Charles Kronbach : Senior Vice President, CI Ad Network & SellCore

Charles is an accomplished leader with over 10 years experience with e-commerce, online marketing and international management.  In this cornerstone role, Charles will advance the fast-paced revenue growth and market penetration of the CI Ad Network, driving CI’s vision.

Prior to joining CI, Charles was the Senior Manager of the Amazon Associates program in Europe. He led Amazon’s pan-European online and affiliate marketing program, drove negotiations with large partners for media placements and alliances, and accelerated growth while improving spend efficiency. Provisionally directing Amazon’s Japanese affiliate marketing program, he stimulated and established growth for both markets.  As an Amazon Finance Manager, Charles guided financial analysis and planning for Amazon's multi-million dollar search engine marketing program.

As senior manager for Inforte Corporation, Charles developed the market entry strategy for new web portal offering by a principal life insurance company.  Previous to Inforte, he led strategic online initiatives for Cerner Corporation and AT&T Solutions.

Charles holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University. 

John Gaset : Vice President  & General Manager, SellCast Services

John has over 30 years of experience working in the computer hardware and software markets. He has held staff and management positions across sales, operations, consulting, product management and client services. Prior to Channel Intelligence, John served as Senior Director of Sales for Latin America for Pivotal Corporation, a major CRM software company. He has also held various senior management positions at Seagate Software.

John has been with Channel Intelligence since 2002 and has been instrumental in the development of sales process and operations, building and growing our base of manufacturer and retailer clients, and improvements and innovations in offered product/services.  In his current position he is responsible for the company’s SellCast product line, SellCast Managed Services which offers outsourced management of retailer affiliate programs, and the SellCast Services organization which provides front-line support to CI's SellCast client community. 

Vik Murty : Vice President,  SellPath® General Manager

Consumer electronics sales and marketing veteran Vik Murty drives strategy, marketing, product and business development of the SellPath® Online Merchandising products in the US and internationally.  Vik joined CI from Mitsubishi Digital Television, where he served as its Senior Brand Manager responsible for various brand, product and channel marketing functions including Mitsubishi’s online marketing and channel support program. 

Vik’s experience also includes launching Samsung brand major appliances in the US as a Category Product Manager, and managing relationships with key Midwest retailers for DIRECTV as manager of Sales and Distribution. Vik began his consumer electronics career at Circuit City Stores, Inc. in store management. Throughout his career, Vik has served on various committees for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), and the High Definition Audio-Video Alliance (HANA).

Vik has a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Managing and Marketing Technology Intensive Enterprises from Babson College and a Bachelor of Science in from Bentley College.

J. Patrick Thompson : Senior Vice President Architecture

As Senior Vice President of Architecture, Patrick's role is to provide direction and coordination across the various teams within Channel Intelligence and to chart the long-term direction of the company and the industry with respect to the representation of data and meta data for online retailing. Patrick is a recognized industry expert in the area of user and systems modeling having worked on numerous projects for Unisys and Microsoft. He was one of the initial members of the Microsoft WinFS team that played a pivotal role in the evolution of the latest version of the Windows operating system. He was also a founding member of the Microsoft WMI team and managed or participated in all of the schema work done during the first six years of the WMI initiative.

Working for Unisys, Patrick was a senior member of a team that developed a database management system based on the Semantic Data Model implemented on Unisys A Series mainframes, Unix and Windows. Patrick is the author of a book on data modeling as applied to application development and a book on the use of data models in application management and monitoring. He is the author of numerous articles and has presented and taught widely on systems management, data modeling, database design, and transaction processing.

Patrick is the holder of three issued patents and is named as co-author on 12 pending patents.

Tim Tryzbiak : Vice President of Operations

With over 16 years of experience, Tim has provided leadership as both a development and operations manager,  defining, developing, and implementing process improvements as an Intelligence Analyst in the US Army and as a consultant at companies like Bausch & Lomb, Barnett Bank, and National Life of Vermont.

In 2000, Tim joined Channel Intelligence as a Lead Developer where he worked with Microsoft on emerging technology and presented at the 2001 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.  He later became the SellCast General Manager responsible for creating the product line and solutions that serve Channel Intelligence’s retailer clients today.

Tim is co-author of Channel Intelligence’s patent on the dynamic display of web content. 

Currently, Tim is the Vice President of Operations and brings the same analytical, problem solving, and leadership skills to all of Channel Intelligence in order to improve efficiency and quality across all product lines.

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