GeniusRocket's Board.
Hugh Panero
Hugh Panero is a venture partner with the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). His efforts are focused on consumer technology.
Prior to NEA, Panero was the co-founder and CEO of DC-based XM Satellite Radio from 1998 August 2007, shortly before the company merged with Sirius Satellite Radio.(NASD: SIRI)
At its height, XM had more than 9.3 million subscribers.
Panero started his career as a journalist, and prior to XM served as the president and CEO of Request Television, a pay-per-view network owned by TCI's Liberty Media and Twentieth Century Fox.
Curt Viebranz
Curtis G. Viebranz is a marketing consultant and venture investor. He was the Chief Executive Officer of TACODA, Inc, where he joined as President & Chief Operating Officer in April 2004. In July of 2006, Mr. Viebranz was named Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Viebranz was one of TACODA's original investors and served on its board of directors since the company was founded in 2001. He engineered the successful sale of the company to AOL/Time Warner in early 2008.
Viebranz spent 17 years at Time Warner and its predecessor company, Time Inc. During that time, Mr. Viebranz held numerous senior management positions with operating responsibility for major businesses both in the U.S. and abroad. He has also served as President of HBO International, the international arm of Time Warner's Home Box Office unit. Previously, he was the first president of Time Inc. Multimedia, the new media division of Time Inc., Time Warner's book and magazine publishing subsidiary. He also served as President of Time Inc. Europe and President of HBO Video, the home video distribution unit of Home Box Office. Viebranz is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Viebranz holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Middlebury College.
Adam Lehman
Adam Lehman is the chief operating officer of Lotame Solutions, a leading internet advertising and social networking platform. He directs all general business operations including business administration and strategic partnerships.
Lehman joins Lotame with deep market and operational experience, having led a wide variety of new business development initiatives for America Online (AOL) and several successful start ups in the social web arena. As a Senior Vice President with AOL, he negotiated strategic partnerships with leading Internet, media, technology and consumer marketing companies, closed billions worth of investment, M&A and joint venture transactions, and managed operations for AOL's central business and corporate development unit. He also had a hand in the original development and implementation of first-generation digital advertising and e-commerce business models.
Since then, he has served as an entrepreneur and active investor in the social media and marketing space, with companies including Wondir, Carmun.com, NaturalPath Media, Goozex and, most recently, as co-founder, President and COO of GeniusRocket, an online service enabling brands to crowdsource viral marketing videos and other creative marketing content.
He is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College and has a law degree from Harvard Law School
GM O’Connell
Gm O’Connell is Senior Partner at Tango Modem an international interactive marketing firm with offices in the United States, Mexico, and Argentina.
From 1987 to 2005, GM O’Connell, was Partner, CEO, Chairman, of Modem Media, a publically traded interactive marketing firm that service Fortune 500 companies. After Modem Media was sold to Publicis, GM joined the advisory board of Brand Studio. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Compass Health Care.
He graduated from Middlebury College.
