6.3.1 | Clickability Board of Directors
John Girard
Clickability, Inc. Founder and Chief Executive Officer
John Girard is the Founder and CEO of Clickability. Under his leadership, Clickability has grown from a garage-based dream of four Stanford graduates to become the most successful single-source provider of on demand Web Content Management (WCM) solutions for media and enterprises. The biggest names in publishing, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN Interactive, and Dwell Magazine, rely on Clickability’s on demand content management applications to deliver the news to millions of readers each day. As CEO of Clickability, John’s primary responsibilities are driving the strategic vision of the company, including developing product and partnership strategies and fundraising.
Eric Di Benedetto
Convergence Partners General Partner and Founder
Eric Di Benedetto has been a professional investor in software start-ups for the last two decades. The aggregate market capitalization of companies Eric sponsored and realized as an investor has reached several billion dollars. In addition to Clickability, some of his current investments include Amphire, Blue Chip Expert, BuzzLogic, ClairMail, Lending Club, Plastyc, RapLeaf and Xactly. Eric was profiled in Business Week ("Go West, Young Whiz"), in The European ("Where the Brains Drain"), and in The Red Herring ("Growing Wings").
Jeff Freund
Clickability, Inc. Founder and Chief Technology Officer
As Founder and CTO of Clickability, Jeff is responsible for the design and maintenance of the company's industry leading on demand Web Content Management (WCM) platform. An accomplished innovator, Jeff is the mastermind behind Clickability's cutting-edge approach to developing and deploying massively scalable publishing solutions. Before Clickability, Jeff served as Western U.S. head of technology for Network Software Associates. He is an expert in Unix and NT and has collaborated on Linux cluster-super computer projects at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ravi Mohan
Shasta Ventures Managing Director
Ravi is the co-founder and Managing Director of Shasta Ventures. Prior to his current endeavors, Mohan was a general partner at Battery Ventures where he led eight investments and served on the boards of 12 software and technology-enabled service companies.
Fergus O'Daly, Jr.
Fergus O'Daly Associates Managing Partner
Named by New York Magazine as one of the most influential people in building the Internet, Fergus brings extensive experience and leadership in advertising, marketing and Internet strategy to Clickability's board with more than 30 years in the communications business. Fergus is the managing partner of Fergus O'Daly Associates. An advertising industry veteran, O'Daly has spent years at the helm of some of the industry's most successful firms. In addition to his tenure with BBDO, Darcy and Bozell, O'Daly co-founded Poppe Tyson Advertising and was one of the original founders of DoubleClick.
