The Cursor Marketing Management Team

Cursor Marketing's leaders were pioneers in the last significant new ad format: pay-per-click search marketing. They have rejoined to introduce cursor marketing.

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  Craig Pisaris-Henderson

  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

  Prior to Cursor Marketing, Craig was the Founding and Managing Member of The Nexus Group & Nexus Capital—a strategic consulting and investment company for both public and private companies seeking guidance on digital marketing & advertising, new media and online/offline publishing distribution platforms sectors.

  Prior to Nexus, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) through April 2006. Craig founded MIVA's predecessor in 1996 and guided the company—a global leader in performance-based marketing and commerce enabling services—to a $700 million market capitalization, with approximately $200 million in annual revenue and 500 employees worldwide. Craig won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, as well as many industry and regional distinctions.




• John Moran

  Chief Revenue Officer

  Prior to Cursor Marketing, John was the Vice President of Publisher Sales and Internet Traffic Quality for the Web Content Group of Adknowledge, Inc.—the largest independent advertiser marketplace that connects advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including social, email and web content. During his tenure with Adknowledge, he helped lead the turnaround of the Web Content group. His ideas literally generated millions of dollars of additional EBITDA on an annualized basis.

  Prior to Adknowledge, John served in various executive level positions with MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) through March 2009 until its media division was sold to Adknowledge. John worked for MIVA's predecessor—FindWhat.com (NASDAQ: FWHT)—as a consultant at its inception and officially joined the company in 2001. John helped to launch and grow this online performance-based marketing company from a start-up to operating businesses on three continents in nine languages with offices in seven countries and over five hundred employees at its peak. As VP of Operations, John managed approximately 150 people and created many departments, processes and products to grow & build the company.

  From 1992 to 1999, John specialized in raising funds for companies via private placements and public offerings (including Rainforest Cafe, Famous Daves BBQ, Image Sensing Systems, ShuffleMaster, etc.) and served on the Board of Directors of various companies. These initiatives encompassed writing private placement memorandum(s), creating internal processes/procedures and assisting in the launch of these company's products or services.




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  Ian Gertler

  Chief Marketing Officer

  Prior to Cursor Marketing, Ian was the President & CEO of Symplegades Inc.—a marketing consultancy he founded in 2004. He provided both strategic and tactical guidance to his clients on their marketing, branding, public/investor relations, communications, social media and other Internet/web-based disciplines.

  Ian has served in various capacities with established Fortune 500 leaders, early-stage entities, community venues and advertising firms in a variety of industries: Internet, technology, financial services, media, publishing, education, healthcare, CPG, sports and government. These efforts have included collaborations with Computer Associates (CA), TRAVELSAVERS (international travel consortium), American Home Mortgage, 1-800-FLOWERS.com, FindWhat.com (MIVA), CMP Media, The Nexus Group and Special Olympics—among others.

  Ian is active in the social media arena and was recently named as one of the Top CMOs on Twitter Worldwide by Kent Huffman and Social Media Marketing Magazine, as well as serving as a judge for years with the Web Marketing Association. He is also an evangelist for the Techonomy philosophy and movement, reinforcing the premise that technology and innovation will spur many new opportunities while solving the world's challenges.