During business hours, Craig Sherman lives in gaiaonline.com, the leading teen hangout on the web. Craig leads the company’s strategic planning, management, and technology development. Prior to joining Gaia Online, Craig served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Craig was also COO of MyFamily.com (ancestry.com), where he helped grow the company from $23 million to $150 million in sales and transform it from an advertising-based site to a highly profitable consumer subscription business. Before this, Craig held senior positions at American International Group, where he ran all marketing and internet sites for AIG in Japan and Korea. Previous to AIG, Craig was CEO of Cendant Japan, a joint venture founded by Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation. Craig currently holds director or advisor positions on the boards of Doba, Homestead, Myheritage, Netquote and Singlefeed. Previously, Craig also held board positions with Photoworks, prior to its sale to the Fox network, and Logoworks, prior to its sale to Hewlett Packard. Craig has a BA from Princeton University.

Recent speaking experience:

• Virtual Worlds Fall 2007: “Virtual Goods: The Next Big Business Model”
• Austin Game Developers Conference 2007: “Designing to Inspire and Engage Your Community”
• AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2007: “How Real is the Virtual Web?” and “Introducing the New Captains of Innovation” (Reference: Tony Perkins, tp@alwayson-network.com)
• Digital Hollywood Spring 2007: “Micropayments & MicroEconomies – Establishing a New E-Commerce Gateway to the Future”
• Web 2.0 Summit 2007: “Reality Bites: The Future of Gaming + Virtual Worlds 2.0” (Reference: Susan Wu, Pricipal, Charles River Ventures, SWu@crv.com)