Douglas McIntyre is currently a partner at 24/7 Wall St., the financial blog and commentary site which runs about 30 stories a day.
I started my first job out of college at Time, Inc. in New York, long before the Warner or AOL mergers. I spent time in the editorial, circulation, marketing, and strategic planning groups.
At Veronis, Suhler & Associates, the media investment bank, I was one of the earliest employees.When I joined, we had five full-time employees. One of our clients, Financial World Magazine, hired me to be its general manager.
Within a year after joining Financial World, a group of us, including financier Carl Lindner and former Washington Post Company president Mark Meagher, bought the magazine. I was the company's president and later editor-in-chief and publisher. During my time their, the magazine's paid circulation went from 80,000 to 500,000. We made the Adweek "Ten Hottest Magazines" list twice.
In 1997, I moved into the internet business at Switchboard.com. It became the 10th most visited site on the internet about a year later, according to MediaMetrix, and went public.
After Switchboard, I became CEO of FutureSource, Inc. which provided trading terminals, options and energy data feeds and real time new to trading desks.
For six years, ending in early 2006, I was CEO of On2 Technologies, a video compression company.
I have served on several public boards including TheStreet.com, Edgar Online, Comps.com, and Vicinity.
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