Christopher Lien Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Marin Software Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform for advertisers and agencies to measure, manage and optimize billions in annualized online ad investments..
• Led two acquisitions to expand platform offering – Perfect Audience (biddable display and retargeting platform) $25.5 million and SocialMoov (leading European social advertising platform) $20.8 million.
• Created business development partnerships with Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Hubspot.Founder and CEO March 2006 – May 2014
• Led business from concept to over $100 million of recurring SaaS revenue.
• Grew team to over 500 members in 13 worldwide offices.
• Played leading role in strategic account selling and customer success, winning, renewing, and expanding customers such as Apple, Hotels.com, Macy’s, Microsoft, and Salesforce as well as six of the six leading.

• Direct the activities of my personal consulting and investment firm. Provide coaching and mentoring to founders and first-time CEOs.
• Board member Conductor and SocialChorus.
• Serve as advisor to founders of Cartelligent, MV Code Club, and InteriorCrowd.
• Completed various early-stage technology investments; current investments include DealVector, MyVR, Powhow, and tickr; prior investments include Pure Digital Technologies (sold to Cisco for $590 million in March 2009).
• During 2004, served as a corporate development consultant to COO of Dow Jones, leading to acquisition of Marketwatch for $520 million in November 2004.

US

• Recruited to lead day-to-day operations at leading on-line performance-based marketing firm with over $100 million of annual gross revenues.
• Established $20 million senior credit facility after review of financing options.

US

• Developed a software platform to enable high-speed Internet providers to offer vertical services to the home to increase subscriber lifetime value with initial applications for home networking and digital media.
• With co-founder, developed product idea, hired core team, and raised $1.3 million in seed financing.
• Directed the business development and financial activities and shared day-to-day responsibility for a 14-person software and web services company.
• Successfully sold venture in October 2003 to 2Wire, Inc., a provider of broadband platforms for the DSL market (2wire later was acquired by Pace plc for $475 million in 2010).

• Directed the strategic, operational, and financial development of Kmart’s 60%-owned e-commerce and Internet service provider (“ISP”) subsidiary.
• As part of the senior leadership team, played a key role in growing the company from less than 50 employees and $1 million in annual revenue to over 200 employees and 2001 revenue of approximately $20 million while.
• As CFO, responsible for overall management of the accounting, finance, operations, human resources, legal, and administrative functions; Board of Directors meetings; liaison with senior Kmart executives; and major.
• Raised $142.5 million in two rounds of funding from Kmart, SOFTBANK Venture Capital, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, and Yahoo.

New York, NY, US

10 years of merger and corporate finance work at Morgan Stanley, Wolfensohn, Smith Barney, and Evercore Partners; executed over 30 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $30 billion across a range of industries; experience includes public and private situations, buy-sides, sell-sides, joint ventures, restructurings, spin-offs, carve-outs, and.

Mba

Ba, Double Major In Government And Spanish