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Management Team

Management Team

Dominic Butera
Chief Financial Officer
Paul Gardi
Chief Executive Officer, IAC Advertising Solutions
Scott Garell
Chief Executive Officer, IAC Consumer Applications & Portals
Jim Lanzone
Chief Executive Officer, Ask.com
Jon Brod
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Portals
Dan Caul
General Counsel
John Park
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Toolbar Properties


Dominic Butera
Chief Financial Officer

As CFO of IAC Search & Media, Butera is responsible for all financial operations of the Company worldwide including, financial planning and forecasting, accounting, and treasury.


Butera joined IAC Search & Media from Ocular Sciences, where he served as Treasurer and was responsible for managing foreign currency exposure, bank relations, corporate cash management and insurance. Before joining Ocular, Butera held a number of finance positions at various companies, including VP treasurer of Innoventry, a joint venture between Wells Fargo Bank, Cash America International, and Capital One; VP of finance & operations for Intermap Technologies; and director of financial planning and treasury for IDG Books Worldwide.


Butera received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and is a Certified Public Accountant.


Paul Gardi
Chief Executive Officer, IAC Advertising Solutions

As CEO of IAC Advertising Solutions, Paul Gardi is responsible for three revenue and product divisions: search, media and performance advertising. Gardi was appointed to lead IAC Advertising Solutions from his previous position as executive vice president and general manager of IAC Search & Media's advertising solutions and sales division. From 2003 to 2005, Gardi served as senior vice president for operations and strategic planning, a position that included defining the future direction of the Company. Gardi joined IAC Search & Media in 2001, after selling Teoma Technologies to the Company and subsequently oversaw search for Ask.com.


Before joining IAC Search & Media, Gardi was president of Teoma Technologies and a managing director for Hawk Holdings, a venture capital, investment and operating company. Prior to that position, Mr. Gardi was executive vice president of operations and strategy for e-Exchange, a business-to-business trading company.


A native of South Africa, Gardi holds an AB degree and an MBA degree from Harvard University.


Scott Garell
Chief Executive Officer, IAC Consumer Applications & Portals

As CEO of IAC Consumer Applications & Portals, Scott Garell oversees operations of the Company's desktop applications, portals and Evite business. Prior to this role, Garell served as executive vice president of domestic sites and search, where he managed the Company's destination sites (Ask.com, iWon, and My Way), as well as the optimization of its proprietary information retrieval technologies and products across all brands. Garell joined IAC Search & Media in April 2004 as senior vice president of marketing.


Garell came to IAC Search & Media from ACCPAC, a subsidiary of Computer Associates, where as senior vice president of the Small Business Group, he managed a 60% growth of the Simply Accounting small business software line. Before Computer Associates, Garell was the CEO of Smartage.com, a business-to-small-business software company, and also held various positions at Citysearch (now an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp), including vice president of the Western Region and general manager/founder of the San Francisco office. Prior to Citysearch, Garell worked as a brand manager at Clorox, where he oversaw the $100MM Pine Sol business and drove record growth for the brand.


Garell holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelors degree in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley.


Jim Lanzone
CEO, Ask.com

As CEO of Ask.com, Jim Lanzone is responsible for overseeing world-wide business operations. Ask.com is one of the world's leading search engines, with more than 20 million users per month, offering unique tools and technologies that make search better. Previous to his role as CEO, Lanzone served as senior vice president and general manager of Ask.com US, leading product management, marketing and engineering for the Company. Lanzone joined Ask.com as vice president of product management in 2001.


Prior to his tenure at Ask.com, Lanzone co-founded eTour, an early provider of information retrieval and cost-per-lead services on the Web, and served as president until it was acquired by Ask.com in May 2001. eTour launched in 1997 and under Lanzone's direction, became a top 50 website and the Web's #1 ranked site in user frequency in 1998 and 1999 (Media Metrix). Additionally, eTour was rated "A+" by Entertainment Weekly. Earlier, Lanzone worked in product marketing for KnowX.com, a division of the Thomson Corporation and one of the Internet's leading providers of public record search.


Lanzone received his BA from U.C.L.A. and JD/MBA from Emory University.


Jon Brod
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Portals

As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Portals, Brod is responsible for overseeing and growing IAC Search & Media's portal destinations, including Excite.com, iWon.com, MyWay.com and its private label portal business.


Brod joined IAC Search & Media from Interactive Search Holdings (ISH), where he held numerous positions, including vice president of marketing and communications, as well as group vice president of business operations. In these capacities, Brod was responsible for all of the company's marketing, communications and operations initiatives. Prior to ISH, Brod served as special assistant to the president and CMO for the National Basketball Association. Brod also served as consumer products manager for NBA Canada, and launched the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies expansion franchises.


Brod holds a BS in History and Government from Bowdoin College.


Dan Caul
General Counsel

As General Counsel for IAC Search & Media, Caul oversees all legal affairs for the Company worldwide. Caul held the position of Associate General Counsel at IAC Search & Media prior to his appointment as General Counsel.


Before joining IAC Search & Media in 2003, Caul served on the legal staffs for numerous Bay Area Internet companies, including Critical Path and Slam Dunk Networks. Prior to these positions, he served as corporate counsel for Barclays Global Investors and as an associate with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk Rabkin.


Caul received a B.A. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.


John Park
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Toolbar Properties

As Senior Vice President of Toolbar Properties, John Park is responsible for leading the development of IAC Search & Media's family of FunWebProducts. This popular line of downloadable applications includes Smiley Central, Popular Screensavers, Cursor Mania and more.


Park joined IAC Search & Media from Interactive Search Holdings (ISH), where he served as group vice president of product management and was responsible for the original development of the iWon.com and MyWay.com properties, as well as the revamping and conversion of Excite.com. Prior to ISH, Park served as vice president of product management for OnMoney, a division of Ameritrade, and managed the company's product development efforts, which included defining the product vision as well as strategic partnerships and user-interfaces. Park has also held positions with leading companies, including Prodigy Internet Services and New York Web.


Park earned a BS in Information Systems and Management from New York University.


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