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Matt Wisk directs the marketing efforts for all of United Online's brands, including the company's leading value-priced Internet services NetZero and Juno Online, and Classmates.com, a leader in online social networking, as corporate Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. He brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to United Online. Mr. Wisk was named one of the "Top 100 Marketers of 1999" by Advertising Age and "Grand Marketer of the Year, 2000" by Brandweek; was awarded the Gold Effie Award for Advertising Effectiveness in 2001; and was named a Henry Crown Fellow, Class of 2002, from the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. Mr. Wisk joined United Online after serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer at TiVo where he directed TiVo's global marketing efforts. Before joining TiVo, Mr. Wisk was Chief Marketing Officer at Herbalife International, a $1 billion revenue nutrition products company. Prior to joining Herbalife, Mr. Wisk worked at Nokia for nine years, where he moved up through the marketing organization to become Vice President, Marketing, North and South America, providing leadership, strategic marketing vision, and broad executive management for the international marketing of its mobile phone division. At Nokia, Mr. Wisk was a key executive in the marketing team that helped establish Nokia as a global leader in wireless communications equipment. Under his leadership in both North America and Europe, Nokia grew from having single-digit brand awareness to being the most considered and preferred brand in the category. Prior to Nokia, Mr. Wisk held marketing positions for telecommunications companies, Metrocel Cellular Telephone (now part of Cingular), NEC, and GTE. He received both his M.B.A. and B.A. from Michigan State University. | 