Management Team

Jeffrey Tinsley
Chief Executive Officer

As a serial Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey founded MyLife™ and is the company's CEO and Chairman. He is responsible for the company's overall direction and strategies toward building the Internet's single source for finding people and staying connected on the Web.

Jeffrey founded the company in 2002, originally under the name Reunion.com, after meeting his wife at his 10-year high school reunion. Through his direction, the company has consistently grown since inception to become one of the most visited properties on the Internet, with a membership of more than 50 million members. The company has received many accolades, and Jeffrey himself was recognized as an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Semi-Finalist in 2008.

Previously, Jeffrey was a founder and CEO of GreatDomains.com, the world's leading secondary domain name marketplace. He was instrumental in helping turn an unproven business concept into a profitable company. As the market leader, GreatDomains.com was responsible for facilitating some of the largest domain-name sales in the industry through its service and platform, including Loans.com for $3 million. At the end of the year 2000, the company was acquired by publicly-traded VeriSign, the Internet's leading domain name registry, for a reported $100 million.

Jeffrey is also involved in a number of private Internet companies as an investor and advisor.

Rachel Glaser
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer

Rachel Glaser joined MyLife in a dual role as Chief Operating and Financial Officer in April 2008. She oversees all aspects of the company's financial and accounting functions and additionally is responsible for business operations, customer care, corporate development, investor relations and strategic planning.

Rachel most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Finance at Yahoo! Inc., where she led a global team of over 200 finance professionals responsible for worldwide forecasting, planning, and analysis. While in this role, Rachel's charter was to grow and transform the finance organization through acquisition of talent and integration of Yahoo's business operations with the broader finance team.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Rachel spent nearly 20 years at The Walt Disney Company, where she held a wide variety of leadership positions. Most recently, Glaser served as Vice President of Operations and Business Planning for the company's Consumer Product group, a $14 billion division that extends the Disney brand to merchandise across seven lines of business in 50 markets around the world.

Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Behavior and Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Paul Onnen
Chief Technology Officer

Paul Onnen joined MyLife in May 2009 as Chief Technology Officer, bringing with him vast experience in developing strategic technology solutions for numerous high-level companies. He is responsible for leading MyLife’s technology operations as the company enters a period of rapid growth, helping the product team serve the company’s many business partners, existing members, and millions of new customers who join each month.

Paul is an acknowledged expert in emerging internet technologies. He has led all technology efforts as Chief Technology Officer at well-known Internet companies including Expedia Inc., WebMD Health, and Nordstrom.com, as well as taking on senior leadership roles at Google, Cisco, and Intel.

Noted as one of the Top 25 Most Influential CTOs in the country by CTO Magazine, Paul was named CTO of the Year in the Retail Sector by InfoWorld. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Michael Tanne
Executive Vice President, Business Development and Partner Products

Michael Tanne joined MyLife in September 2008 as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Partner Products. In this role, Michael is responsible for advancing MyLife's people search services and helping partners deliver value through people search. Michael has been building search engines and Internet services for years, beginning at Verity, where he directed product management. In 2004, Michael founded Wink, which developed the leading people search solution. Wink merged with Reunion.com in September 2008 to form what is now MyLife.com, the most comprehensive online platform for people to find each other on the Web. Prior to Wink, Michael was a founder of AdForce, the leading ad serving solution which went public in 1999 and was acquired by CMGI in 2000.

Michael serves on the Board of Cloudmark, a leading provider of anti-spam solutions. He is a Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non-profit that engages emerging business leaders in philanthropy through grants and hands-on assistance to promising organizations.

Michael holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from Stanford University.

Dipik Rai
Senior Vice President, Marketing

Dipik, an Internet industry veteran, brings 15 years of B2C and B2B Internet background with him. MyLife is the sixth Internet startup he has been part of.

Prior to joining MyLife, Dipik served as Vice President of Business Development and Product for Engage.com, where he helped raise a $5 million Series A financing round and grew the customer database to its first 200,000 members. Before Engage.com, Dipik was Sr. Director of Marketing for Knight Ridder Digital, where he was responsible for all online marketing and product functions for 31 local newspaper Web sites.

Prior to his role at Knight Ridder Digital, Dipik led Direct Marketing at Yahoo! where he was tasked with building a team to work across all properties selling directly to consumers. His team of 30 focused on Y! Personals, Y! Small Business, Y!/SBC Access, Y! Games, and more. In addition, Dipik was responsible for developing Yahoo!'s database marketing (email) strategy to optimally leverage its 100 million user database to drive premium subscriptions.

Before Yahoo!, Dipik had strong success running the membership business for Classmates.com. Under his leadership, the business became profitable and grew from a $35 million to a $100 million revenue run rate in just over one year. At the time, it was the largest online subscription business in the world, with over 2 million paying members. Previously, Dipik was an early employee with lead generation company Aptimus (formerly Freeshop.com) and download software company atOnce Software, where he took on a variety of marketing, product, and general management roles.

Dipik holds a joint honors degree in business administration and economics from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.

Larry Baird
Senior Vice President, Product & Brand

Larry leads Product Development, Brand Marketing and Public Relations at MyLife. Larry is responsible for a staff of Product Management, User Experience, and Product Marketing professionals who work cross-functionally with technology and key business stakeholders to drive effective portfolio management that balances strategic, continuous improvement, and new product opportunities to meet customer needs and maximize enterprise value.

Larry brings over 15 years of technology industry experience in product management, product marketing, and brand development to MyLife. Prior to joining MyLife, Larry spent seven years at United Online, where he served as Vice President of Marketing Operations and oversaw product development, membership marketing, and brand positioning for the NetZero and Juno brands.

At United Online, Larry created membership marketing teams that contributed more than $50 million in annual revenues and led the launch of a first-to-market product that grew to over 1.5 million subscribers and generated revenues in excess of $200 million. Prior to United Online, Larry was a cofounder and Product Director at Epidemic.com and served as Product Manager for a $3.5 billion business unit at Compaq Computer Corporation.

Larry graduated with honors from the University of Texas in Austin with a BBA in Marketing.

Thomas Judd
Senior Vice President, Sales

Thomas Judd joined MyLife as Senior Vice President of Sales in April 2008. He oversees all online advertising and site monetization on MyLife.com. Thomas most recently served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at eForce Media, managing client development and customer acquisition for the leading customer identification and sales lead generation company. Prior to eForce Media, Thomas held the role of Vice President of Sales and Operations for Intermix Media with the primary responsibilities of launching, managing and growing its lead generation division.

Prior to Intermix Media, Thomas led business development for Prospectiv, a premier customer acquisition company. While at Prospectiv he successfully built out the Pharmaceutical, Education and Finance verticals for the company. Previously, he served as Director of Direct Marketing for Lycos Inc. where he launched and oversaw its new direct marketing unit Lycos Direct, turning it into a multi-million dollar division.

Thomas began his online career as General Manager at Sybervision, Inc., where he developed and managed SyberVision.com and was responsible for all online sales and marketing for the direct response marketer. Thomas then relocated to New York City to launch the East coast office for Deja.com, where he was responsible for business development, strategic alliances and building out vertical channels for the comparison shopping Web site. After his tenure at Deja.com, Thomas joined Gartner Group as Vice President of Sales and Business Development to manage its sales efforts for its online customer satisfaction division.

Thomas holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology for the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Master's degree in Integrated Marketing from New York University.

Sharyn Eles
Vice President, Marketing and Business Operations

Sharyn has been with MyLife from day one and is the Vice President of Marketing Operations while also overseeing general business operations including Human Resources. Sharyn came to MyLife from Cantor Fitzgerald, where she was the Director of Advertising Operations for their Internet division, the Hollywood Stock Exchange. While at Cantor Fitzgerald, Sharyn established policies and procedures for the advertising department and managed the ad-serving technology. Prior to Cantor Fitzgerald, she worked at FOX Sports Television where she was the Director of Advertising Operations and was in charge of overseeing the integration and analysis of all broadcast media buys. Sharyn has also worked in Human Resources at Katkin Corporation, public relations at MTV Networks and advertising sales at E! Entertainment Television.

Sharyn holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She received her M.A. in Media Ecology from New York University, along with a certificate in Marketing from the University of California at Berkeley.

W. Dwight Gorall
Vice President, Emerging Business

W. Dwight Gorall joined MyLife in March 2009 as Vice President of Emerging Business, bringing with him a 20-year track record in business development and sales management. He is responsible for leveraging MyLife’s vast dataset to create strategic B2B and B2C partnerships across multiple platforms.

Dwight most recently served as Vice President of Business Development/Client Solutions for LexisNexis Risk & Information Products, where he oversaw custom sales and product development for all commercial markets. Prior to that, as the Vice President of Channel Development for LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group, he was responsible for a $60M revenue stream. Dwight came to LexisNexis after a stint as Vice President of Business Development for Seisint, Inc., a leading information products and database technology company, which was acquired in 2004 for $775M by LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier.

Before LexisNexis, Dwight successfully developed and implemented a sales coverage strategy for Daleen Technologies that resulted in the company’s revenues exceeding 200% per year and helped take the company public in 1999 on the NASDAQ Exchange (DALN). At Motorola - Wireless Infrastructure Group he directed a sales team that drove annual product revenue in excess of $50M and was primarily responsible for a first-of-its-kind contract for Motorola that resulted in excess of $40M in revenue. He likewise achieved above-plan sales levels while at AT&T Corporation – Global Business Communications Systems, and Siemens/Tel Plus Communications Company.

Dwight holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida and Graduate studies in Finance and Accounting from Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.