Jeff Stibel - Business

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Stibel is currently the Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. As an entrepreneur and business executive, Stibel has helped start and grow a number of companies and was listed as one of Business Week's "40 under 40." He was formerly the President and CEO of Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and was previously the CEO of Interland (NASDAQ: INLD). He also serves on the Board of Directors for Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL). He was General Manager and Senior Vice President of United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), which runs ISPs NetZero and Juno, and social networking site Classmates.com. He was the founder and CEO of Applied Cognition Labs, WorldWide MediaWorks (offeroutlet.com), SeaVista Development and Simpli, which is currently owned by ValueClick, (NASDAQ: VCLK). He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Web.com, EdgeCast, Autobytel, ThinMail, The Search Agency and Axon Labs. He also serves on the academic Boards of Brown University’s Entrepreneurship Program and Tufts University’s Leadership Center.

Stibel left graduate school to start Simpli, a search and marketing company that was sold to NetZero in 2001 and again to ValueClick in 2004. He started Simpli with professors from Brown University (James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss), MIT (Dan Ariely) and Princeton University (George A. Miller), as well as entrepreneurs David Landan, Peter Delgrosso and Carl Dunham. He later helped form United Online, a public company that acquired NetZero and Juno in 2001 and later bought Classmates.com. In 2005, he left United Online to become the CEO of Interland, a public company that later changed its name to Web.com.

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