Craig Palli

Conversant LLC provides online advertising campaigns and programs for advertisers and advertising agency customers. The company's customers include direct marketers, brand advertisers, the advertising agencies, and traffic distribution partners. It offers products and services that enable marketers to engage with their current and potential customers online and through mobile devices. It operates through three business segments: Affiliate Marketing, Media and Owned & Operated Websites. The Affiliate Marketing segment enables customers to develop their own fully commissioned online sales force comprised of third party affiliate publishers. The Media segment provides digital marketing services and tailored programs that help marketers create and increase awareness for their products and brands through the internet and on mobile devices. The Owned & Operated Websites segment services are offered through transaction focused branded websites. The company was founded in April 1998 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

DirectoryM bridges the gap between users and the information resources provided by local businesses, advertisers, publishers, and event organizers. Founded in 1999 as rfpMarket, the company first developed and deployed private label e-marketplaces and business directories. Responding to customer demand, it re-launched in 2003 as DirectoryM with a focused business model and technology to connect service providers with local users actively seeking the solutions they supply. The first partner to join the DirectoryM network was American City Business Journals (ACBJ). In 2008, DirectoryM partnered with John Wiley & Sons, Inc, publishers of Cliffnotes and the For Dummies series. This partnership has allowed the delivery of relevant information about specific topics and businesses directly toward engaged users. With its headquarters located in downtown Boston, DirectoryM also has offices in China and Latin America, and continues to expand.

CityVoter, Inc. operates as a online media company, that runs localized social media promotions for geo-targeted communities. It builds image-based city guides for media companies interested in enhancing the local relevancy of websites and strengthening relationships with online communities. The company was founded by Jeremy Walker, Joshua Walker, Kathryn E. Maguire and Joe Sadowski in 2005 and is headquartered in Manchester, VT.

GDMServices, Inc. provides mobile marketing technology that connects brands, agencies, and application advertiser to targeted mobile audiences. Its mobile audience platform combines a massive, proprietary dataset with powerful segmentation tools to create, refresh, and reach audiences. The company was founded by Micah Alder and Mark Corner in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Testive, Inc. develops an online platform that enables students to prepare for SAT and ACT. Its platform provides personalized SAT and ACT preparation programs to students by pairing them with coaches. The company was founded by Miro Kazakoff, Tom Rose and Facundo Chamut in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Vivoom, Inc. provides mobile advertising platform services. It enables storytelling between advertisers and consumers at scale. The firm’s entire mobile marketing process from content creation, to targeting and distribution and then provides the reporting, moderation, curation and republishing capabilities brands need. The company was founded in 2014 by Meredith Hanrahan and Katherine Hays and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.