Chairman & CEO Mochila
Greater New York City Area
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Benjamin Chen’s Summary
Benjamin Chen is a 20-year veteran of high tech startups. At Mochila, Benjamin is the Chairman and CEO responsible for all key organizational management and strategic initiatives. Prior to Mochila, Mr. Chen was a founder of AppGenesys, a leading managed services web hosting provider for Fortune 500 clients, partnered with Intel, Softbank, JP Morgan, where he was Chairman, CEO and CTO.
Previously, Mr. Chen was the CIO and CTO at iXL, a strategic e-business interactive agency. At iXL, he helped grow the company from 100 to 3,000 employees worldwide. During Mr. Chen's tenure, iXL was known for delivering innovative technology solutions to the F500, included a $50M contract with Delta Airlines and $100M contract with General Electric. Other key customers included AT&T, CheapTickets.com, FEDEX, Sony (AiBO Launch), Tickets.com, and WebMD. Mr. Chen was part of the executive management team that helped take iXL public in 1999.
Prior to iXL, Mr. Chen was also the CTO for Boxtop Interactive and Founder and CTO of Ironlight Digital. Mr. Chen also worked at CBS Studio Center, as a technologist working on some of the first convergence of prime time television content and the internet. Mr. Chen also produced the 1996 Emmy Awards Cybercast, demonstrating the world’s largest number of internet video streams that year. Mr. Chen has also served on the advisory/boards of Teralytics and Exodus/Digital Island, a Cable and Wireless Company. He received a B.S. from the University of Southern California and is an avid martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Benjamin Chen’s Specialties:
Online Advertising, Interactive Agency, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Software, Managed Hosting, Networking, eBusiness Consulting, fund raising, mergers & acquistions.
Benjamin Chen’s Experience
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Founder, Chairman & CEO
Mochila
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2001 — Present (7 years 9 months)
Mochila is a leader in premium online advertising and content syndication solutions. The Mochila network of sites uses a proprietary technology platform that meets the unique needs of content owners, publishers, and advertisers. Partners include The Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, Getty, Splash, WENN, Gannett, Tribune Company, Belo Corporation, Media General, Scripps, Hachette Filipacchi Media, Media News Group, Hearst Corporation, Greenspun Media Group, Rodale, AMI, MSNBC, CNET, and Topix. The world's largest content syndication network powered by an ad-based distribution model, Mochila helps content owners reach new markets, publishers build businesses, and advertisers reach highly engaged, quality audiences. In addition to its own ad sales team, Mochila has partnerships with a number of the world's leading ad networks as well as the sales teams of participating publishers. Mochila has operations in New York, San Francisco and Carlsbad, Calif.
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Founder, Chairman (CEO / CTO)
AppGenesys
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 8 months)
Founded leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) focused on delivering enterprise solutions for staging, testing, tuning, deploying, monitoring and scaling of complex web applications.
- Raised $50 Million from Softbank, JPMorgan, Flatiron, Intel, Inktomi, NeoCarta, Dynafund, Kelso & iXL .
- Raised $20 Million credit facility from Cisco, Dell, EMC, Oracle & Western Technology.
- Recruited CEO and full management team, helped grow company to 160+ people.
- Developed strategic relationships with, AboveNet, BEA, EMC, iXL, Intel Online Services, Mercury Interactive, Microsoft, Narus, Oracle, Rational Software, Teleglobe.
- Completed $10 Million acquisition of Mentora Inc.
- Completed $10 Million acquistion of iXL Hosting unit.
- Customers included Akamai, Budget, GE, Frito Lay, Kinzan, Finali, HotTopic, Small World Sports (The Sporting News), Transaffinity, WebMD. -
CIO / CTO
iXL
(Public Company; iixl; Internet industry)
February 1997 — January 2000 (3 years)
iXL was a public e-business services company (Now part of Microsoft, previously part of Aquantive, Avenue A Razorfish) that provided its clients with a single source for the strategy, design, and technology services required to identify, design, develop, and deploy eBusiness solutions for enterprise customers.
- Helped grow and manage the company from 100 to over 3,000 employees worldwide. iXL went public in 1999.
- Managed due diligence and IT infrastructure consolidation of over 30 acquisitions worldwide. (US, England, Germany, Italy, Spain)
- Conducted due diligence for iXL Ventures.
- Conducted due diligence for GE Capital on internet related investments.
- Lead and oversaw the build out of iXL Technical Operations Center, providing centralized Telco, WAN, messaging, intranet, accounting, back office applications and hosting/data center.
- Lead technologist on key accounts.($50MM Delta Airlines, $100MM General Electric, $200+MM Virgin Atlantic) -
Founder & CTO
Ironlight Digital
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1995 — February 1997 (2 years 2 months)
Created one of the first integrated full service interactive agencies (now owned by Publicis Groupe) specializing in online strategy, creative, design, implemenation and hosting of websites. Customers included Sony, Disney, CBS, Emmys.
