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Our Team
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 Robert E. Gelinas
President & CEO
Robert is a visionary leader, an experienced senior executive with over 25 years in the high-tech industry, as well as a successful entrepreneur. He holds a degree in Electronics Systems Technology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Maryland, and the US Air Force. He is a decorated veteran, having served in the United States Air Force for seven and half years. He has worked for Fortune-100 corporations such as Motorola, SAIC, and Storage Technologies (STK). He has done four successful start-ups in senior leadership positions, all which led to successful acquisitions, and executed one turnaround of a failing public product company.
Robert founded his own Internet-based company in 2003, and is intimately familiar with online publishing, marketing, and advertising. He possesses a broad skill set—business, technical, and creative—embracing every aspect of the Internet business paradigm, and critical to the success of this venture. He is also an internationally published author and frequent public speaker.
 Laura Shepherd
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Laura was recruited from Brown Publishing (over 70 print and online publications), where she served as Group Advertising Sales Director of two of their sales divisions, and was awarded Sales Manager of the Year in 2006, managing a team of eleven Ad Sales Executives. She has received numerous Advertising Sales awards during her tenure with Brown, generating millions of dollars in annual Advertising Revenues.
She began her career with Brown as a Regional Circulation Manager and later transitioned into a Controller position with the same Ohio division. She then transitioned into the role of Advertising Director and led the team to a 30% increase the first year served. Ms. Shepherd subsequently led her sales team the second year to the largest increase yet of over 40% from the previous year. Brown then added an additional division to her charge, where she led her new, once failing team to double digit increases over the prior year and simultaneously cinched another double-digit increased year with her other division.
Laura is a hands-on sales leader, intimately familiar and accomplished with highly competitive Advertising Sales, and is also experienced in developing and executing outbound advertising campaigns, rate card and advertising product development, public relations, client relations, and advertising product promotion.
She also led the launch of two of Brown’s first online divisions in 2006, and quickly drove these websites to Top-10 revenue status in her company. She then went on to coach other divisions who were initiating launches during this year. Ms. Shepherd has over twenty (20) years of sales management experience and studied business administration and management at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio.
 Joanna E. Gelinas
VP of Finance
Joanna holds two magna cum laude degrees in Finance and Economics from Jacksonville State University, has over 17 years of industry experience, primarily in high-tech, and has served as a senior financial manager and analyst, project manager, and systems integration consultant, managing operational budgets in excess of $500 million (General Motors/EDS). In addition to her many years at EDS, she has served with organizations such as Sealand/CSX, Sun International, The Carnegie Group, and Paciolan Systems. At Sun International, she was directly responsible for project management and financial oversight of the website for their Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, which entailed a $25 million budget.
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