Richard Rosenblatt

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Mr. Richard Rosenblatt is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Whip Media. He serves as Board Member at FRS Healthy Energy. He is a Senior Advisor at Raine Group. As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Rosenblatt's latest venture is Demand Media, a company he co-founded in May 2006 and where he serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He has built, operated and sold over $1.3 billion of internet media companies. Most recently, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Intermix Media and Chairman of Myspace.com. Joining Intermix in March 2004, Mr. Rosenblatt led a successful turn-around of its existing business, helped the management team grow Myspace.com from an unknown web site to one of the most popular properties on the internet, developed a number of new internet media properties, and significantly increased shareholder value. During his eighteen months as CEO of Intermix, its public market capitalization grew from seventy million dollars to over $650 million, when it was acquired by News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) in October 2005. In 1999, Mr. Rosenblatt sold iMALL (NASDAQ: iMAL), a company he founded in 1994 and served as Chairman and CEO, to Excite@Home (NASDAQ: ATHM) for $565 million. In addition to these two public internet companies, Mr. Rosenblatt has been actively involved in a number of private internet companies. He also serves as non-executive chairman of iCrossing, a leading digital and natural search firm. He is a Southern California native, with a B.s. from UCLA and J.D. from USC Law school in the year 1994. He served as Strategic Advisory Board Member at Disruptive.