Lynda Clarizio, CEO
Lynda Clarizio, CEO, joined INVISION in 2009, bringing over ten years of outstanding management experience in the digital media industry growing and scaling advertising technology businesses. Prior to joining INVISION, Lynda served as President of AOL’s Platform-A, the industry’s largest digital advertising platform. Lynda also served as President of Advertising.com, managing the industry’s largest third party online advertising network. (Advertising.com previously was operated as an independent subsidiary of AOL and became part of Platform-A.) Lynda held several other positions at AOL, which she joined in 1999. Lynda was the Executive Vice President of AOL’s Audience Business responsible for strategy, finance and business development. She also was AOL’s Senior Vice President for corporate strategic and financial planning and Senior Vice President for acquisitions and strategic investments. While in the latter role, she led AOL’s acquisition of Advertising.com. Lynda was named one of 2008’s “Women to Watch” by Advertising Age and one of 2009’s “25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment” by Digital Media Wire. Lynda is a 1985 graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1982 graduate of Princeton University.
Tom Fitzsimmons, Chief Financial Officer
Tom Fitzsimmons, Chief Financial Officer, brings over 15 years of financial and operational management expertise coupled with exceptional people and communication skills. Tom has served in a variety of roles including: Finance / HR, Client Services, Sales, Operations and Information Technology both in entrepreneurial environments and at the divisional level of major public corporations. His width of business experience will directly support the company's ongoing business growth objectives. Tom holds a B.S. from Iona College and has attended Columbia University.
Dwight Gibbs, Chief Information Officer
Dwight Gibbs, Chief Information Officer, joined Invision in 2010, bringing more than 20 years of technology management experience. Prior to joining Invision, Dwight served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at INPUT where he was responsible for technology operations and strategy. Previously Dwight worked for Legg Mason Capital Management as Chief Technology Officer, where he rebuilt an in-house technology platform to provide best-in-class systems and services to internal and external clients. Before that he was the Director of Technology Acceleration at Capital One. In this position he worked directly with the CTO to develop technology strategy and evaluate new technology. Previously, Dwight was the CIO of TextOre, Inc., a Northrop Grumman backed text mining company, and CTO of The Motley Fool, Inc., an online investment educator. Dwight holds an MBA degree from Georgetown University; an MS in Management Information Systems from The University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce; and a BS in Commerce from The University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce.
Jennifer New, Vice President, Product Management
Jennifer New brings more than twelve years of experience building advertising sales solutions and managing client relationships in linear television. She is one of the industry’s leading experts on the development and implementation of integrated systems for advertising sales and commercial operations. For the past four years, New has been Senior Product Engineer at Sintec Media. Previously she spent eight years at Management Science Associates (MSA), where she held several roles including Director of Client Operations, Product Management and Account Management for the Gabriel system, serving as managing director for three of MSA’s business units and responsible for product design, implementation and account management for Gabriel’s clients. Jennifer is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
Ashley Barretto, Senior Vice President, Client Services
Ashley Barretto, Senior Vice President, Client Services, is a systems professional with over 20 years of experience in project and service management. Ashley manages all of the staff members responsible for installing, training and supporting all DealMaker installations. His industry experience includes various project and product management positions at CBS Broadcasting and Omnibus Automation Systems.
Michael Zablocki, Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Michael Zablocki, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, joined INVISION after a 10 year career at Princeton, NJ based Nesbit Systems, where he served as VP Sales & Marketing. For over 12 years, prior to Nesbit, he held sales, traffic, finance, systems, merchandising and strategic planning positions at NBC, Inc. Mike is responsible for new business development and the marketing of INVISION’s DealMaker line of strategic software products and services.
John Parks, Vice President, Television Development
John Parks, Vice President, Television Development is a systems professional with over 21 years of experience in software design and development. John has been instrumental in defining the current technical architecture for DealMaker as well as its future direction. John has worked on media industry systems for over ten years and his prior experience as a system architect at S1 Corporation and Andersen Consulting brings a breadth and depth of experience critical to INVISION's success. John holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Christopher Passante, Vice President, Digital Development
Christopher Passante, most recently served as Chief Architect of AOL Advertising, where he architected major ad server migration and integration programs for multiple acquired ad serving companies. Previously he was Director of Development at Appix, managing the development of mortgage-backed securities allocation systems. Passante also held several positions at startup ventures. As a consultant, he developed first generation products for MobilePosse Inc. and Gamefly Inc. He served as Architect at eToys.com, where he developed the site’s search engine, and a Senior Software Engineer and later Director of Development at CitySearch.com, where he built the first major local city guide on the web. Chris holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Florida State University and an M.S. in Computer Science from California State University – Fullerton.
John MacDonald, Vice President, Development
John MacDonald, Vice President, Product Management and Development is a systems professional with over 19 years of experience in the design, development, implementation and management of enterprise wide software. John has been in the media industry for 10 years and was involved in the design and development of many of the critical components of DealMaker. John later was responsible for managing the product architecture group in the company and now has responsibility for the product development group which includes business analysts, architecture and developers. Prior to INVISION, John worked for IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Florida and did post graduate studies at Duke University in Computer Science.
Bob Schmidt PMP, Vice President, Production Systems
Bob Schmidt PMP, Vice President, Production Systems, is a veteran systems professional with over 30 years of experience in project management and systems analysis. Bob oversees all Quality Assurance activities in support of INVISION products and is responsible for the planning, scheduling and implementation of all software releases. Bob maintains Project Management certification from PMI and his industry experience includes system development and management projects for Broadcast Music Inc (BMI), Simon & Schuster, and ABC.