Groupsite.com (formerly known as CollectiveX) is the Web’s premier social collaboration platform. Groupsites embody the Web's evolution into a social-collaborative medium by combining the most useful and productive offerings of social networking and collaboration tools. Groupsite features include discussion forums, group blogs, email blast functionality, calendars, file storage, photo galleries, member profiles, and more. In mere minutes, Groupsites allow individuals within organizations, companies, and communitites to create social networks and collaborative workspace that enable groups members to communicate, share, and network. Today 30,000+ Groupsites are in use by professional and social groups of all types and sizes.
Clarence has more than 20 years of experience in launching and operating successful companies including Envision Designs, Metamorphosis Interactive Studios (acquired by Metasolv in 1998) and ImageCafe.com (acquired by Network Solutions/Verisign in 1999). Clarence was coined a "serial entrepreneur" by Entrepreneur Magazine (February 2000), has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Forbes ASAP and is the subject of a Babson College case study. In each of his entrepreneurial endeavors, Clarence has been focused on user experience design, which served as the catalyst behind the development of the Groupsite platform. Clarence has a B.S. in Business Management from John Hopkins University and currently serves on the Deans Alumni Advisory Board for its Carey Business School.
Shaun has more than 25 years of business development, sales, sales management and sales training experience. Prior to Groupsite.com, Shaun led sales efforts at companies such as Digex, CheckFree, USinternetworking, Client Development Institute, High Performance Group and EntreQuest. As the head of Groupsite Pro sales and channel partner business development efforts, Shaun is focused on helping customers achieve a stronger return on involvement. He is highly engaged in the Groupsite.com Champions community, fostering users’ and advocates’ enthusiasm for powerful collaboration tools. Shaun’s energy and leadership can be traced back to his days at the US Naval Academy were he indoctrinated new academy plebes.
Bryan has more than 15 years of systems and software development experience, maintaining his focus on writing more productive software the first time. Prior to joining Groupsite.com, Brian led the software development efforts at Sourcefire in his role as Principal Web Developer. A staunch Rubiest, Bryan is a noted speaker at Ruby on Rails technology conferences and serves as a mentor to many Maryland-area Ruby on Rails (RoR) software developers. Bryan’s strong communication skills, deep system administration and software development experience enables him to lead the development efforts of the Groupsite.com platform. Under Bryan’s leadership, Groupsite.com has built a solid foundation positioning the Company to scale its development team and platform development efforts.
Diana has over 16 years experience in business and consumer marketing, including planning, resource management and tactical implementation. Executions of her marketing plans ($150,000 - $2.5 million, annually) have supported sales strategies in companies as large as the NASDAQ listed RCN Corporation. During her tenure with the software/systems developer Dakota Imaging, she oversaw marketing and communication efforts as the company grew from private capitalization until its successful acquisition by WebMD Corporation.
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