Richard Rosenblatt
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand MediaRichard M. Rosenblatt is our co-founder and has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, since our inception in 2006. In March 2004, Mr. Rosenblatt joined Intermix Media, Inc., an Internet marketing company that owned MySpace, Inc., a social networking website, and served as Intermix Media's Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of MySpace from 2004 until Intermix Media and its MySpace subsidiary were sold to News Corporation in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Rosenblatt founded iMALL, Inc., a provider of web tools to build e-commerce stores and transact commerce over the Internet, in 1994 and served as iMALL's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was sold to Excite@Home, a cable-based Internet provider, in 1999. Mr. Rosenblatt also served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of drkoop.com, Inc., a provider of healthcare products, services and content, from 2000 to 2001. drkoop.com, Inc., filed for protection under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in December 2001. Mr. Rosenblatt currently serves on the board of directors of The FRS Company, and previously served as the Chairman of the board of directors of iCrossing, Inc., from 2006 until it was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2010. Mr. Rosenblatt was named the USC Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and was recently named as a runner-up in Fortune's list of Smartest CEOs in technology. Mr. Rosenblatt holds a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in Political Science.
Mr. Rosenblatt brings over 15 years of leadership experience running Internet-based technology and e-commerce companies to his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Additionally, Mr. Rosenblatt's significant industry experience and management acumen serve as a critical component in leading our board of directors. Mr. Rosenblatt is a serial entrepreneur who has demonstrated a proven ability to grow leading edge start-up companies, such as iMALL, Intermix Media and MySpace into successful ventures prior to their respective acquisitions.