Advisors

Ben Anderson

Ben Anderson is leadership advisor to CEOs and Board of Directors in the Silicon Valley. Ben provides clients with well-rounded consultation and international access to talent. Clients enlist him to recruit talent in transformational situations ‚ times deemed critical to the success of growth initiatives and to re-energize businesses.

Prior to Lonergan Partners he was a Partner at CTPartners. Ben was the Founder and CEO of Renoir Partners, a London based executive search firm specializing in the technology sector. Renoir Partners combined with CTPartners in 2005.

 

Michael Bayle

Michael Bayle is the Senior Director of Global Mobile Advertising for Yahoo where he leads the global operations for Yahoo Mobile, whose services span across 30+ countries. Bayle is Treasurer and a Board member of the Mobile Marketing Association and is the Board sponsor of the sub-committee on mobile advertising guidelines.

Bayle joined Yahoo in September 2002 and played a key role in launching the world’s first mobile sponsored search trials in Japan in 2004, and in the US in 2005.

 

John Luongo

John has more than 30 years of chief executive and senior operations experience working with leading technology companies, including The Vantive Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Merrill, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre, and Tymshare, Inc. Currently, he is a venture partner with Opus Capital. Most recently, Luongo was president, CEO and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software provider. Previously, John was senior vice president, International Division, for Oracle Corporation. He also worked as a senior consultant for Merrill, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre, a venture capital firm.

Mark Lockareff

Mark Lockareff is an established senior executive, entrepreneur, and investor with a successful 24 year track record of operating, venture capital, investment banking, and board of director experience with leading companies in the technology industry.

Mark is currently a Managing Director of Bridge Partners, an advisory firm he co-founded in 2008 that provides interim CEO, board of director, and executive chairman services to high potential technology companies. From January through December 2009, Mark served as interim CEO and President of Agiliance. Prior to Agiliance, Mark served as interim CEO at Apptera, a mobile ad network company.

 

Randy Haldeman

Randy has over 25 years of broad high-tech experience including 15 years in operations as a design engineer, sales application engineer, product manager, corporate marketer and buisness development deirector, plus over 12 years in senior management roles as a GM, CIO, CMO and SVP.

As Apptera’s former Chief Marketing Officer, Randy was responsible for leading the change of direction from a packaged speech application company to a leader in the mobile advertising industry. He also led the teams that negotiated and closed Apptera’s 3 largest deals: AT&T, AOL and Fandango.

Curently, Randy is a “change agent” at Symyx, a public company with over $100M in revenues. As the SVP of Internet Content, Randy is bringing web-based tools and collaboration services to thousands of scientists across the globe. Prior to joining Apptera, Randy worked at several companies monetizing content on the web, and was awarded a patent on the optimized way to deliver rich-media assets over the Internet.

 

Tom Vadnais

Tom Vadnais began his career with IBM where he held multiple positions including VP of Operations for the PC division and assistant to the IBM CEO and Chairman of the BOD. Following his IBM career he joined Tascor, Inc. as President and CEO. Upon the sale of Tascor he moved to DPRC as CEO. In 2001 he joined Mediaplex as CEO and then joined ValueClick in 2001 when Mediaplex was acquired be ValueCLick. He retired from his CEO and BOD positions at ValueClick in April, 2010.

 

Michael Cerda

Michael Cerda has a long career in breaking new ground for startups and bringing larger companies thru major inflections. Cerda is currently VP of Technology at Myspace, as a result of a sale of Threadbox (fka Cc:Betty), where he was co-founder and CEO. Cerda incubated the real-time messaging service as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Venrock. Cerda was Vice President of Sales and Business Development of web voice company Jajah (sold to Telefonica in 2010), following a three year effort as co-founder and CEO of social communications company Jangl (sold to Live Universe 2008). Prior to Jangl, Cerda co-founded consumer VoIP service and device company, Ooma (privately held), and served as the company’s original CEO.