SmartBrief : About SmartBrief : Management Team

Senior Management Team

Rick Stamberger

President & CEO

Rick Stamberger is president and CEO of SmartBrief. He has spent much of his career at the intersection of business, public policy and the not-for-profit sector.

Before his work at SmartBrief, Stamberger was a founding partner of Quest Partners LLC, a management consultancy based in Boston. Quest developed the wireless industry's first online information service. He also served as executive vice president and a director of a Washington, D.C.-based technology firm owned by nine cable television companies and NBC. Rick began his career in Washington with the National Cable Television Association.

Rick served as a White House Fellow in 1984-85 in the Office of the Vice President. In 2008-2009 he was a member of President-elect Obama’s Transition Project, serving as an agency lead for the Executive Office of the President.

Rick is chairman of the board of directors of the Van Eck Funds. He is also an independent trustee of the Van Eck Market Vectors ETF Trust. He has been an active board member of numerous nonprofit organizations and was executive producer of "John Gardner, Uncommon American," a documentary for public television that aired in 2001. He is a graduate of Williams College and the Harvard Business School.

Jennifer McNally

Vice President, Editorial Content

Jennifer McNally leads SmartBrief's editorial department, with responsibility for the content in SmartBrief's portfolio of publications. In this role, Jennifer manages relationships with SmartBrief's association partners, while also overseeing the team responsible for the high-quality editorial products published on a daily basis.

Prior to her current role, Jennifer held a variety of positions with SmartBrief, including editor, copy editor, and copy desk chief.

Before joining SmartBrief in 2002, Jennifer worked primarily in traditional print media, both as a news editor supervising the copy desks of two suburban Washington, D.C., area newspapers and as a copy editor for several newspapers in upstate New York.

Jennifer holds a B.S. in political science from Elmira College.

Matthew J. Mantey

Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Matt directs all revenue and external marketing efforts of the company serving the member organizations, advertisers and subscribers.

Before joining SmartBrief, Matt held senior positions in Omnicom. As SVP, digital marketing for Fleishman Hillard, Matt led a multidisciplinary team focused on guiding clients through the intersecting worlds of advertising, communication and technology. Matt led the firm's global relationship with the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative.

Inside of Ominicom, Matt also served as a catalyst across agencies blending media planning and buying with social media practices; for both audience research and media investment allocation decisions. For the past year, he has been a driving force behind strengthening digital and social solutions for Omnicom in mapping a joint service model between agencies.

Throughout his career, Matt has directed clients and staff in digital media, including enterprise Web planning, e-commerce methods, user-experience design, customer-relationship management, Web development principles, enterprise social media strategy, as well as research, data analytics and strategic planning.

Before he worked at Omnicom, Matt directed his own interactive consultancy, Capital Interactive Systems, and worked with a range of clients on digital transformational strategies. Besides other management positions with firms such as WhittmanHart Interactive, Matt started his interactive career at 24/7 Media, one of the first online advertising networks in 1999.

Matt is a graduate of North Carolina State University.

Zachariah Mully

Chief Nerd Officer

Zack oversees SmartBrief's technology department. He has the unique distinction of being the most tenured employee at SmartBrief – he started at the company in February 2000 as its fifth employee. With his strong systems operations focus, SmartBrief has never missed a day of publishing because of technology outages.

As the titular head of the technology department, he's turned on by the big data movement, nosql, graph databases and undocumented system procedures.

Before joining SmartBrief, Zack had a brief stint as the failure analyst for a large nuclear waste remediation system.

He graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Chinese.

Bryan Otte

Vice President, Human Resources & Administration

Bryan is responsible for driving SmartBrief's human resource strategies and programs, with the ultimate goal to recruit and develop SmartBrief's world-class, diverse workforce. In addition, Bryan also is responsible for SmartBrief's administrative functions, including procurement, real estate, accounting, facilities and business contingency planning.

Bryan began his career with Andersen Consulting and has held senior management positions with Discovery Channel and Fast Company magazine, where he was a member of the launch team.

Bryan holds an MBA and a B.S. in marketing from the University of Colorado.

Joseph M. Caruso

Vice President, Product

Joe oversees the development and management of SmartBrief's products. He also manages the various Corporate Initiatives that SmartBrief implements to achieve its annual goals.
Before joining SmartBrief, Joe's career included equal doses of strategy consulting and entrepreneurial ventures. He ran the consulting operations for two firms, Gen3 Partners and Harbor Research. His focus was to assist companies achieve rapid growth by leveraging technology and developing effective innovation processes.

Joe also has run two venture-funded start-ups as CEO including TeleManager Technologies, a communication software and services company focused on pharmacy automation market and MediaBrains, Inc. At MediaBrains he developed and executed the strategy and operating plan for an 80-person application software company providing online directory and catalog solutions for web publishers and advertisers.
Joe is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his Master in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Board of Directors

Thomas E. Wheeler

Chairman of the Board

For three decades, Tom Wheeler has worked at the forefront of telecommunications policy and business development. He served as president of the National Cable Television Association from 1979 to 1984 and as CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association from 1992 to 2004. He also held the title of CEO at several technology startups, including the first company to offer high-speed delivery of data to home computers and the first digital video-delivery service. Tom is a co-founder of SmartBrief Inc.

Tom chairs the UN Foundation's mHealth Alliance and the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. He sits on the boards of Core Capital portfolio companies Roundbox, UpdateLogic, LimeLife, Twisted Pair Solutions and GoMobo, and on the boards of public companies EarthLink and TNS.

Tom was appointed by Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and, more recently, led the Obama-Biden Transition for the federal departments and agencies dealing with science, technology, space and the arts.

He is the only person who has been chosen for both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Industry Hall of Fame. Both organizations have recognized him for being among the most influential individuals in their industries.

Wheeler is the author of "Take Command: Leadership Lessons of the Civil War" (Doubleday, 2000) and "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War" (HarperCollins, 2006).

He is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the recipient of its Alumni Medal for national and international career achievement.

Richard D. Stamberger

President and Chief Executive Officer

Daniel F. O'Brien

Chief Financial Officer

Dan O'Brien is the chief financial officer and co-founder of SmartBrief. He is also a partner and co-founder of Quest Partners LLC, a management consultancy based in Boston. Since 1988, he has assisted executives in service industries to develop differentiation strategies, assess the performance of key corporate processes, and design and lead organization-wide change efforts.

O'Brien also serves on the central committee of LabelsAreForJars.org, a non-profit service initiative focused on feeding the hungry in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Steven Price

Member of the Board

Steven Price is a Senior Managing Director of Centerbridge Partners, L.P. Steven joined Centerbridge in April 2006. Prior to that, he was a general partner of Spectrum Equity, which he joined in April 2004. Previously he was president and CEO of LiveWire Capital, an investment and management group that focused on the media, telecom and IT industries. Prior to that, Steven served as president and CEO of PriCellular Corporation, a publicly traded cellular telephone company. From October 2001 through May 2003, Steven was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Spectrum, Space and Communications.

Steven also practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, investment banking at Goldman Sachs & Co. and acted as special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the START Talks for the U.S. State Department. He is on the Board of Directors of The Foundation for the National Archives and UJA-Federation of NY; serves on the Brown University Advisory Board for Computing and IT and serves as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Science Board.

Steven earned a B.A. from Brown University, graduated magna cum laude, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and holds a JD from Columbia University.

Gregory C. Simon

Member of the Board

Gregory C. Simon

Greg Simon is senior vice president, worldwide policy, at Pfizer. Simon leads a global team of professionals focused on worldwide government policy, science policy, economic policy and research, and international policy. Simon also serves as an adviser to the CEO in coordinating the company's efforts on health care reform. Greg came to Pfizer after a distinguished career in health care and technology policy.

He has served as a senior staff member in both houses of Congress, as the chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, as a successful policy consultant and, most recently, as the president of FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, a center of the Milken Institute. In October 2008, Nature Medicine named Greg one of 10 influential people to watch in biomedical policy and noted that he is among a "handful of influential people who quietly help keep the wheels of biomedical science turning."

Greg serves as a trustee of the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the Leadership Council of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Montage Group, which advises its health industries practice. He chairs the Policy and Ethics Advisory Board for Navigenics, a genetic testing company.

A native of Arkansas, Greg received a B.A. in history from the University of Arkansas and his law degree from the University of Washington. Greg lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Margo Reid, and their two children.

SmartBrief Board of Advisors

Frederick Moses

Frederick Moses has more than 25 years of financial and operations experience in leading media companies, including Hanley Wood, LLC, Phillips International, Cowles Media and Elsevier Business Press. Fred is currently the chief operating officer at Hanley Wood, one of the 10 largest business-to-business media companies in the United States and the premier business-to-business media company that serves the residential and commercial construction industries. He is the senior executive responsible for information technology, production, manufacturing, distribution, facilities, direct marketing and inside sales, human resources, overall business operations and acquisition integration.

At Phillips International, a $300+ million consumer publishing, consumer products, business-to-business information and conference company, his responsibilities included the company's Internet Ventures, working with both the consumer and business divisions, as well as CFO of the business information division. Fred was a member of parent company senior leadership team; a member of executive committee; and a key finance executive for the company's strategic alternatives/sale process.

Prior to Phillips, Fred spent six years at Cowles Media Company, a $500+ million Midwest, multidivisional media company with daily newspapers, consumer products, book publishing and business-to-business information divisions. He served as finance director, and then CFO, of the book division, Fred's corporate responsibilities included internal and external reporting, tax, planning and controllership activities for the overall company as well as strategic assessments for acquisitions and divestitures.

Fred began his publishing experience as vice president and controller at Elsevier Business Press, the $300+ million U.S. holding company for Elsevier now merged with Reed Business Group. Fred spent five years with Deloitte & Touche, is a certified public accountant and graduated magna cum laude from Rider University, Lawrenceville N.J.

Susan Robertson

Susan Robertson is the chief marketing and communications officer at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership. She leads a wide variety of programs including membership, member services, marketing, design and production, communications, publication, editorial and professional credentialing. Her responsibilities include the editorial and design of production of the award- winning Associations Now Magazine, as well as overseeing the branding and image development for the association and its subsidiaries.

Prior to joining ASAE, Susan was the vice president of marketing and communications for U.S. Office Products, a multibillion dollar business products company, owning brands including Mail Boxes, Etc. and Blue Star Group. As a senior marketing and communications professional, she was the executive director of the Office Products Dealer Alliance of the Washington- based National Office Products Association. Prior to this, she was the executive director of the National Dealer Alliance, a national marketing and technology network for entrepreneurs in the contract office furnishings industry. Susan began her career with Ethan Allen, Inc. as part of the education and development staff of their corporate offices in Danbury, Conn.

She is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of Youth Service America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting service opportunities for young people throughout the world. Susan received her B.S. from the University of Maryland in 1978.

Scott Kurnit

Scott Kurnit is currently an investor and strategic adviser to technology and media companies. As founder, chairman and CEO of About, Inc. (currently owned by The New York Times Co.) he helped the company move to a public market value exceeding $1.5 billion and the fifth most visited of all Internet sites.

He has been involved in many firsts, including four patents. Scott led the team that put the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID.

He was president of Showtime Event Television when it generated the largest one- night gross in the entertainment business, and aired the first rock concert from the former Soviet Union. Scott has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, MCI and Sears. He has been inducted into the American Advertising Federation's Hall of Achievement and won the prestigious Vanguard Award from the National Cable Television Association.

Scott currently sits on the boards of Brightcove, Dotomi, Goodmail Systems and advises Black Arrow, Critical Mention, Digital RailRoad, Flock, Found Value, Sphere, Verid and Wink. He is also a trustee of the Mianus River Gorge Preserve, the founding land project of the Nature Conservancy and the first National Natural History Landmark.

Bill Bellows

Bill Bellows has more than 25 years of executive leadership, management, operational and marketing experience in professional services, information technology, e-Commerce and consumer technology products. He has held key leadership positions in emerging-growth companies providing strategic management insight through various stages including equity investment, strategic alliances and market positioning.

He has served as a strategic consultant to executive management in large, publicly traded corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Xilinx, Intel and Iomega. Bill was the co-founder of Copithorne & Bellows, one of the most successful global marketing consulting and public relations firms in technology. He served as president and COO of Veritect, Inc. -- the managed security services subsidiary of Veridian, a publicly traded homeland security company now owned by General Dynamics -- and played a major role in the successful divestiture of the company. Bill also served as chief marketing officer for RedCreek Communications, helping reposition the company for a successful sale and was the chief marketing officer for Simplexity, Inc., helping to build strong brand awareness for the company while playing a major role in raising venture and strategic financing.

Bill serves as a board member and advisory board member for a number of early- stage companies and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.

John Walcott

John Walcott has worked for McClatchy, formerly Knight Ridder, Inc., since 1997. As Washington bureau chief, John directs more than 30 full-time employees in Washington, as well as 10 overseas bureaus in Baghdad, Beijing, Berlin, Cairo, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Moscow, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. His responsibilities include national, foreign and Washington news coverage in print and online, as well as information technology, capital and operating budgets and personnel.

John has been chief diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek magazine, national security correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and foreign and national editor of U.S. News & World Report, and he is an adjunct professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has served as senior counselor to a Defense Department commission on basic training in the military, and as a consultant to The Advisory Board Company in Washington, he prepared a report on leadership development and information technology in the U.S. military as part of a study for corporate clients of best practices in the field.

John has been the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the National Press Club Freedom of the Press Award and Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence, the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting and a National Headliner Award. With David C. Martin of CBS News, he co- authored "Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism" (New York, Harper & Row, 1988), and in 2005, Washingtonian magazine named him one of Washington's "50 best and most influential journalists."

John received a B.A. in English from Williams College in 1971.

Dirk Van Dongen

Dirk Van Dongen is president of the National Association of Wholesaler- Distributors, "the national voice of wholesale distribution." NAW is a federation of 100 national and 46 regional, state and local wholesaler-distributor associations representing more than 40,000 merchant wholesaler-distributor companies throughout the 50 states.

Dirk also serves as treasurer of the Wholesaler-Distributor Political Action Committee and president of the Distribution Research & Education Foundation.

In addition, he is past chairman of the Trade Association Liaison Council; co- chairman of The Product Liability Alliance, co-chairman of the Healthcare Equity Action League; and a past director of the American Tort Reform Association.

Glen L. Friedman

Glen L. Friedman, president and founder of Ideas & Solutions!, Inc. is a 25- year communications and media veteran. For more than 10 years, Ideas & Solutions! has specialized in providing leading and emerging companies with marketing/advertising development, strategic planning, competitive positioning and new business development. Additionally, Ideas & Solutions! provides strategic support and due diligence to private equity and venture capitalists firms when evaluating potential investments.

Prior to forming Ideas & Solutions! Inc., Glen was a successful executive in the communications industry. As vice president of marketing for DIRECTV, Glen was a key marketing decision-maker and strategic planner, who was critical in defining the pricing, packaging and marketing strategy for the launch of the most successful consumer electronic product ever, the 18" satellite dish.

Previously, Glen was the general manager of Century Cable where he directed all aspects of the business, including: technical operations, customer service, MIS, marketing, employee/labor relations and government affairs. As the vice president of marketing for Manhattan Cable (now Time Warner Cable) he led all marketing, promotion, sales, advertising and programming acquisition, accelerating the growth of one of the largest, most complex cable operations in the country.

Glen has a B.S., Management and Organizational Behavior from Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He also completed the Executive Financial Management Program, University of Denver, Denver. He serves as an Advisory Board member of the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club, and a board member of the Westside YMCA of Los Angeles. He is a member of CTAM, former president CTAM, NYC Chapter, and former vice president Mid-Atlantic CTAM.