I am the co-founder and formerly the CEO and Chairman of DoubleClick, Inc (Nasdaq:  DCLK). DoubleClick is the leading provider of marketing technology and services.  Beginning with two people (Dwight Merriman and me) in a basement, DoubleClick is now an organization of 1400 people with offices around the world.  I was CEO for DoubleClick from 1996 to 2001 and Chairman through 2005.  DoubleClick was sold in July of 2005 to the private equity firm Helman & Friedman for $1.1 billion.

     My lowest paying job, though perhaps the most exciting, was as a wrestling coach with Jeff Gaier at Cincinnati Moeller from 1988-1992.  Moeller didn't have much of a wrestling team back then, but is now consistently one of the top wrestling programs in the country.

     I helped launch other software entities including ICC and Internet Security Systems (Nasdaq:  ISSX).  I started ICC with Bill Miller and Michael Schier back in 1983 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  At ICC I was the VP of Research but was really a hardcore coder and developed many of our products which tied PCs into Burroughs and Sperry mainframes.  I know it's hard to believe, but that was exciting stuff back then.  I also created one of the first products to allow PCs to tie into local area networks, again very common place today but radical back in 1989.  We were acquired in 1992 by DCA where I continued as Vice President of Research.  DCA merged with Attachmate in 1995 where I stayed for about a week and then left.  In 1995 I stumbled on a brilliant kid named Chris Klaus and helped Chris and Tom Noonan build Internet Security Systems into a large, successful software business that was sold to IBM in 2006 for $1.3 billion.  Also in 1995, Dwight and I started Internet Advertising Network which would subsequently become DoubleClick.

     I also sit on a number of private company boards that I have invested in, including 9 Star, Travidia, FoundValue and Procore.  Today, I am mainly focused on my venture capital business, O'Connor Ventures, providing seed capital to startups that I hope will become massive companies rather than a tax write-off.  I am also the author of the book, “Map of Innovation:  Creating Something from Nothing”.

     I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan with honors in 1983.  In the spring of 2000, I had the privilege to give the College's keynote address at graduation. I was a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science's National Advisory Board.  I'm also a co-chair of Progress & Promise: the 150th Anniversary Campaign.  Today I am on the Board of Trustees at Crane Country Day School where I also chair the Annual Fund.

     But most importantly, I'm happily married with three great kids.