Prior to founding CCM, Mr. Martin headed operations at Overstock.com as the company’s COO / GMM. Mr. Martin joined Overstock as one of the company’s early employees and, as such, played an integral role in growing the company from $70m in revenue to over $800m – taking the company public in the process (NASDAQ: OSTK).

Leading up to Overstock, Mr. Martin was part of Gear.com (funded by Amazon.com), which he helped grow from an early stage startup to the largest sporting goods closeout e-commerce website before its sale to Overstock.com in 2000. Additionally, Mr. Martin was a member of the Olympic bid committee responsible for bringing the 2002 Olympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City.

Mr. Martin is recognized as an expert in e-commerce, Internet marketing, analytics and data integration, and has been cited in several major industry publications. Mr. Martin earned a Six Sigma Black Belt and applied the methodology to operations at Overstock. Mr. Martin holds a B.A. in English from the University of Utah.

Ms. Messer brings to CCM a wealth of experience in the online marketing industry. Ms. Messer, along with her brother, Stephen Messer, founded, built and managed LinkShare Corporation, a pioneer in performance based online marketing solutions, until its sale in 2005 for $425m. Ms. Messer served as LinkShare’s President and COO.

Ms. Messer is recognized as an authority on online marketing and is a frequent speaker at major industry events. She is often referenced in written trade publications and has appeared on national television and radio programs.

Ms. Messer received a B.A. from Brown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She obtained her J.D. from Harvard Law School graduating cum laude.

Before becoming involved with CCM, Mr. Messer served as the Chairman and CEO of LinkShare until its sale to Rakuten for $425m in 2005. Under Mr. Messer’s leadership, LinkShare was recognized by Deloitte and Touche for two consecutive years as the fastest growing technology company in the New York Region. In 2005, Mr. Messer was awarded the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the New York Region.

Mr. Messer is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Columbia University Institute of Tele-Information (CITI) and is considered an expert in cyber-communications and telecommunications.

He holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and a B.A. from Lafayette University.

Prior to joining the CCM team, Mr. Martinov managed, designed, developed, and implemented various business intelligence and analytics solutions with both start-up and Fortune 500 companies, including Priceline.com, Linkshare, FedEx, Chase, and General Motors. Mr. Martinov has served on the advisory boards of Informatica Corporation, Siebel Systems, Inc and IBM.

Mr. Martinov is the Team Leader for United States Canoe & Kayak National Team.

Prior to CCM, Mr. Fischer was VP, Account Director at Deutsch Advertising where he was responsible for managing the Tylenol brand. Mr. Fischer’s 12 years of experience at agencies like TBWA/Chiat/Day, Cliff Freeman & Partners, and Deutsch, has made him an expert in Brand Strategy and Integrated Media Management. In addition to Tylenol, Mr. Fischer has influenced a broad range of brands such as Sony PlayStation, Fox Sports, Turner Broadcasting, Snapple, ASICS, Mars Inc., and Moet Hennessy.

Mr. Fischer holds a B.A. from Colgate University.

Prior to joining the CCM team, Ms. Romano worked for the City of New York where she managed and executed logistically intensive, high-profile events for the Mayor’s Office, as well as multi-million dollar projects coordinated across multiple City agencies.

Ms. Romano graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from Brown University, and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Prior to joining CCM, Ms. Zinberg served as SVP at Citigroup, leading customer growth and engagement strategies for Citi Cards and Citi's loyalty program, ThankYou Rewards. Throughout her career, Ms. Zinberg has cultivated expertise in business strategy, project management and loyalty marketing. Before her tenure at Citi, Ms. Zinberg worked at Digitas, where she managed the American Express Proprietary Lending and Co-Brand Card Product accounts.

Ms. Zinberg holds a B.S. from Boston University.

Prior to CCM, Mr. Louie was a full-time PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University where he utilized computational models to study decision making in social contexts and the dynamics of social networks. Mr. Louie’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Research Laboratories. 

Mr. Louie holds a B.S. in Computer Science and is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University.