Mingle360 Welcomes Former SVP of BDMetrics to Its Advisory Board

Fairfax, VA, March 13, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Mingle360 welcomes former SVP of BDMetrics, John Barber, to Its Advisory Board. John served as Senior Vice President for Audience & Media at BDMetrics, an event-centric media company, where he grew online audiences of trade show attendees from zero to 3.5M unique users in three years. At BDMetrics, John pioneered recommendation engines and social discovery for engaging trade show attendees online and launched personalized event-planning portals, a proprietary search engine, event-centric e-newsletters, and other innovations, bringing the $10 billion trade show industry into the online media marketplace.

John also has a proven track record as a strategic technology marketer and has been responsible for management successes at Portal Software (Oracle), LANNET Data Communications (Avaya Communication), Cypress Semiconductor, and Octel Communications (Avaya Communication). Recently, as a consultant to Menlo Park, California-based startup uShow, John co-designed a disruptive technology platform combining online video, the semantic web, and social networks, which will launch in beta soon. John sits on the board of advisors of Fairfax, VA-based startup Zikzana. He holds a Masters degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley.

“We welcome John’s unique combination of online media and marketing expertise,” says Dan Coffing, CEO of Mingle 360. “He will play a key role in helping Mingle360 reinvent the way people connect both on- and off-line.”

To read the biographies of all of Mingle360’s advisors, please visit the Mingle360 website.

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