About Us

• Jack Porter, Founder & CEO

  Mr. Porter is a 7 time CEO and has extensive experience in social networking and social media. Three of his companies have provided advanced computing technology into the Pharmaceutical industry and in 2007 was recognized as "One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Industry" by PharmaVoice Magazine. Mr. Porter is also currently a Venture Partner at The Entrepreneur Fund.
  
  Mr. Porter is an industry speaker and frequent contributor to magazines such as eWeek, Information Week, and CIO Magazine. His popular blog Hightechexec is one of the top blogs on MSNBCs Newsvine.
  
  Mr. Porter enjoys flying, scuba, skiing, and backpacking. He is also a martial arts enthusiast and studies Kempo, Akita, Brazilian Jiu Jutsu, and boxing. He has been very happily married to Susie Porter for 27 years and had two daughters, Becca and Katie.

• Fred Davis, Co-Founder and Cheif Strategy Officer

  Fred has a long string of publishing and technology successes. Fred was on the founding teams of a number of startups including Wired, CNET and Ask Jeeves. Prior to that Fred was a top executive at Ziff-Davis Publishing where he served as editor of PC Magazine, PC Week, MacUser, and A+, as well as running and leading the industry-leading product testing laboratories at those publications.
  
  Fred has been named one of the most influential people in the industry by several publications in both the U. S. and Japan, and is listed in Who's Who in America. He has been widely quoted in publications such as Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and the Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared on many radio and television programs, including NPR's "All Things Considered," "CBS Evening News," and "ABC News."

• Lisa Padilla, Vice President of Marketing

  Lisa Padilla has been providing digital marketing and media training. In addition, I have offered services on key business aspects related to digital marketing, media and publishing. Ideal clients: publishing entities, media and technologies, marketing or media principal decision makers, agency professionals and folks on the brand side seeking such professional development individually or as a team.
  
  Executive Mindshare provides customized business news and social networks centered around specific industries. More about me: Lisa is Vice President of Marketing for Executive Mindshare, handling marketing operations, campaign design and budgets and responsible for community building. Lisa has run past pursuits through her own company, Communicate.io, in San Francisco for 10 years. This has entailed advising agencies, publishers and entrepreneurs on integrated media operations or services. Padilla’s 21-year path has led from print to digital, spanning publisher and agency-side. She first spent a few years covering emergent media in the SF Bay Area as a moonlighting, independent journalist obsessed with the broadening media landscape. Moving from print to the digital publishing realm during its most formative years, Padilla helped build Netscape, AOL, eFax, Netgear, Experian, FairIsaac, and Hewlett-Packard. Once on the agency side, she went on to hold top posts at FCB and Euro RSCG Circle. A highly regarded thought leader in social media and marketing topics, she contributes heavily to industry thought leadership, as regular speaker, writer and panelist; as well as editorial contributor to GIT, WeBlogTheWorld, Lisacast, and others. She is a board member and co-founder of Grabbit.org, an open source project you can find on Github.com/grabbit. In her spare time, she is an active citizen journalist, blogger, an podcaster.