Frank Addante is a successful serial entrepreneur. Frank is the CEO and Founder of the Rubicon Project, a fast-growing company with a mission is to automate the massive ($27+ billion), yet highly fragmented and inefficient internet advertising industry. the Rubicon Project is a self-service solution for any website to make money from ads on their site. the Rubicon Project is Frank’s 5th company. Before the age of 30, he started 4 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems, a successful Silicon Valley software company. Frank was the Founding CEO of StrongMail, the leading email delivery infrastructure provider for the world’s most recognized brands including Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Williams Sonoma, FTD, Netflix and MySpace.com. Frank self-funded StrongMail and led it from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to the market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million from top-tier venture capitalists including Sequoia Capital (investors behind Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco and Apple).
Frank was formerly Chief Technology Officer and technology Founder of L90, Inc. where he invented adMonitor™, one of the Internet’s most successful advertising platforms. adMonitor delivered over 8 billion ads per month for more than 3,000 customers, reaching 65% of the worldwide Internet population. L90 raised $112 million in its IPO, reached a market cap of a half billion dollars and adMonitor was later acquired by DoubleClick.
Shortly after L90’s IPO, Frank left to start Zondigo, a wireless and voice company partnered with Intel. As an early pioneer of the Internet, he developed Starting Point, a search engine portal that became the 7th most popular Internet site from 1995-1997 and was acquired by CMGI/YesMail.com.
Frank was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, was nominated for Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year award and has been quoted in publications such as Forbes, MSNBC, RedHerring, BusinessWeek, InformationWeek and the Los Angeles and Silicon Valley Business Journals. He serves on various boards of innovative technology and marketing companies and received his education in electrical and computer engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Frank lives in Los Angeles and enjoys running, surfing, basketball and karate.
Mr. Schiller recently joined Live2Net as its Chief Financial Officer where he is responsible for arranging financing for this $40 million global entertainment technology company. Mr Schiller is also COO and CFO of Xingtone, which he joined in 2004. Mr. Schiller has been an entrepreneur in the technology field for almost 20 years. He received his MBA from Columbia University in 1986 and his BS from Georgetown University in 1984. Mr. Schiller co-founded Interactive Light, a maker of sports-themed arcade-based video games, in 1989. Some of the technology that came out of Interactive Light was licensed to Sega, Roland, and Callaway Golf. In 2000 he started PrimeID, an VC-backed Internet company focused on facilitating web-based communications and the building of customer databases for retail merchants. Mr. Schiller is listed as an inventor on two patents and has participated in the issuance of seven more.
