CMO of Ribbit - since Sept 15, 2007.

Ribbit, Silicon Valley's First Phone Company, is an open platform for telephony innovation. Ribbit allows non-telephony developers to integrate voice applications into their sites, communities or applications. Ribbit launched Dec, 17th, 2007.

On July 29th, Ribbit announced it had been acquired by BT for $105 million, 7 months after coming out of stealth and 10 months after Don joined the company.

VP Global Marketing, Jajah June of 2006 - Sept, 2007.
Jajah delivers a global, web-activated telephony solution that lowers the cost of international calls.

In the first year, Jajah acquired over 2 million registered users from 55 countries, using social media for customer acquisition. For more information about Don's time at Jajah go to: http://donthorson.typepad.com/don_thorson/2007/03/jajah_year_one.html

Don is also a member of The MileStone Group - a prestigious group of executive level technology and business consultants. (http://www.milestone-group.com/)

Other:

Owner / President - Momentum Marketing, Palo Alto, CA

Momentum Marketing (http://www.donthorson.typepad.com/momentum/1_about_momentum/
index.html.com)

Momentum has been involved in the development and introduction of over 500 products and 12 companies. They have a proven history of making new companies and products successful.

Momentum Customers Include:

Apple Computer
Asian Art Museum
AT&T
Bank Of America
Charles Schwab
Hewlett-Packard
Krugle
Mobius Ventures
Netscape / AOL
Netcom
Novellus
WellPoint
Whistle / IBM
Xerox

Other:

Apple Computer: . Sr. Creative Director, Contributing to Brand Management, Packaging, Customer Experience, Event Marketing.

Other, Other:

Krugle, DoDots and advisor to Critical Energy Systems, Citizen Agency and Hubbub.

After publishing a ground-breaking online magazine for several years, Kris became president of Bryght - a "web 2.0" start-up who offer a unique hosting service. Through enthusiastic outreach, Kris helped create a marketplace for community-centric websites and his evangelism spawned an eco-system of related companies in Vancouver.

Educated in Communications and Philosophy at Trinity Western University, Kris also moonlights as a fashion photographer, shooting subjects from executives to rock bands for fun and profit. He also organizes PhotoCamps and PhotoWalks for aspiring and established photographers to exchange tips on both artistic and business lens of photography.

Well known in the blogging community, Kris regularly speaks at conferences and media programs around the world about Internet tools, new media, and evolving copyright standards. He is an organizer of the Vancouver tech conference Northern Voice as well as a catalyst for workshops and "un"conferences - most recently in Beijing and Shanghai where Kris participated in international economic leadership events in advance of the 2008 and 2010 Olympics.

Kris' skills bridge the technology, business and art communities. Through his unique approach to aesthetics and open business, he encourages collaboration to produce personal and professional expression online. As a bit of an "Internet rockstar," he actively touts Vancouver as the most exciting and productive place to start a web business and openly assists new tech enterprises with entrepreneurial challenges.

Kris Krug’s Specialties:

*Community-building and management
*New media strategy
*Blogging and social networking
*Online marketing
*Customer service and support
*Communications and writing
*Public speaking and PR
*Photography and design
*Event planning

As Managing Director of Radar DDB, DDB Canada’s group specializing in social media and emerging technologies, Justin leads a team of engagement strategists, producers, project managers and community cultivators from around the world. Among other clients, Justin oversees the Canadian Tourism Commission’s global integrated social media campaign, which Marketing called “ground-breaking” when they named the CTC 2009 Marketer of the Year. He also manages the integration of Radar DDB’s social media offering within both the local and national DDB network. Prior to joining Radar DDB, Justin worked with a number of agencies and clients in San Francisco including Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (Hewlett-Packard and Banana Republic integrated brand campaigns); Red Sky (Miller Brewing experiential websites); and SF Interactive (Shockwave.com gaming, website and online advertising). Returning to Vancouver, he joined Rethink Communications and lead multiple award-winning initiatives including the Knowledge Network re-brand and the Mr. Lube brand campaign.

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Wesley is an early employee and fun-loving entrepreneur at Google, where he is tasked with scouting new opportunities and turning them into disruptive billion dollar businesses. Two of his favorite products he's founded and launched include Google Analytics and Google Voice.

Wesley is a reciepient of Google's founder award--the company's most prestigious recognition--for leading the development of Google Toolbar and building out Google's early client efforts. He is a former research lead at HP Labs, a prior Program Manager at Microsoft, and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory.

In his spare time, Wesley also serves as Google's Chief Photographer Emeritus. His favorite camera is the Canon EOS-5D Mark II.

Specialties
Starting fun businesses, solving really hard problems!