Company CEO
Glenn S. Meyers, 37, has grown Rare Medium, Inc. from 5 to 200
professionals and established a strong national presence for the
company through speaking engagements at major industry conferences
such as Red Herring's Venture Markets, Internet World and Fulcrum. He
has also appeared on national business television such as CNNfn and
CNBC. Mr. Meyers is regularly quoted and featured in many print and
online publications such as The New York Times, Fortune, Crain's New
York Business, Wired, and Silicon Alley Reporter. A recipient of
major industry awards, including; "Digital Media Masters" by
Advertising Age Magazine, Mr. Meyers is also a regular speaker on
the "INTERNET" educational circuit, including engagements at Harvard
Business School and the MIT Business Forum.
Prior to joining Rare Medium, he was President of Brookridge Capital
Management, an Internet venture capital firm. After graduating
college, Mr. Meyers founded his first company, American Cable
Products (ACP) in the data communication system integration business.
After leading the company to national prominence, which resulted in
the subsequent sale of ACP to a $2.0 billion NYSE competitor, Mr.
Meyers went on to serve as a principal, of several other
entrepreneurial emerging growth companies. Mr. Meyers holds a BS
from the University of Florida School of Business Administration where he was a letterman and scholarship athlete. He is married with
three children and lives in Greenwich, CT.
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Board of Directors
Jeffrey M. Killeen
Steven Winograd
Richard T. Liebhaber
*Mr. Killeen is the COO of barnesandnoble.com, a leading E-commerce
company (http://www.barnesandnoble.com). He is also responsible for
the catalog and direct mail business of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Before
joining barnesandnoble.com, Mr. Killeen served as president and CEO
of Pacific Bell Interactive Media. Prior to that, Mr. Killeen spent
17 years at Dun & Bradstreet. He has also served on the Board of
Advisors of Hot Wired.
*Mr. Winograd is a Senior Managing Director and Group Head of the
Financial Buyers Group of Bear Stearns. Steven Winograd has 17 years
of experience in a diverse range of investment and merchant banking
disciplines. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 1994, Mr. Winograd held
a number of positions that included general partner of the Blackstone
Group, where he managed the firm's $800 million merchant banking
fund. Mr. Winograd also served as Managing Director in the Mergers
and Acquisitions Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Winograd
has successfully closed over 130 investment banking financing and M&A
transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $25 billion
*Mr. Liebhaber has held management and executive positions at
companies such as IBM and MCI Communications, where he was on the
Board of Directors and the Management Committee with founder Bill
McGowan, Vice Chairman Orville Wright, and President Bert Roberts.
Liebhaber was given the responsibility of architecting, engineering,
constructing, and maintaining MCI's network and its operational
management information infrastructures. In addition, he was
responsible for business development, strategy management, and
managed the acquisition and integration of Telecom USA. Mr. Liebhaber
also serves on the board of Qwest Communications (Nasdaq: QWST), the
leading multimedia communication company building an Internet
Protocol (IP) fiber network for the 21st century.
Mr. Liebhaber has over 40 years of experience including 30 years at
IBM where he was the Director of Business Policy and Development. In
that position he was responsible for IBM's new business development
activities, the establishment of internal Independent Business Units
and IBM's contractual relationships with customers.
In February 1984, Mr. Liebhaber represented IBM in the establishment
of a joint venture company with CBS and Sears to develop consumer
home information services, a venture that subsequently became
Prodigy. Liebhaber served on the board of Directors of Prodigy from
its inception on December 31, 1993.
In November 1984, Liebhaber accepted an assignment as Senior Vice
President at SBS (Satellite Business Systems) a joint venture company
between IBM, Atena and COMSAT.
Liebhaber has also been a consulting Managing Director at Veronis,
Suhler & Associates, the New York media merchant banking firm. He
serves on the Board of Directors for Qwest Communications
International, Inc., a multimedia communications company building a
high capacity, Internet Protocol (IP)-based fiber optic network for
the 21st century and Alcatel Network Systems, a world leader in
telecommunications systems and equipment. Mr. Liebhaber also serves
on the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York,
and the Washington Performing Arts Society.
Additionally, Mr. Liebhaber is a member of the Executive Committee of
Abilene Internet 2 project at the University of Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), a consortium of 130 US
Universities
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