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Advisory Board
Christopher J. Daly
Founder
Tether Corporation
Mr. Daly is a technology visionary leader behind some of the most sophisticated and advanced Internet-enabled customer services platforms in the industry. His career encompasses more than 30 years as a senior executive with hardware, software, systems development, sales, and integration companies, and as a highly successful independent entrepreneur. He is comfortable and understands the challenges of building young, technology-based companies. Mr. Daly brings passion, leadership and creativity to the conception, development, application and support of advanced, consumer-service technologies.
Mr. Daly began his career with Tandy Corporation before founding Software Distribution Services (now Ingram Micro). From there, he moved to Software Plus as Vice President of Marketing, to Packard Bell as Senior Vice President. While at Packard Bell he was responsible for advertising, marketing, product development and sales. Sales went from $10 million to $1.8 billion during his 3 years of service.
After leaving Packard Bell, he joined Emerson Electronics as its President. He has also served as in a consulting capacity with Goldstar Electronics, Compuadd, NEC, Wang Labs, Digital Equipment, and many other high-tech firms.
In 1998, Mr. Daly assumed the presidency of Matchmaker.com, where he immediately obtained a much-needed infusion of $12 million in venture funding. Within 12 months, he transformed the under-performing Internet dating service into the top performer in its category, leading to its successful sale to Terra-Lycos for $48 million. Mr. Daly then founded Comstock Data Mining, where he initiated the development some of the most sophisticated and advanced Internet-enabled customer service platforms in the industry, serving clients such as Universal Studios, Sony, Columbia-Tristar, and Liquid Generation.
After leaving Comstock Data Mining, Mr. Daly raised private financing in excess of $18 million and founded MetroSplash Systems Group. Metrosplash is the developer of FuelLinks a unique, cross-merchandising system that enables retail outlets to create powerful customer loyalty programs and incentives by allowing them to offer consumers dynamically discounted gasoline prices based on in-store purchases. Mr. Daly partnered with CITGO, Safeway, Super Valu, Foodland, Conoco Phillips, British Petroleum, Valero to introduce new loyalty payments vehicle to the Grocery and Oil and gas market.
Today, Mr. Daly serves as the CEO of Tether Corp. whose mission is to do what Google, Yahoo, iTunes, Ebay, Travelocity, Quicken, Magellan, Paypal and Checkfree did. Take a process that’s existed and been needed by people for hundreds of years in the real world, automate the process, deploy it to the Web and make it accessible to millions of people. Tether is one of the few applications that truly captures and engages the full promise and potential of the Internet.
Mr. Daly advises Thinkubator in areas of due diligence for various technologies.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Metrosplash Systems Group, Inc.
President
(raised private financing in excess of $18 million)
Matchmaker.com
President
(raised $12 million in venture financing and sold Matchmaker to Terra-Lycos for $48 million)
Packard Bell
Senior Vice President
(sales from $10 million to $1.8 billion in 3 years)
BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
Research | Development | Management | Oversight