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Brian Smiga

*** ***** *********, ******** *********, NJ 07716 ******@*****.***

917-***-**** cell, 732-***-**** home office www.linkedin.com/in/smiga

Summary

. Mission: Drive rapid-growth digital transformations for large brands.

. 24 Years Experience. Product Management, Marketing and Business

Development Professional who develops large-scale, long-term products and

relationships.

. Most recently at Smilebox, built the Digital Media, Retail & OEM partner

business in NA & EU resulting in 125% Y/Y increase in partner revenue &

installs.

. Developed long-term, large-scale new business with HP, Sandisk, 3M,

Walmart, Costco, SamsClub, Bestbuy, CVS, Walgreens, Meijer, Hallmark,

Apple, IBM, Microsoft, aol, etc.

. Within a year of hire, sold ExchangePath to CMGi for 700% return to

investors.

Expertise

. Agile Product Development & Management (both Consumer & Enterprise).

. Digital Media, Retail, OEM, & Go-to-Market Specialist.

. Marketing, Business Development, Product Strategy and Operations.

. Creative, Persuasive, Pragmatic Team Builder and Leader.

. Co-author of four US Internet Software Patents.

Experience

VP Partner Development & Retail at Smilebox, Redmond (Consumer & B2C

Internet)

September 2009 - April 2010

. Developed partner and retail development strategy and pipeline for NA &

EU.

. Closed contracts that increased partner revenue and installs by 125% Y/Y.

. Transitioned Preclick's large client base - Walmart, Sams, Costco,

Walgreens, HP.

CEO at Preclick (B2B2C Internet Software)

www.preclick.com/company/partners.php

October 2001 - August 2009 (Sold company to Smilebox)

. Licensed and shipped more than 100,000,000 copies of the Preclick-powered

software for HP, Sandisk, Wal-Mart, Costco, Walgreens, Meijers, 3M, and

others, in 22 languages.

. Built and Established Agile XP Development with remote teams in India and

Seattle.

. ShutterBug Magazine Top Photo Software 2003. TED Debuts 2003 and 2004.

Demo 2007.

CEO at 3Path, New York & Tel Aviv (B2B Internet Service)

December 1999 - October 2001

. Recruited to lead this Israel-incubated company, a Priority Document

Delivery Service.

. Securely delivered large, high-priority files with alerts, instead of

email attachments or FTP.

. Customers included Viacom. Sold to Cadmus Publishing. Launched at Demo

2000.

SVP Marketing & Bus Dev at Exchange Path, a CMGI Company (B2C Internet) NYC

July 1998 - December 1999

. In first six months, obtained worldwide license to MasterCard and signed

30 digital media deals with Newscorp, Hoovers, DowJones, EdgarOnline,

Institutional Investor, etc.

. Within a year, led sale of company to CMGi for 700% return to investors.

. Led product definition, marketing and business development.

. Launched at PC Forum 1999.

Co-Founder & President at Actioneer (Enterprise Collaboration Software)

SF, CA

March 1994 - June 1998

. Co-founded with Getting Things Done author, David Allen

(www.davidallenco.com ).

. Co-authored 4 US Internet Software patents. Licensed to IBM, Lotus, Palm,

Dragon.

. Launched Demo 97. Won Best Product, Palm 1997 & Best Product, Lotus Notes

1998.

. Secure natural language interface to access, search and write to e-

services and databases and to exchange action objects.

www.actioneer.com/demos.html

Co-founder & President at Portfolio Software (Consumer, Small Business)

Cupertino, CA

December 1988 - March 1994 (Sold to DaytoDay, 1994)

. Developed award-winning Dynodex, (Best Mac Contact manager 1992-94) and

Dynopage, (Best Utility 1992-94), for Mac, Windows and Newton.

. Licensed to Apple, Microsoft, AOL, GE, Prodigy, Filofax, Day-Timer,

DayRunner.

Developer & Trainer at Booz & Co., NYC (Management Consulting)

December 1986 - December 1988

. Developed six-course Mac curriculum for consulting firm, trained 600

partners, MBAs.

. Trained my replacement trainer. Attended MBA Strategy training.

Software Developer, Sole Proprietor (Enterprise Software Development &

Training)

January 1985 - December 1986

. Developed multi-user relational database systems for McGraw-Hill, Booz &

Co,

Continental Can, General Cinema, and other corporate clients.

. Trained programmers and corporations on Apple Macintosh platform.

Education

Trinity College, Dublin

M Phil, Irish Literature, graduated first in class.

Swarthmore College

BA, Religion/English

Activities and Societies: Guttman Scholar. Roothbert Fellow for graduate

studies.

Varsity Lacrosse, Wrestling, Fencing. Theater Director and Manager. Student

Counsel.

Studied Theater with Lee Devin, author of Artful Making

References & patents available on request or at www.linkedin.com/in/smiga

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