Execs & Accounts: Scott Meyer, Microsoft, Rodale
Former About.com CEO becomes entrepreneur-in-residence at Warburg in New York; Microsoft and Rodale enter a contextual and paid search advertising relationship.
Former About.com CEO Scott Meyer signed on as entrepreneur-in-residence with Warburg Pincus. Meyer left About.com in late February, after being with the New York Times Company since 2000.
Rodale tapped Microsoft to represent contextual and paid search ad inventory. The relationship is focused on advertising for Rodale’s health and wellness Web sites.
David Garrity was named CFO of interCLICK. Most recently Garrity was managing director and director of research at Dinosaur Securities, a boutique investment bank. Previously he held posts at Investec, Caris & Company, and American Technology Research.
Gaming site Kongregate opened a New York ad sales office with Lisa Jablonsky as sales head. Jablonsky, East Coast director of sales, joins from Comedy Central. She was previously an account executive with MTV Networks, where she worked across all of its brands.
Wendy McKay, former Microsoft and AllRecipes.com executive, joined NaturalPath Media as sales director of the Western region. McKay was most recently director of sales at Microsoft. While there she sold the Atlas/APS ad service platform. She also worked as sales manager at AllRecipes.com.
