Russell Glass

Who is Russell Glass?

Russell Glass is the GM and SVP of ZoomInfo's Search business unit.

He is responsible for product management and marketing for

www.zoominfo.com, as well as developing the business plan and managing

the rollout of ZoomInfo's advertising products. In this role, Glass'

team launched the world's first business information search engine and

continues to enhance the user experience while increasing traffic to

the site. Under his leadership, in April 2007 ZoomInfo.com was ranked

the fastest growing network in the country, with 276% annual growth by

Nielsen/NetRatings.

Previously, Glass was vice

president of products and marketing, and was responsible for ZoomInfo's

yearly marketing-driven revenue and product management. In that

capacity, he increased lead generation revenues by over 600% while

cutting costs and launched six new products in two years.

Prior

to joining ZoomInfo, Glass was the CEO and founder of AGEA Corporation,

a wireless middleware and messaging company that he led to an

acquisition by Avalon Digital Marketing Systems.

Glass is a semi-prolific blogger,

is quoted often in the media and has spoken at industry conferences

including DEMO 2007, Red Herring CMO and the 2007 Semantic Technology

Conference. He has BSE from Duke University in Mechanical Engineering

and Economics.