Heidi Messer
Heidi Messer | |
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Born |
Westchester, New York | August 28, 1969
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Brown University, Harvard Law School |
Occupation |
Co-founder, Chairman, Collective[i] Co-founder, CEO, World Evolved Co-founder, President and COO, LinkShare Corp. |
Website | collectivei |
Heidi Messer (born August 28, 1969) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor who has founded several global businesses, most notably LinkShare (sold in 2005 for $425 million) and Collective[i].[1][2][3] Messer served as a board member, President, and Chief Operating Officer of LinkShare, helping to create the sector of online marketing commonly referred to as affiliate marketing.[4][5]
Early life
Messer is the firstborn child of two entrepreneurs.[6] Her paternal and maternal grandparents were also entrepreneurs.[7] She grew up in Westchester, New York and attended Horace Greely High School in Chappaqua, New York.
College and law school
Messer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Brown University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.[8][9] She received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School graduating cum laude.[10] While at Harvard in the mid-1990s, Messer co-presented a paper to the recently appointed Justice Stephen Breyer on the impact of the Internet on existing legal frameworks.[11]
Career
Early career
Throughout high school and college, Messer worked in her family’s real estate and maintenance business. After graduating from Harvard, Messer accepted a position as an attorney at the law firm Baker & Botts, LLP in their New York office.[10]
LinkShare Corporation
In 1996, Messer and her brother Stephen Messer recognized a core problem that existed on the World Wide Web making it difficult to value online traffic.[12] They set out to create an online distribution network that would allow websites to monetize their traffic through performance based links.[13]
Messer served as President and COO of LinkShare until its sale in 2005 to Rakuten Inc. for $425 million.[14][15] In 2006, Messer exited the company, which was later renamed Rakuten LinkShare.[16][17]
Collective[i]
In 2008, Messer co-founded Cross Commerce Media with her husband, Tad Martin and brother.[18] She currently serves on its board of directors as the company’s Chairman.[19] Messer and her co-founders collaborated with leading data scientists and PhD-level technology developers in building Collective[i].[18]
In 2014, Messer was awarded two patents in conjunction with Collective[i]'s data analytics network. She is noted as a co-inventor for patent #8,713,076[20] and patent #8,825,716,[21] "Providing a Multi-Tenant Knowledge Network".
Angel investing, board affiliations and community involvement
Messer is co-founder and CEO of World Evolved, a platform for global investment and expansion.[22][23] She is also a founding member of the Zokei Network, an invitation only global network of leading artists, technologists, scientists, and business leaders who convene for inspiration in small private salons around the world.[7] Messer is an active angel investor in numerous startups including Spire,[24] Lifebooker, and DoDo Case.[25] Additionally, she serves on the board of Alliance Bernstein.[26][27]
Messer serves on the Brown Women’s Leadership Counsel[9] and advisory boards for Netplenish,[28] the Brown Entrepreneurship Program,[29][30] the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins,[31] Dell Computers,[32] NBC Universal,[33] and American Express OPEN.[34]
Messer’s mentors include Julian Brodsky (the co-founder of Comcast Corporation) and Richard Parsons (former Chairman of AOL Time Warner).[35]
Messer is active in the New York City tech community. She serves on the board of the Partnership for New York City and has been a judge and mentor in the NYC Venture Fellows Program.[36][37]
Speaking engagements and press
Messer is a frequent speaker at universities and conferences around the world on entrepreneurship, digital marketing and advertising, business intelligence, and the future of the Internet including DLD (Digital-Life-Design),[38] The Economist Group’s Technology Frontiers,[39][40] Big Data Innovation Summit,[41] Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference in Cologne,[42] Techonomy,[43][44] NAB Show,[45][46] Innovation Enterprise,[47] We Own It Summit,[48] Disrupt NY,[49][50] Founders@Fail, the Paley Center for Media,[51] Entrepreneur Week,[52] Techweek New York,[53] NJ Tech Gals,[7] The Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network,[54][55] Hot Topics,[56][57] The Committee of 200,[58] Inc. Women’s Summit,[59] OnMedia NYC Summit,[60] and the Wall Street Journal CIO Network.[2][61]
As a guest speaker, Messer has presented at Baruch College, Columbia Business School, and Fordham University.[62][63] She has been cited in various publications including, The Wall Street Journal,[64] The New York Times,[65][66] USA Today,[67] Inc. Magazine,[68] Forbes,[69][70] The Nikkei, Bloomberg Businessweek,[71] Women’s Wear Daily,[72] Chief Executive Magazine,[73] and Wired.[74]
Messer is also known as the host of an exclusive all female Poker game, featured in Vogue as a new model for combining networking, idea sharing, and charitable giving similar to the intellectual salons of the past.[15][75] Additionally, Messer has appeared on national television and radio programs including the Today Show,[76] Rock Center,[77] Business Talk Radio, Fox News, CBS Morning News, and the Fox Morning Show.[2][78][79]
Messer and her brother Stephen were featured in the Startup Playbook by David Kidder along with Elon Musk, Tony Hsieh, Steve Case, Jay S. Walker, Reid Hoffman, and Sara Blakely.[80][81] She has also been cited in An Incredible Dream: Ralph Roberts and the Story of Comcast by William Novak and Stiletto Network by Pamela Ryckman.[82][83]
In 2011 Messer organized an art exhibit held at the Charles Bank Gallery in New York City.[84] The show, entitled Celestial Matters, featured works of art that had only previously been displayed in an exhibition hosted during a private mission on the International Space Station. The reception for these works benefited the Challenger Center for Space Science Exploration and featured the astronaut Buzz Aldrin.[85]
Messer served on the 2012 Wall Street Journal Executive Task Force on Women and participated in the 2014 Wall Street Journal CIO Network as a subject matter expert.[2][64][86][87]
In 2013, Messer was selected to serve as a member of Comptroller Scott Stringer’s Transition Committee.[88]
Awards and honors
In 2012, Messer was selected as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs as part of their Builders and Innovators Summit.[89] Additionally, Messer was named one of the 2012 Power Players in New York City by AlwaysOn.[90]
Under Messer’s leadership, LinkShare was recognized by Deloitte & Touche in 2002 and 2003 as the fastest growing technology company in the New York Region. In 2002, LinkShare was also named the Best Affiliate Network Provider by ABestWeb.[10][91]
In both 2012 and 2013, Messer's current venture, Collective[i], was selected as one of OnMedia’s 100 Top Private Companies.[92][93]
Collective[i] was the 2014 Gold Stevie Award winner in the Business Intelligence Solution category as part of the 8th Annual Stevie® Awards for Sales and Customer Service.[94][95] Collective[i] was also a finalist for the 2014 Inaugural Stratus Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group.[96]
In 2015, Collective[i] was named an OnCloud Top 100 private company under the 'Software-as-a-Service solution for big data analytics' category.[97][98]
November 19th, 2015 Messer received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Technology Pioneer Award at the United Nations
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