Steve Jillings brings a unique blend of vision and ability to execute to the companies he becomes involved with. He is now applying his skills at Vantage Media. Vantage Media is the Category Leader in Performance Based Search Marketing. Steve began his association with Vantage in September 2006 and was instrumental in raising $70MM of investment capital. He joined the company as CEO in February 2007, concurrent with the closing of the investment.
Prior to Vantage, Steve was President and CEO of FrontBridge Technologies, Inc. Steve joined FrontBridge in March 2002 and was responsible for taking the company from a startup to a global leader in managed messaging services. Tasked with driving the company’s strategic direction and growth, Steve built a management team focused on execution. Raising $27MM in three rounds of funding, the team proceeded to build a broad portfolio of managed services combined with the largest global distribution footprint in the managed messaging space. This led to the successful sale of the company to Microsoft in August 2005 for more than $200MM.
Steve has more than 25 years of business building experience, successfully creating seven companies from concept to commercialization and eventual liquidity.
