| Name: | Dan Wagner |
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| Current Position: | CEO | |
| Current Organisation: | Venda Limited |
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| Previous Position: | Founder CEO | |
| Previous Organisation: | MAID/Dialog Plc | |
| Background: | Created the concept of on-line business information in 1985 and founded MAID in that year. Responsible for the development, growth, strategy and sales of the business building it from zero to capture over 3.5% of the on-line data market against fierce (and well funded) competitors including Reuters, Dow Jones, Pearson, Lockheed, Knight Ridder and Reed Elsevier. Major clients included over 50% of the Fortune 1000 companies.
Through a planned acquisition of the largest competitor became the CEO of the global leader in the provision of managed corporate data and content to over 20,000 corporations worldwide and over 1 million users (Sales $300 million, 1,400 employees). Managed the successful integration of the MAID business into Dialog including streamlining the business by stripping out 33% of the combined cost base within the first 3 months. Merged two very different corporate cultures, migrated the existing Dialog databases and professional information solutions to the Internet and turned a loss making business into a profitable market leader with a 25% share and EBITDA of $63 million. Responsible for personally brokering the ground breaking deal to license Dialog technology (InfoSort) to Fujitsu of Japan hailed by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as a major milestone in UK/Japanese trade relations. Many other strategic alliances forged over the company’s history including: IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Nokia, British Telecom, AltaVista, AOL/CompuServe where partner companies relied upon electronic content provision by MAID/Dialog. (E.g. MAID/Dialog provides all newspaper archives on AOL/CompuServe). In 2000 achieved the successful disposal of the Information Services Division to The Thomson Corporation of Canada allowing the creation of Bright Station plc – an Internet and eCommerce focused technology holding company and incubator. In May 2000, acquired the assets of failed fashion 'etailer' Boo.com and absorbed them into Bright Station. |
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| Current: | Took Bright Station private from the LSE and NASDAQ in April 2001 and now trade as a private company with two direct investment activities; Venda and Locayta, both of which provide software as services - rented to customers but managed and operated by us.
Venda provides cost effective and highly sophisticated business commerce solutions on a totally managed basis. With no upfront costs, customers simply pay a moderate monthly fee for the service inclusive of design, implementation, equipment, hosting, bandwidth and transaction activity. Customers include Xerox, BBC, British Telecom, Mothercare, NTL, Ted baker. Wickes. Panasonic, Universal and many others. Locayta is a highly configurable plug-in search, personalisation and retrieval technology. It is able to integrate with many different types of applications such as eCommerce systems, content and knowledge management systems, web-servers and database applications. Specifically, Locayta is focused on the following product areas: - providing fast and accurate product search functionality to eCommerce sites, where our technology provides a significant ROI by dramatically increasing the search:sale ratio of an eCommerce site. - providing database optimisation to existing database systems, allowing them to be used for what they are designed for (i.e. transactional processing) and at the same time providing the database with the best searching capability available. - providing the best possible information retrieval systems for web-sites, intranets, databases, knowledge management and content management systems. Locayta's unique technology enables any organisation to get control of all of its information. |
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