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Board of Directors
Leonard P. Forman
Leonard P. Forman joined TechTarget's board of directors in 2007 after retiring
as executive vice president and chief financial officer of The New York Times
Company.
Previously he had been president and chief executive officer of The New York
Times Company Magazine Group, and senior vice president of corporate development,
new ventures and electronic businesses.
Prior to joining The New York Times Company, Forman worked in television,
online services, print media and advertising, including president and chief executive
officer of a Nynex/Newsday joint venture. He also held CEO and CFO positions
with several media associations and bureaus, and as senior vice president of
operations at Telemundo, Inc., a Spanish language television company, where he
was responsible for broadcast and network operations and affiliate relations.
Previously, he was director of corporate planning and a chief economist at
The New York Times Company, and a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York.
Forman also served as an adjunct professor of economics at Yale University
Graduate School of Management and an assistant professor of economics at Fordham
University Graduate School of Business. He holds a B.A. degree in economics from
Queens College, City University of New York and completed his Ph.D. dissertation
in economics at New York University.
In addition to TechTarget, Forman serves as a director of Wolters Kluwer,
a leading multinational publisher and information services company serving the
health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory,
and education sectors.
Jay Hoag
Jay Hoag is a founding general partner
of Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading
provider of growth capital to premier technology companies.
At TCV, Hoag is a member of the leadership team that
manages over $3.3 billion in assets. TCV has invested
in over 135 companies to achieve over 35 IPOs and
22 strategic sales or mergers.
As a director of TechTarget, Hoag
provides strategic guidance and leadership to the
company, drawing on his 22 years of experience in
the venture capital industry. He has been involved
with numerous TCV investments, including investments
in Ariba Technologies, Altiris, CacheFlow, C|NET,
Expedia, Fandango, Netflix and RealNetworks.
Prior to joining TCV, Hoag was a
managing director at Chancellor Capital Management,
where he spent more than 12 years as a technology-focused
venture capitalist and fund manager. From 1988 to
1994, he grew Chancellor Capital’s public technology
asset base from $20 million to over $250 million and
achieved industry-leading performance. In 1989, he
assumed sole responsibility for Chancellor Capital’s
private technology investments. In that capacity,
he invested over $113 million in 30 companies. Fifteen
of those companies, including Ascend Communications,
CompUSA, Intuit, Macromedia, NETCOM, PictureTel, Pure
Software and Sybase, went public during his tenure.
In addition to serving on TechTarget’s
Board of Directors, Hoag currently sits on the Boards
of Altiris, eLoyalty, Fandango, InPhonic and NetFlix.
Mr. Hoag is also on the Advisory Board of Champion
Ventures and the Investment Advisory Committee at
the University of Michigan. Hoag received a B.A. in
Economics and Political Science from Northwestern
University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Bruce
Levenson
Bruce Levenson is the Founder of
United Communications Group (UCG), one of the largest
privately held business information companies in the
United States. UCG has more than 700 employees nationwide
and offices in Maryland, Boston, New Jersey and Maine.
Mr. Levenson directs the firm's acquisition efforts,
having acquired more than 50 companies including a
division of McGraw Hill, a division of Bell Canada
and one public company.
Mr. Levenson is a principal of Atlanta
Spirit LLC, which is the majority owner of the NBA
Atlanta Hawks franchise and the NHL Atlanta Thrashers
franchise. Atlanta Spirit LLC also owns the operating
rights to the Philips Arena, the major sports and
entertainment venue in Atlanta. These assets were
purchased from Turner Broadcasting System in September
2003 as part of Time Warner's divestiture of non-strategic
business assets.
Mr. Levenson is a member of the
Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association (NEPA)
Hall of Fame and has served on the Boards of Newsletter
Association of America, I Have a Dream Foundation
and Hoop Dreams Foundation. Mr. Levenson holds a B.A.
in political science from Washington University and
a law degree from American University.
Roger
Marino
Roger Marino is a co-Founder and
former President of EMC Corporation, the leading provider
of enterprise information storage systems, software,
networks and services, with more than $4.44 billion
in annual revenues and 17,000 employees worldwide.
Marino was instrumental in EMC's growth, taking it
from start-up to its position as a dominant force
in the technology industry.
Marino has also pursued a number
of business ventures related to his lifelong interests
in technology, sports and theater. He is the former
owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team and is the
principal owner of the Worcester Ice Cats, a professional
minor-league hockey team. As the head of Revere Pictures,
Marino has served as the executive producer of a number
of commercially released films. He is the executive
producer of the Broadway revival of Gypsy, currently
enjoying a successful run in New York.
Marino graduated from Northeastern
University and sits on the University's Board of Trustees.
Alan
G. Spoon
Alan G. Spoon is a managing general partner of Polaris Venture Partners in its Boston office. He joined Polaris in May 2000 and has been part the firm since 1996 as an early advisor and initial investor. He focuses on investments in information technology, with emphasis on revenue-stage companies, digital media, and e-commerce. Spoon served as President of The Washington Post Company from 1993 to 2000. He was the company's Chief Operating Officer and was named a Director in 1991.
Spoon has more than 20 years of operating executive and investment experience. During his 18-year tenure with The Washington Post Company, he served as president, chief operating officer, board member, chief financial officer, president of Newsweek, head of newspaper marketing and head of corporate business development. The Washington Post Company has significant activities in newspapers, magazines, television, cable and educational markets (Kaplan), and Spoon was responsible for early stage technology investments in cellular, distance learning and educational software and information services (including Washingtonpost.com, BrassRing, Classified Ventures, WebTV and Exchange.com). Prior to The Washington Post, Spoon was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group, an international management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy.
In addition to TechTarget, Spoon represents Polaris as a director of ARPU, Art.com, LegalZoom, LRN, Phreesia, Silicon Optix, Inc., The HealthCentral Network, and AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (Weatherbug). Alan led Polaris’ investment in Matrics, Inc. (RFID) which was sold to Symbol Technologies. Alan recently served as director at Cushcraft Corporation (wireless antennae), which was recently sold to Laird Technologies. Outside Board seats include Danaher Corporation, Getty Images, and InterActiveCorp (formerly USA Interactive, Inc). Spoon’s not-for-profit activities include being a member of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation.
Spoon's prior business board service included American Management Systems, Inc., Human Genome Sciences, Inc., International Data Group (IDG) and Riggs National Bank. Prior not-for-profit board service included WETA (Washington, DC public television and radio) and the Norwood School (Bethesda, MD), where he served as chairman.
Spoon is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to his bachelor's degree, he earned an M.S. at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Greg
Strakosch
Greg Strakosch, Co-Founder and CEO,
has led the company to its leadership position as
the fastest-growing IT media company.
Since its launch in August 1999, Strakosch has grown TechTarget from an online media company to a fully diversified IT media and events company. The company has approximately 400+ employees in Needham, MA, San Francisco and New York.
A host of organizations has recognized TechTarget’s success and the innovation and leadership that Strakosch has brought to bear. In 2005:
- Media Business named Strakosch a Top Innovator in Business Publishing
- Strakosch was named to the Folio: 40, a list of “industry innovators with impact”
- BtoB named TechTarget to its annual list of the most powerful business-to-business advertising venues for the fifth consecutive year
- The Boston Business Journal named TechTarget to its list of the Largest Private Companies, after ranking the company for two years running in the top ten of its list of the fastest-growing private companies in Massachusetts.
- The BBJ selected TechTarget as one of the fifty “Best Places to Work” in Massachusetts
Other notable accolades include:
- In 2004, TechTarget earned the #13 spot on the Entrepreneur/D&B “Hot 100” list of the fastest growing entrepreneurial companies in the US
- TechTarget was named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in 2004
- In 2003, Strakosch received the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year® Award, having been selected as a Finalist the year before
- In 2001, TechTarget was selected as the "Hottest Start Up" by MIMC (now MITX), the association representing interactive technology companies in the second-largest market in the country
Prior to founding TechTarget, Strakosch
was President of the Technology Division of UCG, a
leading business-to-business information provider,
where he grew the business more than 15-fold in six
years through internal growth, new product development
and acquisitions. Strakosch joined UCG in 1992 when
the company acquired Reliability Ratings, a successful
IT publishing company he founded in 1989. Before Reliability
Ratings, Strakosch spent six years in senior sales
and marketing positions at EMC Corporation, which
he joined as the company's 29th employee.
Strakosch has a BA from Boston
College.
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