Eric Litman
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Eric Litman | |
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 Eric Litman | |
| Born | August 1, 1973 |
| Occupation | Chief executive officer |
| Known for | entrepreneurship, advocating technology |
| Website | http://www.ericlitman.com/ |
Eric Austin Litman (born August 1, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. Litman co-founded Proxicom, built Viaduct from a one-man shop through a merger with the Wolf Group,[1] and is currently Chairman and CEO of Medialets, a mobile rich media ad serving and analytics platform for mobile applications.[2]
He has been profiled and quoted by The Wall Street Journal,[3][4][5][6][7][8] Forbes,[9] Wired,[10] and Fast Company,[11] was named a 2010 Game Changer by New York Enterprise Report,[12] and in 2011 was called one of the "best operators in online advertising" by TechCrunch[13]
Early life and education
Litman was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, where he graduated high school at 15. Litman attended the University of Maryland, College Park.[14]
Career
Starting out in business
While in college, he worked in pre-sales support and engineering at NeXT, the start-up founded by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Litman then went on to serve as a Senior Systems Engineer for Digicon, building secure, distributed networks and applications for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Proxicom
Litman and three other colleagues from Digicon founded Proxicom in 1991. Proxicom, one of the first-generation Internet professional services agencies, went public on NASDAQ in 1998 and was sold to the global consultancy Dimension Data after a bidding war against Compaq (prior to Compaq's merger with Hewlett-Packard).[15]
Viaduct
After Proxicom, Litman founded Viaduct Technologies, an interactive agency, and served as its CEO. Viaduct was acquired by Wolf Group in 2000. After the acquisition Litman stayed as Viaduct's chief operating officer.[16]
WashingtonVC
Litman was the Managing Director of WashingtonVC,[17] an early stage venture capital fund in Washington, DC, where he focused on investments in online media, consumer Internet and telecommunications. He conceptualized and launched Aux Interactive in March, 2008. He left WashingtonVC in May, 2008.
Medialets
Litman is currently serving as Chairman of Medialets, a mobile ad serving, attribution and measurement provider that was acquired by WPP in 2015.
References
- ^ Wolfe and Omnicom Make Acquisitions
- ^ Washington Post profile of Medialets
- ^ Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer (2010-07-02), "Apple Isn't the Only Company Making Cool Mobile Ads", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Ovide, Shira (2010-03-25), "Advertisers Break Out Checkbooks for iPad Magazine Deals", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Vranica, Suzanne (2011-01-03), "Ad Execs Gaze Into 2011 Crystal Ball", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Kane, Yukani Iwatani (2010-07-02), "Apple Lets Google Sell Targeted Ads", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Sheth, Niraj (2010-08-06), "Newest Cellphone Ads Crave Entire Screen", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Ante, Spencer (2011-02-09), "On the Menu: Future of Mobile Apps", Wall St. Journal
- ^ Burkitt, Laurie (2009-03-16), "Shaking Up Advertising", Forbes
- ^ Chen, Brian (2009-03-30), "Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store", Wired
- ^ Pattison, Kermit (2008-09-08), "The Social Capital Investment Strategy", FastCompany
- ^ Meoli, Daria (2010-04-23), "Eric Litman", New York Enterprise Report
- ^ Schonfeld, Erick (2011-05-06), "Disrupting Display Advertising With Social, Mobile, And Beyond At Disrupt NYC", TechCrunch
- ^ Interview with Jonny Goldstein
- ^ Goldfarb, Zach (2008-04-04), "WashingtonVC Targets Social Media", The Washington Post
- ^ Elliott, Stuart (2000-09-18), "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Wolfe and Omnicom Make Acquisitions", The New York Times.
- ^ Adler, Neil (6 December 2007), "Local private equity firm names managing director", Washington Business Journal, bizjournals, retrieved 2008-03-26