The Reply.com marketplace is the premier platform to buy and sell online clicks and leads. Exchange clicks and leads in the following categories: automotive, real estate home buyers and real estate home sellers. The alternative to search marketing and ad networks – eliminate advertising waste.
After graduating from the University of California at Davis I co-founded Autoweb.com in 1994, the first online car buying service.
Over 4 years we raised $12M from VC’s and grew the company from concept to over $20M in annual revenues. We took the company public on March 23, 1999. The stock was priced at $14, opened at $28 and closed the first day at $40. The company raised over 80M and the stock was the most active on NASDAQ for that day. Ultimately the company’s market cap reached $1.2B.
In late 1999 I started PurpleTie. My goal was to create a national brand for dry cleaning by connecting an online store front to thousands of neighborhoods in the country through a spoke & hub delivery system. We needed $400M to take the company national. The brand represented quality and we focused heavily on environmentally friendly practices. The service launched in the San Francisco Bay Area during the summer of 2000 however in 2001 as the financing for internet based start ups dried up we ended up shutting down the business.
A few months later I learned that CarClub.com and iMotors.com had gone out of business. These businesses combined had raised about $.5B in capital and I saw significant value in their brands. I purchased their remaining assets for about $100K and formed Reply! Inc. Since inception we have raised over $20M in funding.
Reply.com represents the natural evolution of online marketing from display and CPC media to performance based marketing priced on a per lead basis.
We see a multi-billion dollar opportunity in providing efficient marketing solutions to businesses that need to speak with online consumers to deliver their products or services. In 2008 we launched a patent pending platform that is the equivalent of Google Adwords for the CPL (cost per lead) market. We anticipate significant growth in the coming years.
Sean Fox leads Reply!’s sales, service, and business development activities across all vertical markets, including automotive, real estate, financial services, and insurance.
For the past ten years, Fox has held key executive management positions with a number of leading online marketing companies, including Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Internet Pictures Corporation (iPIX), Vice President of Sales for Homestore (now Move.com), and President of Connecting Neighbors. After Reply! acquired Connecting Neighbors in 2005, Fox served as the General Manager of Reply!’s largest business unit and then as its EVP of Business Development.
Prior to entering the business world, Fox was a trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice and played a key role in filing a major lawsuit against Visa and Mastercard that ultimately forced those associations to change their business practices.
Fox holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Masters in Economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University.
Brian Bowman is the chief architect of marketing, traffic acquisition, and product development. He is responsible for strategic planning, positioning, and P&L management of all online marketing initiatives. He helms the growth of Reply!’s network of websites, customer acquisition and lead generation.
A skilled general manager with more than 17 years of experience in online marketing, product strategy, and product management, Bowman has held executive-level positions at several leading online consumer companies, including Yahoo, The Walt Disney Company, and Match.com.
Before joining Reply!, Bowman was VP Community for Yahoo.com, where he led global planning, positioning, and product development for community products. He was VP of Marketing & Product Management for InfoSpace.com and led the development of local, web search, and mobile search products. He oversaw Match.com’s product strategy and led the company to significant revenue and registration increases. Prior to joining Match.com, Bowman was VP and General Manager for The Walt Disney Company’s ABC Television Network online division.
Bowman graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Purdue University, and sits on the advisory boards for AffinityCircles.com and CircleBuilder.com. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bowman is an expert at unburdening himself of sizeable sums of money at the poker table, and is available when your next poker night requires an infusion of cash.
As Chief Financial Officer, Sam Veazey holds executive management responsibilities for the company's finance, accounting, financial planning, and analysis functions. Veazey has over 20 years of experience directing financial strategy for rapidly-growing companies.
Before joining Reply! in 2005, Veazey was the Vice President of Finance and Controller for CenterBeam, Inc., an I.T. outsourcing services company. Prior to CenterBeam, Veazey was the Corporate Controller at Neoforma, where he built the finance and accounting department and oversaw completion of a private round of financing, as well as navigating the company through a $180 million IPO in January, 2000.
Previously, Veazey held Chief Financial Officer/Corporate Controller positions at Cambio, Inc. and Sparta Surgical Corporation, where he managed the finance, accounting, and securities reporting functions, and completed various public offerings and acquisitions. Veazey was also the Vice President of Corporate Finance at Interco Funding Group, Inc., an investment banking firm, where he directed the underwriting of public offerings and structured acquisitions.
Veazey graduated from the University of Miami, where he received his M.B.A. in Management and Finance, Masters of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. in Biology and Mathematics.
Bill Perrault is responsible for managing Reply!’s core information technology software group and ensuring that the company’s internal and external software programs work optimally.
A strategic technology expert with more than ten years of experience in project management and technology implementation for e-commerce environments, Perrault spent most of his 15-year career at Charles Schwab and Co., one of the nation's largest financial services providers. During his 12-year tenure with the company, Perrault held a variety of increasingly important roles, including Senior Project Manager—Brokerage Operations Technology Services, Senior Project Manager—Public and Client Web Sites, and Senior Project Coordinator/Senior Project Manager—Wireless Trading.
John Truchard brings more than ten years' experience in building online marketplaces. A veteran of three automotive services, Truchard was the first sales executive at Autoweb.com in 1996. Working with the founders, Truchard helped build the dealer network to more than 3,500 automobile dealers. He was also instrumental in building monthly Autoweb revenues to more than $1 million.
In 1998, Truchard was co-founder and president of OpenAuto, a software company focused on vehicle configuration and inventory management. During his tenure, OpenAuto raised $7 million in capital and launched its software product prior to selling the technology to Modulant Solutions. Immediately prior to joining Reply!, Truchard served as Vice President of Automotive at Modulant Solutions. There he was responsible for the successful licensing of the OpenAuto technology to several partners in the online automotive space.
Truchard, also one of the co-founders of Reply!, studied Economics at the University of California at Davis.
