Richard K Howe has previously served in and founded various technology, information and analytics companies. In the years prior to becoming the CEO of Inuvo.com (AMEX: INUV) Richard served as Chief Marketing/Business Strategy and M&A Officer at the Acxiom Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM), a $1.4 billion annual revenue global interactive marketing services company.
While at Acxiom, he had been responsible for building the company’s Asia Pacific business, consulting business, targeted display advertising business and for managing the information products and analytics business. Richard has been on the forefront of Internet innovation and marketing for over 15 years.
Within online advertising, Richard has lead business initiatives across channels that include eMail, Display, Mobile, Search and Affiliate marketing. While he considers himself an entrepreneur by vocation, his experience canvases businesses both big and small with a passion for technology and creativity that addresses inefficiencies within marketing.
Since joining Inuvo in December of 2008, Rich has transformed the management team and board of directors, established a technology vision, restructured the companies debt financing with Wachovia, sold non strategic businesses, closed non-performing businesses, raised $4.2 million dollars through an oversubscribed round of equity financing, grown revenue as of Q3 2010, by 53% year over year and increased shareholder value 7X.
In 2010, Inuvo has been transformed into one of the fastest growing micro-cap companies in the online media / marketing services sector where they compete with other public companies like; ICLK, MCHX, VCLK, LOOK, DRIV, INSP, KNOT, LOCM. During this transition, Inuvo has also in-sourced approximately 200 jobs to Tampa, Florida. Rich's Blog can be read at the Inuvo.com web site under CEO connection.
Under Rich's leadership, Inuvo is fast becoming a leading innovator of online marketing technology and services designed to provide advertisers with greater efficiency and ROI.
Your new platform shows promise, but speaking as both a publisher and advertiser, you have some usability problems. I would imagine that your rate of people who sign up, and then go no further is much higher than you would like.
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