Ari M. Brandt

Linkstorm Corp. operates as a advertising technology company. It provides new approaches to online marketing, e-commerce, publishing, and social networking. The firm's hyper linking system enhances the performance of online advertising, e-commerce, and online publishing by overlaying cascading menus onto various kinds of hyperlink and ad units. It offers Banner Xpander that enhances various banner ads with navigational menu overlays that display on mouse roll over, which allows users to instantly access a multitude of advertiser information from one ad unit; and Linkstorm Portable Gateway, a package of topical links that can be distributed anywhere on the web to content and marketing partners, community/social networking sites, and bloggers, including viral distribution by end users. The company was founded by David Sidman in August 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Yahoo!, Inc. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SmartMoney provided online financial publishing services. The firm, through its website, provided tools and worksheets for financial planning, market analysis and data visualization. Its licensing group enabled clients to use the site's content and interactive tools for their own education and communication programs while its custom solutions group provides custom publishing and communications services. SmartMoney was founded in 1992 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

MediaBrix, Inc. operates a social media advertising platform. Its platform lets brands create ads that run via social games, Facebook, and other social networks. The firm also plugs into the application programming interfaces (APIs) of social networks and shows the ads during natural breaks in the action of apps and social games, like when players complete tasks or reach new levels. The company was founded by Ari Brandt and Jay Drago in May 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Condé Nast Entertainment, Inc. develops film, television, and premium digital video programming. The firm's portfolio include Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork and Backchannel. The company was founded by Conde Montrose Nast and Pat Connolly in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

DoubleClick, Inc. provided digital marketing technology and services. The company's products are being used by its clients for ad serving, rich media, video, mobile, search and affiliate marketing purposes. DoubleClick was founded in 1996 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners provides marketing and advertising services. It includes logo development, design, packaging, direct mail, collateral, interactive, multimedia and website applications & development. The company clients include Verizon Super Pages, Liberty Mutual and the Target Corporation. The company was founded in 1987 by Richard Kirshenbaum & Jonathan Bond and is headquartered in New York, NY.