Rip Gerber has served in chief executive and line leadership roles throughout his twenty-year career in software and services. Most recently he was Chief Marketing Officer for Nokia/Intellisync (NASDAQ: SYNC), where he led marketing, business development and ecommerce. He has led global business units at Carlson Companies and Digitas (NASDAQ: DTAS) and served as Chief Strategy Officer and CMO of Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH), an enterprise infrastructure company he took public in 1999. He is the founder of @once Inc, an emarketing company (acquired by InfoUSA). Prior to that he held line positions at Deloitte Consulting, American Express and Firestone. Mr. Gerber has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.