Our Advisory Board

David Cooperstein, Chief Marketing Officer, Burst Media

David joined Burst in 2007 as Chief Marketing Officer. While at Burst, he has been responsible for marketing, business development and strategy for one of the first online ad networks.

He has spent the bulk of his career in strategic marketing and consulting roles, and has been involved in strategy related to the Internet since the early 1990s. He joined Burst Media from Boston-based social networking and social media site Gather.com. David was a part of the founding team of Gather as Vice President of Content Development and Editor in Chief. At Gather he set the guidelines for community management and crafted initial partnerships with content providers.

Prior to Gather, David was with Forrester Research, Inc. as the Research Director for both the Retail and Telecom industries from 1996 to 2002. David also held strategy and marketing positions at Northwest Airlines and Booz, Allen and Hamilton. David holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University. In his spare time, he makes sure he eats right as chef of the household. His motto for food is "Butter is my greatest friend and worst enemy."

Kate Delhagen, General Manager of US Running, Nike

Kate Delhagen is General Manager of US Running at Nike. In this role Kate oversees product, marketing, sales, operations, and retail execution for the the US Running business.

Prior to Nike, Kate was the VP of Retail Research and Consulting at Forrester Research, and VP of Business Development and co-founder at Lucy.com, a women's apparel retailer recently acquired by VF Corp. Earlier in her career Kate was Group Product Manager at Starwave (launching ESPN.com, Outside.com, and other web sites), Marketing Director for Backpacker magazine and an editor at Runner's World magazine.

Kate is a board member of The Oregon Leukemia and Lymphoma Society LS, and is active in a variety of Princeton University alumni programs

Barnaby Dorfman, Founder and CEO, Foodista.com

Barnaby Dorfman is founder and CEO of Foodista.com, a Seattle-based food and cooking Internet startup.

Barnaby has been an entrepreneur and executive in the consumer Internet space for over a decade. After Amazon.com acquired Bibliofind.com in 1999, where he was general manager, Barnaby led a team to define new product categories, including the Amazon Gourmet Food Store. During his 7 years at Amazon, other key roles included vice president of A9.com, the search technology division, and director at the Internet Movie Database subsidiary, where he created IMDbPro.com. More recently, Barnaby was Chief product officer at startups Peerflix.com and Kyte.tv.

Barnaby graduated magna cum laude with a BS in international business from California State University and earned an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Jason Gracilieri, Co-Founder, Former Director of Marketing and Operations at Sconex.com

Jason is a Boston-based technology entrepreneur most recently co-founding, and serving as Director of Marketing and Operations for Sconex.com, a social networking site for high school students. Jason oversaw customer acquisition and management at the company, growing the service to over 1MM registered users before its acquisition by Alloy in March of 2006.

Prior to Sconex, Jason was co-founder and President of Applied Reason and Technology, a software company providing products to capture, manage and search unstructured information. Before Applied, Jason worked as a Consultant at Monitor Group and a Communications Engineer at SpaceDev where he developed technology to support satellite communications via the Internet.

Jason holds an Electrical and Systems Engineering degree and a Masters of Engineering Management from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.

Tom Putnam, Former President and Chairman, MARKEM Corporation

Tom has been a long-time leader of innovation, quality and reliability at MARKEM Corporation, (now markem-imaje) a world-leader in product identification and traceability solutions. He led the reinvention of the company as it moved from contact-based printing machines into fully digital systems, software and services.

Before retiring in 2006, Tom worked at MARKEM for thirty-eight years, working in all functional areas of the company and eventually rising to be President before age 40.

Tom has also been a long-time champion of the arts. He is a member of the board and past President of the MacDowell Colony, an artist residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and board member and past Chairman of the Business Committee for the Arts.

Dr. Benjamin Ruedlinger, EVP and VP of Engineering, Wistia

Dr. Benjamin Ruedlinger is currently EVP and VP of Engineering at Wistia, Inc., a provider of software as a service solutions for business video. Previously, he was CTO of social media platform Top Ten Sources acquired by MeeVee, Inc in June 2007. In addition, he founded the algorithms based blog tracking service, Blogniscient, which Top Ten Sources acquired in June of 2006.

Formerly, Ben served as Director of Tracking and Fusion Technologies at BAE Systems where he led software-based development programs for DARPA.

Ben received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.