Seth Haberman founded Visible World in 2000, with the goal of transforming advertising production and delivery to achieve greater relevance and effectiveness. With a track record of success marked by milestones including an Emmy Award and his work with today’s largest companies and advertising executives, Haberman has far exceeded that goal. Under his vision and leadership, Visible World has emerged as a technology leader in the field of advanced video advertising, by enabling new levels of automation and efficiency in the identification of audiences and customization, trafficking and delivery of video ads. In the first decade of Visible World’s history, Haberman has not only built the company into a successful industry leader, but also sparked the evolution that is transforming the future of television advertising. Among his key achievements are Visible World’s Technology & Engineering Emmy awarded in 2007 for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising. Haberman is routinely sought after for media and event insights. He was featured in Details 2007 Mavericks Issue, and Media recognized him in 2004 as part of the magazine’s “Top100 People to Know in Media.” His innovative approach to video advertising has been recognized by leading industry experts including media industry visionary Jack Myers, who identified Visible World as one of the top 25 media innovators of 2003. Seth has been featured as a speaker at The MIT Forum, the RVC Technology Conference, and at the ANA's Advertising Management committee meeting on "Innovations that Marketers Must Be Familiar With." Prior to founding Visible World, Seth was the CEO of Montage Group, an innovator in non-linear editing, networking video and tactile feedback and licensor of technology to leading manufacturers such as Avid and Apple. Montage's innovative work earned and Academy Award for technological achievement in 1987 and several Emmy Awards.  

As Chairman of Visible World, Bill Katz has brought tremendous experience and insight to the company. His background and professional accomplishments have had wide-ranging, positive impacts on Visible World's perspective on both the art and science of advertising. He joined Visible World in 2005 and has since helped steer the company through one of its most exciting periods of growth. Prior to joining Visible World, Katz was President and Chief Executive Officer of BBDO Advertising in New York, where he led the agency to new financial and creative heights. Under his leadership, BBDO was widely recognized as the preeminent national creative advertising agency by multiple industry organizations for many years. Katz is a charter inductee to the Advertising Hall of Achievement and is considered an authority on marketing and advertising. He has made frequent appearances on national television to offer his perspective on the state of the advertising industry. During his tenure at Visible World, he has been instrumental in transforming the industry’s advertising production and delivery tools to achieve greater relevance and effectiveness. Under the direction of Katz and founder Seth Haberman, Visible World was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy in 2007 for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising.

Scott Falconer is Visible World’s Chief Operating Officer. Scott is an accomplished senior leader who consistently raises the performance of the organizations he leads. Prior to Visible World, Scott was the Executive Vice President of Operations at Nutrisystem, North America's largest home delivery weight loss company. Falconer and the team he recruited significantly revamped operations at Nutrisystem, resulting in company record levels of customer retention, contact center sales performance, and gross margin. Prior to Nutrisystem, Falconer was Executive Vice President at AOL and executive-in-charge of AOL Mobile where he developed AOL’s mobile strategy and launched a wide array of mobile services. He was also Executive Vice President of AOL Member Services, the business unit which interfaced with AOL's Internet access customer base. Scott and his Member Services team significantly contributed to AOL’s profit through its activities in acquiring, servicing, developing, and retaining customers. Prior to AOL, Falconer led the consumer division of NTL (since renamed Virgin Media), the United Kingdom's largest cable communications company. While at NTL, Falconer's consumer division launched interactive digital television and high speed Internet services, marketed “triple play” bundles to UK consumers, and integrated a multi-billion dollar acquisition. He also held senior marketing positions at Air Touch Communications, an international mobile services provider acquired by Vodafone in 1999. Prior to Air Touch, Scott was a Senior Associate at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an Associate at investment bank Goldman Sachs. Scott holds MBA and MS degrees from Stanford University and a BS degree in Operations Research from Cornell University.

Gerrit has a proven track record as a pioneer and a leader in the development of advanced digital video advertising technology. Gerrit brings to Visible World vast experience and expertise in the digital TV market, both in the US and Europe. He remains actively involved with the ongoing industry standards development efforts in both areas. Prior to joining Visible World, Gerrit was Vice President of Internet Technologies in the Consumer Electronics Business Group Digital Networks for Royal Philips Electronics N.V, where he initiated and launched many Philips products for the converging Internet-TV market, including MPEG-4 streaming solutions and Internet-enabled TV for customers like America Online (AOL TV). Prior to joining Philips, Gerrit was Engineering Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation (which was acquired by Compaq and has since merged with Hewlett-Packard). At DEC, Gerrit developed several new software products and extensions for the Digital Groupware product division.

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Todd Narwid is responsible for the growth and development of Visible World customers and revenue across both operator and advertiser lines of business. In Joining the Visible World team, Narwid brings notable experience in leading video-focused technology companies to realize new growth and market penetration, creating significant shareholder value. He has successfully held positions at both the executive sales leadership and general manager levels. Before coming to Visible World, Todd held a position as Vice President of New Media at NDS, a private Pay TV software company that has recently been acquired by Cisco. His work—where he drove new IPTV system sales and advanced advertising solutions—leveraged NDS’s leadership in pay TV systems software. Todd’s work resulted in new end-to-end operator systems agreements, new product deployment, and record revenue growth and customer acquisition in North America. Prior to working for NDS, Narwid led worldwide sales and marketing for Narrowstep, a publicly traded Internet TV SaaS provider acquired by KIT Digital.  Previous to Narrowstep, he was President of the Business Services Unit for RCN Cable, a public North American MSO, where he led the division to more than triple revenue growth and sustained profitability. Narwid also led the division’s M&A activities, culminating in the acquisition of Con Edison’s Metro Fiber Network business in 2006. Todd holds a BS in Education from George Mason University, where he earned the prestigious Academic All- American distinction in wrestling.

Claudio Marcus is Executive Vice President of Marketing and Research at Visible World. He is an expert in advertising, data-driven marketing and customer relationship management. Prior to joining Visible World, Claudio was vice president and research area leader for technology-enabled marketing at Gartner, the world’s largest information technology research and advisory firm. Before becoming an industry analyst, Claudio’s experience included 15 years working with world renowned brands as a database marketing consultant and database marketing software entrepreneur, as well as a marketing and advertising agency executive. Claudio has published numerous influential research reports on the subject of technology-enabled marketing, and has taught courses, published articles and a book about database marketing. Claudio is also the author of a chapter titled “The Reinvention of TV Advertising” for Kellogg on Advertising & Media (Wiley, 2008). Claudio earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences from the University of Illinois, and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Tom invests in venture and growth-oriented companies in the systems and components, software and business services sectors. Tom serves on the Boards of Directors of Adams Harris, Global MailExpress, Visible World and the IVCA. He is responsible for several successful investments, including ComScore, Creo Products, Depotech, Harris Interactive, IC Works, Jefferson Wells, Magnavox Electronic Systems, Netegrity, PathScale, SDL and WallData. Location: Chicago Year Joined: 1990 Previous Experience: Brinson Partners/UBS Global Asset Management Fairfield Venture Partners Hewlett Packard Academic: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB MIT Sloan School of Management, SM

Daniel is a Member of the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. and Co-Chair of its Venture Capital and Emerging Companies practice group. Daniel is also a Co-founder and Managing Director of Dawntreader Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. Additionally, Daniel is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the NYU Law School and author and Co-Editor of Venture Capital: Forms and Analysis, a leading treatise on venture capital published by the Law Journal Press. From 1999–2003, Daniel was Head of Venture Capital Funds and a Managing Director of SoundView Technology Group, Inc. (formerly Wit Capital), a technology-focused investment bank. Prior to joining SoundView, he was Head of the Corporate Group and the New Media and E-Law Group at one of the leading New York law firms representing early stage and technology companies. Daniel has more than 25 years of corporate transactional experience, both as a lawyer and as a businessman, and has been an advisor to many emerging and developmental stage companies. He is currently a board member of several technology companies. Daniel is admitted to practice in New York, California, and New Jersey. He received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania (1979) and his J.D from the University of Pennsylvania (1982).

Allison is Managing Director & Vice President of Time Warner Investments, where she is focused on equity investments in companies that directly enhance Time Warner's ability to meet specific strategic goals, including the delivery of new services, enhancement of an existing product, entry or expansion into a key strategic market, completion of a strategic partnership, and critical research and development. Prior to joining Time Warner in July 2001, Allison was an Associate at Groupe Arnault, investing in and managing new media and technology equity investments for the private holding company of the Chairman of LVMH. Previously, she worked in the Global Media Group, Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley where she worked on transactions for Time Warner, Viacom and Liberty Media. Allison serves as a director or active observer on the boards of several portfolio companies including Adaptive Blue (GetGlue), Audience Science, Everyday Health, Meebo, SiTV, Tremor Media, Trion Worlds and Visible World. Previous investments include Adify (sold to Cox) and MediaVast (sold to Getty Images). Allison currently serves on the board of the New York Private Equity Network (“NYPEN”), and co-founded the NYPEN Women’s Forum. Allison graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Seth Haberman founded Visible World in 2000, with the goal of transforming advertising production and delivery to achieve greater relevance and effectiveness. With a track record of success marked by milestones including an Emmy Award and his work with today’s largest companies and advertising executives, Haberman has far exceeded that goal. Under his vision and leadership, Visible World has emerged as a technology leader in the field of advanced video advertising, by enabling new levels of automation and efficiency in the identification of audiences and customization, trafficking and delivery of video ads. In the first decade of Visible World’s history, Haberman has not only built the company into a successful industry leader, but also sparked the evolution that is transforming the future of television advertising. Among his key achievements are Visible World’s Technology & Engineering Emmy awarded in 2007 for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising. Haberman is routinely sought after for media and event insights. He was featured in Details 2007 Mavericks Issue, and Media recognized him in 2004 as part of the magazine’s “Top100 People to Know in Media.” His innovative approach to video advertising has been recognized by leading industry experts including media industry visionary Jack Myers, who identified Visible World as one of the top 25 media innovators of 2003. Seth has been featured as a speaker at The MIT Forum, the RVC Technology Conference, and at the ANA's Advertising Management committee meeting on "Innovations that Marketers Must Be Familiar With." Prior to founding Visible World, Seth was the CEO of Montage Group, an innovator in non-linear editing, networking video and tactile feedback and licensor of technology to leading manufacturers such as Avid and Apple. Montage's innovative work earned and Academy Award for technological achievement in 1987 and several Emmy Awards.

David focuses his efforts in digital media, advertising, consumer Internet, education, and other relevant sectors. David also works closely with Genacast Ventures, a seed stage venture fund affiliated with Comcast Interactive Capital. David’s responsibilities at CV include sourcing new investment opportunities and advising and sitting on the board of CV portfolio companies. Prior to joining CV in 2000, David worked in the investment banking department at Bear Stearns, advising clients in the Media & Entertainment sector that included cable, broadcasting, publishing, education, advertising/marketing and Internet/new media, among others. David holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with highest honors from the University of Michigan with a concentration in Accounting and Finance. David serves on the Board of Directors of BlackArrow, JiWire, Perfect Market, SnagFilms, TidalTV, and Visible World and also serves as an observer on Double Verify, Ramp, and The Rubicon Project. David is also currently working with accelerator program SeedStart Media New York City which is affiliated with NY City Seed. David was previously involved in CV's investments in Demdex (acquired by Adobe), Entropic Communications (NASDAQ: ENTR), Giant Realm (acquired by Burst Media), Invite Media (acquired by Google), Intellon Corporation (NASDAQ: ITLN, acquired by Atheros Communications), Linkshare (acquired by Rakuten), Nuera Communications (acquired by AudioCodes), RF Magic (acquired by Entropic Communications), and XOS Technologies (acquired by JumpTV).

As Chairman of Visible World, Bill Katz has brought tremendous experience and insight to the company. His background and professional accomplishments have had wide-ranging, positive impacts on Visible World's perspective on both the art and science of advertising. He joined Visible World in 2005 and has since helped steer the company through one of its most exciting periods of growth. Prior to joining Visible World, Katz was President and Chief Executive Officer of BBDO Advertising in New York, where he led the agency to new financial and creative heights. Under his leadership, BBDO was widely recognized as the preeminent national creative advertising agency by multiple industry organizations for many years. Katz is a charter inductee to the Advertising Hall of Achievement and is considered an authority on marketing and advertising. He has made frequent appearances on national television to offer his perspective on the state of the advertising industry. During his tenure at Visible World, he has been instrumental in transforming the industry’s advertising production and delivery tools to achieve greater relevance and effectiveness. Under the direction of Katz and founder Seth Haberman, Visible World was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy in 2007 for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising.