| Website | mindflash.com |
| Birthplace | Pittsburgh, PA |
Dan Silmore was named VP, Marketing at Mindflash in January 2011. He is leading demand generation, acquisition and branding for this cloud-based training tool targeted to small and mid-sized businesses.
Prior to Mindflash, he served as SVP, Product & Marketing at GigaOM managing all strategic marketing, product development and product management activities. Prior to that, he served as VP Marketing at AllBusiness.com where he was a key part of the executive team that grew the business from start-up through its $55M exit to Dun & Bradstreet. He stayed on to help create D&B Digital, the integration of AllBusiness with Hoover’s Online. Prior to that, he was General Manager of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch Network of consumer Web sites – MarketWatch.com, BigCharts.com and VirtualStockExchange.com. He had been MarketWatch’s VP Marketing prior to its $519M exit to Dow Jones. Other previous roles include Director of Consumer Marketing for the CBS HealthWatch Web site of Medscape, Inc., and VP of E-commerce Marketing for Wells Fargo’s business Internet services division.
