Steve Lombardi
President & CEO
Steve brings over 13 years of online marketing and entrepreneurial experience to ExpertHub. His background includes leading a direct navigation network, building media properties optimized for organic search, and operating a diversified performance-marketing network that delivered leads on a pay-per-customer basis. Steve has managed over $50M of annual online media spend across search, display, and email.
Prior to leading ExpertHub, Steve served as the president of Firstlook, a direct navigation network, and as chief marketing officer of Connexus, a diversified online performance marketing platform. Steve started his online career in 1999 as the co-founder of TheMan.com. He has also held leadership positions at American Media/Weider Publications, diCarta and Ernst & Young LLP.
Steve holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo, where he graduated summa cum laude.
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Marcus Lopez
Vice President, Marketing
Marcus leads the marketing effort of building out user experiences and generating traffic to ExpertHub’s web network. He brings 10 years internet marketing experience, including extensive product development, traffic acquisition and monetization expertise. Previously, Marcus was vice president of marketing at Firstlook, managing media properties and organic search business.
Marcus began his career in Asia at Kimo.com, the leading Chinese internet portal, which was acquired by Yahoo!® in 2000, in addition to holding leadership positions at Yahoo!, eBay, Traffic Marketplace, and Connexus Corporation.
Marcus holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with the highest honors, and a master’s from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Marcus is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
George Ng
Vice President, Finance & Operations
George brings over 10 years of finance, operations and corporate development experience to ExpertHub. George currently oversees all financial activities and business operations of the company, which include financial planning, reporting, sales operations and customer service.
Prior to ExpertHub, George was Director of Corporate Development at Connexus, where he was responsible for planning, executing and integrating the company’s various acquisitions. George began his career in investment banking at SG Cowen and Jefferies & Company, where he advised companies on various financing, restructuring and M&A advisory transactions in the technology and consumer retail industries.
George holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of San Francisco, graduating with honors.
Gavin Chan
Director of Engineering
Gavin manages engineering, operations, and IT functions for ExpertHub. He brings over 15 years of online and enterprise architecture and software development experience, and has played leading roles in successful software development, and product research and management functions. Gavin has a diverse technical background of open source software, LAMP, Java, and Windows technologies.
Prior to ExpertHub, Gavin served as software architect at YouSendIt – a digital file delivery SaaS company – where he led and managed many successful projects, including the initial launch of the corporate suite line of products, and the YouSendIt content management system.
Previously, Gavin was a founding engineer at SpikeSource, a pioneer in open source productization and solutions, where he bootstrapped and delivered many software projects including the company and community websites and the developer network. Gavin was also a software architect at SEEC, a leading business process integration company, principal software engineer at Asera, a business process application platform and service provider, and senior windows software engineer at PointCast, the internet push technology pioneer company.
Gavin holds a B.S.E. in computer systems engineering from Arizona State University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and a master’s degree in computer science from Arizona State University.
Board of Directors
Miles Arnone
Managing Director, Technology Group American Capital
Miles Arnone serves as managing director of American Capital’s Technology Group. Joining American Capital in September 2002 as a vice president on the operations team, he was promoted to principal in 2004, and managing director in 2007. Miles co-heads the American Capital Technology Group and is based in Boston, MA.
Previously, Miles was entrepreneur-in-residence at Charterhouse Group International, a private equity firm with $1 billion under management. There, he was responsible for conducting due diligence and managing portfolio companies. His assignments included work in the machine tool, electronics, and medical device industries.
Prior to his tenure at Charterhouse Group, Miles was president of Boston Digital Corporation, a machine tool builder with approximately $30 million in sales. While there he authored the reference work High Performance Machining, an implementation guide for recent innovations in CNC machining. His most recent work, America's Trading Partners: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was published in November 2004.
Miles holds graduate degrees in management and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT.
Ted Hastings
CEO and President Moxy Media
Ted Hastings serves as CEO and president of Moxy Media. Prior to his role at Moxy Media, he served as president of Geosign where he was instrumental in completing a US $160 million private equity financing as well as five strategic acquisitions.
Ted’s earlier career includes a position with High Jump Software, a division of 3M, where he was responsible for the post-acquisition integration of the Global Beverage Group (GBG) into High Jump’s delivery division. As chief executive officer of GBG for five years, Ted increased the company’s value through a series of nine strategic acquisitions, ultimately culminating in the sale of Global Beverage Group to 3M, a Fortune 100 Company. Ted also served as chief executive officer of Endgame Systems. Ted worked for four years at Deloitte & Touche, LLP where he earned his CA and CPA designations.
Steve Lombardi
President & CEO
ExpertHub
Steve brings over 13 years of online marketing and entrepreneurial experience to ExpertHub. His background includes leading a direct navigation network, building media properties optimized for organic search, and operating a diversified performance-marketing network that delivered leads on a pay-per-customer basis. Steve has managed over $50M of annual online media spend across search, display, and email.
Prior to leading ExpertHub, Steve served as the president of Firstlook, a direct navigation network, and as chief marketing officer of Connexus, a diversified online performance marketing platform. Steve started his online career in 1999 as the co-founder of TheMan.com. He has also held leadership positions at American Media/Weider Publications, diCarta and Ernst & Young LLP.
Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Cal Poly—San Luis Obispo, where he graduated summa cum laude, and a master’s degree from Stanford University.
