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Professional: Brian Bowman
Brian Bowman is the Founder/CEO of LikeIt.com, a fun way to discover people, places, and things.

He is a senior executive in the consumer Internet space with expertise in acquisition marketing, product strategy, social media and general management. Experience spans start-up and large company environments with a track record of navigating online businesses to profitability while producing award-winning products.

Key executive roles: CMO Reply.com, VP Community Yahoo.com, VP Product Match.com, VP of Marketing & Product InfoSpace.com and VP GM Disney/ABC.com.   He has overseen the development of many award-winning, consumer-facing websites such as: Match.com, Yahoo 360, Yahoo Groups, DisneyChannel.com, Oscar.com and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". 

As the Chief Marketing Officer for Reply.com he managed a $30mm PPC budget for high-margin, performance-based consumer acquisition. Under his leadership, he built Reply! into a top 100 spending PPC team in Google AdWords. He conceived, patented and launched Reply!'s Click Marketplace delivered over 30% of company's gross margin. He built Reply!'s publisher business which led to acquisition of MerchantCircle.com and relationships with Local.com and CBS

Prior to Reply!, Mr. Bowman was VP of community for Yahoo.  While at Yahoo, he was responsible for Yahoo's online community applications (360, Groups, Photos and Avatars) and community platforms (Blogs, Ratings & Reviews, Reputation and Message Boards).  As one of the few people in the world to have created more than one multi-million member online community he has spent the past 16 years developing and running products based around member interaction and social networking.

Prior to Yahoo, he was VP of Product Management & Marketing for Infospace's search and yellow pages division, VP of Product Development for Match.com, VP & General Manager of Disney/ABC.com and held positions at Disney Channel, Tuner/Cartoon Network and USWeb / Cybernautics.

Mr. Bowman graduated from Purdue University, sits several Advisory Boards.  He resides in Livermore, CA with his wife and two daughters.

For more information, please visit: Brian Bowman's Profile.

Summary of Skills

General Management -- P/L Management and Strategic Planning
• Consumer Lifecycle -- Customer Acquisition, Conversion, Retention, Reactivation
• Brand Management -- Positioning, Segmentation, MarCom & Pricing
• Business Development -- New Channels, Alliances, B2C, B2B
• Building Teams -- Hands On, High Energy, Entrepreneurial

Marketing
• Online performance-based marketing, consumer acquisition, retention and lead generation
• Strategic planning and P&L management
• Acquisition marketing across PPC, Display, Social Media, Email & Affiliates
• User segmentation and research management
• Public Relations, corporate positioning, creating social and product level “buzz” 

Product
• Product strategy, planning and development
• Auction & marketplace strategy
• Social media strategy
• A/B - multivariate testing and landing page design
• Concept development - ideation to implementation
• User experience and design
• Site flow, UI and usability - high level & detailed


Specialties

• Performance-based, online consumer acquisition
• Product strategy and development
• Online marketing & Lead generation
• Transactional and eCommerce business models
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