| Stanford University, MBA | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Undergraduate | |
| Humanities |
“John McCrea is the vice president of marketing for Plaxo. His responsibilities include marketing, product design and management and public relations.
John is a seasoned marketing executive and a web pioneer, who has had a significant impact on the evolution of the web as a new medium and as a platform for communication. While at Silicon Graphics (SGI), he struck the very first website sponsorship deal, and coined the term “Powered by…” as the de facto standard for such promotions. He was the driving force behind SGI’s WebFORCE, the first turnkey web server, launched in January ’95, with the tagline “To Author and To Serve.” Immediately prior to joining Plaxo, John held the position of senior vice president of marketing at Radiance Technologies, developer of a breakthrough “digital FedEx” software solution. Before Radiance, John co-founded Affinia, a pioneer in contextual web advertising, which developed a predecessor to Google’s AdSense.
John earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an S.B. Humanities from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
(Source: Plaxo)
