive Officer at incuBeta.com
• Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Clicks2Customers, Inc.
• PPC Department Manager at Osiris Trading
• Business Analyst at Dimension Data (PLC)
• Business Analyst at Commerce One
• E-Commerce Project Manager (Contract) at Johnnic e-Ventures

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Education

• Damelin
• Gordon Institute of Business Science
• Unisa

• University of Cape Town (UCT)

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Vinny Lingham’s Summary

Currently CEO of Yola.com - an Internet startup focusing on User Generated Content and website publishing.

Vinny Lingham’s Specialties:

Internet Marketing, Internet Strategy, Search Engine Marketing, Pay Per Click, Web 2.0, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Inspiration Management.

Vinny Lingham’s Experience

• Investor & Board Member

  Skyrove

  (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  WiFi HotSpot Provider

• CEO

  Yola

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• Angel investor & Advisor

  Chesscube

  (Internet industry)

  January 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 8 months)

• Chief Executive Officer

  Synthasite

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — March 2009 (2 years 1 month)

• Director & Shareholder

  Quirk eMarketing

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 6 months)

• Founder & Chief Executive Officer

  incuBeta.com

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

  June 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  Founder & CEO for an Online Marketing & Technology Company with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London and Los Angeles.

• Founder & Chief Executive Officer

  Clicks2Customers, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  Clicks2Customers is a performance marketing provider in the Paid Search marketing arena. With a keyword portfolio of over 30m keywords, we are able to drive massive amounts of traffic for our merchant partners. We drive in excess of $100m in annual sales for our partners through paid search engines.

• PPC Department Manager

  Osiris Trading

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 8 months)

  Ran the entire Pay Per Click marketing department for Slickstreet Marketing's agent's Osiris Trading. Managed massive PPC budgets on Overture, Findwhat & all the major PPC engines.

• Business Analyst

  Dimension Data (PLC)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2001 — October 2001 (9 months)

  Performed General Business Analysis work for Didata's subsidiary, Miraculum who were an Oracle Software ASP.

• Business Analyst

  Commerce One

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2000 — February 2001 (5 months)

  Created Business Plans & Strategy surrounding the launch of the local (South Africa) online auction (B2B) business unit.

• E-Commerce Project Manager (Contract)

  Johnnic e-Ventures

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Online Media industry)

  March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)

  Sold previous company to Johnnic, worked on 6 Month contract to assist in deployment of technology and business case.

Vinny Lingham’s Education

• Damelin

  National Certicate, Project Management (HC Proj M) , Project Management , June 2002 — December 2002

• Gordon Institute of Business Science

  Negotiation 2002 — 2002

• Unisa

  Honours , E-Commerce , January 2001 — December 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Finance
  Marketing
  Systems & Technology
  Entrepreneurship
  Strategy

• University of Cape Town (UCT)

  B.Com , Information Systems , February 1997 — November 1999

Additional Information

Vinny Lingham’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Vinny Lingham’s Interests:

Chess, Technology, Innovation, World of Warcraft, Web 2.0, AJAX, Web Applications, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Internet, Gym, Swimming, Rowing

Vinny Lingham’s Groups:

Mensa, SEMPO, Society of Industry Leaders (S&P), GLG, Yahoo Affiliate Advisory Board, Endeavor, Wharton Business School Forum, Richemont Group

•    Mensa
•    Endeavor
•    TEDx San Francisco Bay Area
•    Heavy Chef Project
•    Skyrove Community
•    Paid Search Specialists - Clicks2Customers
•    Endeavor South Africa

Vinny Lingham’s Honors:

incuBeta.com (& Subsidiaries) has won the following awards:

CJ Horizon Award for Innovation 2004
CJ UK Award for Innovation 2006
Horizon Award for Global Vision 2006
Endeavor Entrepreneur 2006
Top ICT Young Entrepreneur in Africa 2006
Overall Winner - Technology Top 100 Awards 2006
Business Day Technology Top 100 Company Award (Top 30 Finalist) - 2004
Business Day Technology Top 100 Winner - Most Promising Emerging Enterprise - 2005

Vinny Lingham’s Contact Settings

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