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Provides an online sale of baby care necessities.
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Address: | Montclair, NJ 07042 NY Metro |
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Company URL: | http://www.diapers.com |
If you are interested in joining the Diapers.com team, view the job descriptions below and submit your resume to careers@diapers.com.
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Accel Partners,Bessemer Venture Partners,New Enterprise Associates, Inc.,Strategic Venture Mgmt. Advisors (FKA: MentorTech Ventures)
Marc LoreCo-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
Marc Lore was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Wizkids, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Topps Company, Inc. (NASD: TOPP) and a leading game manufacturer. Prior to joining Wizkids, Marc was the co-founder and CEO of The Pit, Inc., an Internet market-making collectible company constructed as an alternative to eBay. The Pit, Inc. was successfully sold to the then publicly traded Topps Company in 2001.
Prior to ThePit, Marc held various investment banking positions, including as Executive Vice President of Sanwa International Bank in London where he was head of the bank's Risk Management Division. Before Sanwa, he was Vice President and Global Head of Emerging Markets Risk Department at Credit Suisse First Boston in London.
In 2000, he was named by The Sunday Times Magazine of London as one of Britain's top ten "new high-tech entrepreneurs and whiz kids."
Marc graduated from Bucknell University, where he received a B.A. in Business Management/Economics, cum laude, and is currently on leave from the Wharton University School of Business MBA program. He is also a C.F.A. (Chartered Financial Analyst).
Marc has two young daughters, Sierra and Sophia, with his wife, Carolyn.
Vinit BhararaCo-Founder, Chief Operating Officer & Board Director
Vinit Bharara was previously the General Counsel of the then publicly traded The Topps Company, Inc, the leading manufacturer of sports trading cards and novelty confectionary (e.g., Bazooka gum and Ring Pop, Push Pop and Baby Bottle Pop). Vinit managed the entire legal function of the 500 employee worldwide company and its subsidiaries. Prior to that, he was a co-founder, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Pit, Inc. which was successfully sold to Topps.
He was previously part of a team that assisted court-appointed Special Master Judah Gribetz, former deputy mayor of New York City and counsel to former New York Governor Carey, in drafting the historic distribution plan for the $1.25 billion settlement reached in the class action lawsuits initiated by victims of the Nazi Holocaust against the Swiss banks. He began his legal career at the Wall Street law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York.
Vinit graduated from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar in 1993-94 and a research assistant to the former dean. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude and phi beta kappa.
Vinit and his wife, Veenu, have one daughter, Kareena, and one son, Kavi.
Lisa KennedyExecutive Vice President, eCommerce
At Diapers.com Lisa is responsible for all front end functions including marketing, merchandising, business development, analytics, and user experience.
Ms. Kennedy has held a variety of positions in media and consumer packaged goods. Lisa was VP of Business Development and Operations at Scholastic, where she was responsible for incubating and launching Scholastic's most successful online subscription business for teachers. Prior to Scholastic, Lisa was General Manager of The Parenting Group, a division of Time Warner, and also a key member of the Corporate Strategic Planning team.
Lisa spent three years with Diageo Plc, starting as vice president, strategy for their Guinness Bass Import Company. She also served as vice president, sales and business development for Guinness World Records where she drove the launch of the company's web site, and managed all activities related to the core book, licensing and TV businesses. Her varied business experience also includes a stint as investment officer for the Czech-American Enterprise Fund in Prague, four years with Monitor, a management consulting company, and two years as a financial analyst with Goldman Sachs.
She received her Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, and her BA (Cum Laude) in Economics and International Relations from Boston University.
Lisa and her husband, Seamus, live in Manhattan with their children Aisling (pronounced Ash-ling) and Joseph Thomas.
Scott HiltonExecutive Vice President of Operations
Scott spent the last 20 years at The Boeing Company, where he recently led a comprehensive effort targeting improved productivity, capacity and operational efficiency of the air transportation system and airline flight operations. He worked several years as a product strategist where he led numerous teams in the development and early implementation of new products and services and regularly participated in and led executive-level decisions that were the subject of internal board discussions and approval.
Scott has held numerous other positions at Boeing including leading an effort to transform and streamline a segment of company investment decisions, managing the operations of a testing facility, and directing a research and development staff.
Scott received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating as a Palmer Scholar (top 5% of his class) and was named the General Motors Scholar while earning a Master of Engineering degree in Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in both Physics and Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound graduating with Honors in Physics.
Eugene HertzChief Information Officer
Prior to joining diapers.com, Eugene was the head of information technology for The Topps Company, Inc., a $300 million dollar, publicly traded marketer and distributor of entertainment cards and confections. Under Eugene's leadership, the company completely revamped all areas of IT including a new redundant network infrastructure and the introduction of a major ERP system to replace outmoded legacy mainframe systems.
Prior to Topps, Eugene was VP, CIO of Thepit.com, where he led the design and development of a sophisticated online stock exchange for sports cards. The exchange was a full-featured brokerage operation as well as trading desk for market making functions where company traders made markets guaranteeing liquidity. Thepit was acquired by Topps in 2001.
Before joining Thepit, Eugene was senior manager, products and platforms for DLJdirect, a leading online and full service securities dealer and brokerage firm. At DLJdirect, he had responsibility for strategy and development for all retail trading systems including dljdirect.com, Marketspeed ™, wireless trading, and international trading of US securities (for UK, Hong Kong, Japan and Middle East).
Eugene came to DLJdirect from Bowne Internet Solutions, a full service strategic web application development consultancy where he was CTO. As a co-founder of the company's internet practice, Eugene oversaw the acquisition of 6 other web development firms and oversaw all technology aspects of the 200 person firm.
Eugene has a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Eugene and his wife, Jill, are the proud parents of Max and Abbey.
John K. AndersonSenior Vice President, Human Resources
John K. Anderson comes to Quidsi from his own Human Resources consulting firm where he has helped companies with a variety of short and long-term board or management assignments involving compensation structure, workforce restructuring, acquisitions and integration as well as start-up HR function support. Prior to running his own consulting practice, John was Vice President, Human Resources for Fox Interactive Media leading such properties as MySpace, IGN Entertainment, AmericanIdol.com and FoxSports.com through explosive growth. Before Fox Interactive Media, John held senior-level HR positions at Trigo Technologies, Siebel Systems, GetThere, Inc., Memco Software and Oracle Corporation.
John graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he received at B.A. in Psychology. Originally from Chicago, John is moving to Manhattan from San Francisco.
Christina CarbonellVP, Marketing
Before joining the company in 2007, Christina was Director of Marketing for SAI Global, a fast-growing multinational corporation specializing in corporate compliance e-learning programs.
Prior to that, she worked in the consumer packaged goods world as a Brand Manager for Kraft Foods, working on products like Maxwell House, Fruity Pebbles, and Kraft Salad Dressing. From "Good to the Last Drop" advertising, to cool kid cereal promos, to distribution channel strategies, her responsibilities were wide-ranging and all about building big brands.
Christina earned a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1995. She earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 2000.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband Jose and their children Olivia and Max.
David LicataVP, Accounting & Finance
Prior to joining Quidsi, David was a manager in the Transaction Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Manhattan, NY. During his 6 years at PwC, David worked on over 25 transactions across various industries, representing both financial and strategic buyers and sellers in acquisitions and divestitures ranging from $10m to $2b. David spent his first 18 months at PwC performing financial statement audits of primarily banking industry clients.
David is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York State and graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 2001, where he earned his B.S. in Accounting and Finance and graduated beta gamma sigma.
David lives with his wife Lena in Nutley, NJ and enjoys playing golf and snowboarding in his free time.
Jeremy LevineBoard Director
Jeremy is a Partner with Bessemer Venture Partners. He focuses primarily on software and Internet investments.
Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was Vice President of Operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher. Jeremy joined Dash from AEA Investors, a private equity firm with an expertise in leveraged and management buyouts, where he specialized in consumer products and light industrials in the U.S. and in Europe. Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, helping Fortune 500 financial services and consumer products companies address challenges in strategy and technology.
Jeremy graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics.
Leonard LodishBoard Director & Investor
Leonard Lodish, a chaired Marketing Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was the former Chairman of the school's Marketing Department. He is now the Vice Dean of Wharton West and the leader of Wharton's Global Consulting Practicum that works with venture backed technology companies in Israel, Chile, Peru, Spain, China and India. A prolific author, Professor Lodish is internationally known for creating numerous marketing decision support systems as well as his research on marketing experimentation, entrepreneurial marketing, expert systems in marketing, and promotion and advertising decision support. He consults extensively with corporations around the world, and has worked with Procter & Gamble, Conagra and Merck, assisting them with marketing strategy, advertising and promotion decision support, among other issues. He is a director of numerous public companies including Information Resources, Inc., Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., and J&J Snack Foods, Inc.
William Meurer Board Director
Mr. Meurer is a General Partner at BEV Capital. Prior to BEV, he was a Senior Manager with the Boston Consulting Group and a leader within the firm's Consumer Goods and Retail practice group. He began his career in Brand Management with Nabisco Brands, Inc. Mr. Meurer's primary areas of investment focus include the consumer sector as well as technology-driven marketing services companies. Mr. Meurer's other Board responsibilities include: eNewsRelease, a developer of innovative PR applications; MaxPreps, an online high school sports media site, Bendon Publishing, a publisher of children's coloring and activity books, and Private Quarters, a direct seller of bed & bath textiles. Mr. Meurer holds a BA with honors from Dartmouth College as well as an MBA from the Harvard Business School.