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11 Proven Reasons Why WidgetBucks isn’t a Scam

After all the rumours and crap about Widget Bucks I wanted to throw in some reasons why we can trust them, here’s 11 of the best reasons why they’re not a scam, look at the people involved, now these are proven facts and not some BS made up or spread by people :

The People Behind Widget Bucks and Their Roles within.

Management Team

Matt Hulett, Chairman & CEO
Matt Hulett is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mpire. Before Mpire, Matt was President of the corporate travel division of Expedia, Inc., the world’s largest online travel company.

Greg Harrison, Co-Founder & CTO
Prior to Mpire Greg served as CTO and VP of Engineering of Vidiator, a Hutchison Whampoa Limited company responsible for deploying all of Hutchison’s 14 global third-generation wireless carrier infrastructure.

Sean Crotty, Vice President, Product Marketing
Sean Crotty is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Mpire. Prior to Mpire, Sean ran the affiliate programs for major internet retail sites Art.com and AllPosters.com. Before Art.com, Sean managed eBay’s Affiliate Platform, launching new web services for eBay’s API and leading the development of widgets.

Board of Directors/Investors

Richard Tong, Managing Partner, Ignition Partners
Rich Tong is a founding partner of Ignition Partners. He specializes in the telecommunications and wireless industries as well as end-user/consumer-facing companies. Prior to joining Ignition, Rich spent 12 years at Microsoft where he most recently served as Vice President of Marketing for MS Office and BackOffice.

Michelle Goldberg, Principal, Ignition Partners
Michelle Goldberg is a principal at Ignition Partners, investing in consumer facing companies. Michelle also represents Ignition as director on the boards of DocuSign and Entellium. Prior to joining Ignition, Michelle worked as an independent consultant at Microsoft where she developed the initial business plans for products in the enterprise server space.

J. Richard Rock, Investor
J. Richard Rock, founder of Caprock Group, Inc.
Rock previously served as the Senior Director of Business Development at eBay, where he was responsible for establishing hundreds of strategic business relationships that accelerated customer acquisition at a declining cost with companies such as AOL Time Warner, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company.

Company Advisors

Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO, Linden Labs
Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC’s, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks.

Sujal Patel, Founder and CTO, Isilon Systems
Sujal holds a number of patents and pending patents, including those for the Isilon OneFS distributed file system and for the RealNetworks network adaptive SureStream technology. Sujal holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Evan Kaplan, Founder, President & CEO, Aventail Corporation
Evan Kaplan is president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board for Aventail Corporation. He co-founded the company in 1996 and pioneered the first commercial implementation of SSL based Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) and the industry’s first Managed Extranet service. Today, Aventail is the market’s leading SSL VPN technology company, and Kaplan continues to focus the company on providing enterprise secure communications solutions.

Laurence Toney, VP of Marketplace Operations, Art.com
Laurence was the Director and General Manager of eBay’s Collectibles Business Unit (CBU) where he managed the P&L and team for $3 billion in annual transactions, which was more than 12% of the U.S. transaction volume of the eBay marketplace.

Jon Zimmerman, Ph.D candidate University of Washington.
Jon Zimmerman helps leading companies optimize price and revenue. For more than fourteen years, John has worked within a variety of industries including wireless communications, travel and leisure, and e-commerce. Most recently, John was the Director of Strategic Pricing for T-Mobile USA.

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