As VP of Sales Chris will focus on increasing monetization of SourceForge's web properties. Dobbrow brings more than 20 years of sales and management experience in technology media to SourceForge including over 16 years at Ziff Davis where he served as executive & senior vice president overseeing PC Magazine PC Computing eWEEK Corporate Sales and Integrated Media Solutions. Most recently Dobbrow was vice president of partnerships at BrightTALK a rich media technology provider for audio and video webcasting and rich media distribution channels where he was charged with building out partner ecosystems. Dobbrow also served as a Senior Consultant with the Larcen Consulting Group a leader in Organization Development playing a critical role in helping major corporations and start-ups with managing growth reorganization acquisition and more. He has over 20 years of management experience in technology media including 16 years at Ziff Davis.
During his most recent term at Ziff Davis Media he served as Senior VP of Corporate Sales and Integrated Media Solutions. Prior to that Mr. Dobbrow served as President and CEO of Red Herring Communications. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Global Platform Sales for RealNames Corporation a keyword infrastructure provider. Preceding that Mr. Dobbrow had a 14-year tenure at Ziff-Davis Inc. where he served as Executive Vice President overseeing some of the company's most successful magazines such as PCMagazine PCComputing and Family PC. He also founded eLearning startup SmartPlanet in 1999 and built the business to over 60 000 paying subscribers before merging it with ZDNet.
Mr. Dobbrow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
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