Jake Winebaum

Who is Jake Winebaum?

Jake Winebaum is President of RHD Interactive and was the Founder and

Chief Executive of Business.com. Jake is also Co-Founder of eCompanies

which, in addition to Business.com, founded Jamdat (JMDT, sold to EA),

Boingo, USBX Advisory Services, LLC and was the lead investor in Lower

My Bills (sold to Experian).

Prior to

Business.com and eCompanies, Jake held several senior management

positions at The Walt Disney Company including: Chairman of Buena Vista

Internet Group (BVIG) overseeing Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com,

ABC.com, and Family.com, President of Disney Online, where he led the

team that developed and executed the expansion of the Disney brand onto

the Internet beginning in 1994, and President of Walt Disney Magazine

Publishing. He also founded both FamilyFun and FamilyPC magazines and

served as President, Editor and Publisher of both publications. Jake

sold FamilyFun to The Walt Disney Company in 1992.

Prior

to FamilyFun, Jake served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at U.S.

News World Report. He also founded and served as President of

U.S. News Productions, a television production company. Prior to that

position, Jake worked for Time Warner at Fortune and Time magazines.

Jake's

expertise and contributions to the Internet industry have been

recognized by Time magazine, which awarded him a place in the Top 50

Cyber Elite, and Wired Magazine, which named him one of the Wired 25.

He is a Director of USBX, and until its recent sale to Scripps, Jake

was a Director of Shopzilla/Bizrate.com. He is the Founding Chairman of

Seven Arrows Elementary School, and currently serves on the California

Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Jake is married and

the father of two daughters. He is a Dartmouth College graduate.