Brian Goffman

BrightTALK Ltd. provides online events for professionals and their communities. It also offers searching communities, channels, summits or individual webcasts and relevant presentations. The company was founded by Charles Jonathan Blackburn and Paul Steven Heald in 2002 and is headquartered in Buckinghamshire, the United Kingdom.

Optify is the leading provider of marketing software and services for the Real Time Web. Optify's hosted, easy-to-use platform enables businesses and online publishers to generate leads and more traffic through organic search and social media, create and manage social media campaigns, prioritize visitors and leads, and track and share results with simple but powerful enterprise scale reporting. Optify was founded in 2008 by Brian Goffman and Erez Barak and is funded by Madrona Venture Group, Triangle Peak Partners and prominent angels. They are located in Seattle, Washington with offices in Silicon Valley and Israel. They have a superstar team with experience at top companies including Microsoft, HP, Amazon.com, Zillow, Whitepages.com, and many others.

Bevy, Inc. develops mobile consumer social shopping service. The firm helps people to discuss and discover products with people they trust. The company was founded by Kevin Foreman and Brian Goffman in September 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Reuters America Holdings, Inc. provides multi-media news reporting services. It also provides information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. The company is a subsidiary of Reuters Group Plc and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Warner Bros. The company is based in Cupertino, CA. Discovery, Inc., PointCast, Inc. is a company that provides news and information services via the Web. The company was founded by Christopher Hassett, Gregory Hassett. PointCast was acquired by Launchpad Technologies, Inc. on May 11, 1999.