David Carlick

David Carlick is a digital media veteran and an Independent Director working with a variety of companies in the online media and marketing space. David is a venture partner at Rho Ventures where he focuses on early stage investments in digital media and marketing. Current boards include ReachLocal (NASDAQ, RLOC) a global leader in digital media services to SMB, where he is Chairman; Grocery Shopping Network (private,) providing online services to grocery chains and their shoppers; Effective Measure (private,) Australian based internet measurement company analyzing traffic of over 600mm users in Oceana, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Africa; Brandscreen, leading DSP in Southeast Asia; and Adventure Capital, an early stage Australian seed stage venture firm. Prior, David was a managing director and venture partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners, where he was involved in numerous investments, including Intermix Media (parent company of MySpace,) and ReachLocal. Past board positions include Founding Director at International Network Services (NASDAQ INSS,) sold to Lucent 1999; Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ ASKJ,) sold to IAC in 2005; Chairman Intermix Media (AMEX IMIX,) parent of MySpace, acquired by News Corp 2005; ReachLocal Australia, acquired by ReachLocal in 2009; and founding director at I/Pro, early internet measurement company (acquired by CMGI 2001.) His business experience also includes founding Carlick Advertising (acquired by Poppe Tyson in 1993) after nearly 15 years serving technology startups such as Cypress Semiconductor, Network Equipment Technologies, Network General and Silicon Graphics. He became Executive Vice President at Poppe Tyson, where he co-founded poppe.com, which spun out and merged with Modem Media (NASDAQ: MMPT,) and DoubleClick, which was spun out, went public and was subsequently sold to Google. He holds a B.S. in business accounting from San Jose State University.