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Senior Vice President and General Manager, Omniture Business Unit: Adobe Systems Incorporated

As senior vice president and general manager of the Omniture business unit, Josh James oversees all aspects of the OmnitureÂ® Online Marketing Suite, the industry-leading solution enabling chief marketing officers to optimize advertising spending and conversion. The Suite includes a comprehensive portfolio of applications for visitor acquisition, conversion, online analytics and multi-channel analytics built on an open business analytics platform and sold as an online and on-premise solution.

James was previously the CEO and co-founder of Omniture, Inc., acquired by Adobe in October 2009. James co-founded Omniture in 1996 and successfully took the company public in 2006 as the youngest CEO for a NASDAQ-traded company. In 2007 and 2008, he spearheaded five successful acquisitions that helped propel Omniture's technology innovation, expand the company's footprint in key geographic areas and increase market share. As a result, Omniture was named to the 2008 Fast Company Fast 50 list of the world's most innovative companies, and was recognized on the Inc. 500 for four years in a row and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for seven years.

Prior to co-founding Omniture, James founded three successful, Internet-focused, high-technology companies. He was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade by Brigham Young University, and was recently recognized by Fortune Magazine in its 2009 feature 40 Under 40.

James is the founder of Silicon Slopes, a private-sector initiative whose mission is to promote the interests of high-tech in Utah, and he advises and participates in a number of other boards and committees including the BYU Kevin Rollins eBusiness Center, the Utah Symphony and the Utah Technology Council. James studied business management and entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University.

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8/6/10:

Demand Media Files For IPO

Platform for freelancers Demand Media just filed for an IPO. According to the filing, Demand revenues reached $114 million for the six months ending June 2010. That's an increase from $91.3 million over the same period a year ago. Loss from operations over the first half was $4.3 million. A year ago, ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: Goldman Sachs Google YouTube News Corp MySpace Omniture AOL Richard Rosenblatt Yahoo Demand Media Merrill Lynch capital Tim Armstrong

7/29/10:

Small Business Grabs Attention in D.C.

Democrats and Republicans battle for the small-biz vote. Speaking from a sandwich shop yesterday in Edison, New Jersey, President Obama declared that, "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. They are central to our identity as a nation. They are going to lead this recovery." Republicans, ... - read more at Inc. Magazine - News

tags: Omniture Washington Post Facebook Tumblr

7/28/10:

Adobe buys web software company for $240 million

With today's acquisition of Day Software, a Swiss web content management software company, Adobe continues to fill out its enterprise software line. The two companies reached an agreement for Adobe to acquire all of the publicly held shares of Day Software. Founded in 1993 in Base, Switzerland, Day ... - read more at VentureBeat

tags: Rob Tarkoff Omniture Open Text

7/28/10:

Adobe Acquires Web Software Maker for US$240 Million

Adobe Systems has agreed to buy Web software maker Day Software Holding in a deal worth US$240 million, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Adobe Systems - Day Software - Companies - Business - Josh James - read more at PC World

tags: Adobe

7/26/10:

Omniture CEO to leave Adobe

Adobe announced today that Josh James, chief executive of its acquisition Omniture, is leaving at the end of July. It's normal for CEOs to leave eventually when their companies are acquired, but the speed of the departure is a bit unusual — usually those CEOs are contracted to stay with the acquirer ... - read more at VentureBeat

tags: Omniture CEO Shantanu Narayen

7/26/10:

CEO James Departs Omniture Less than a Year After Adobe Deal

Josh James, founder and former CEO of Omniture, is replaced by Brad Rencher. - read more at ClickZ

tags: Omniture

7/26/10:

Adobe: Omniture founder and ex-CEO Josh James to step down

Adobe Systems said Josh James, founder and former CEO of Omniture, will step down at the end of this month as senior vice president in charge of the business that Adobe bought last year. - read more at San Jose Mercury News

tags: Adobe Omniture

7/26/10:

Omniture Founder James Leaves Adobe

Josh James, the founder and former CEO of Omniture, is leaving Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) 11 months after Adobe purchased his company for $1.8 billion. James had joined Adobe as SVP of its Omniture business unit post-acquisition. He's being succeeded in that post by Brad Rencher, a VP of business operations ... - read more at Paidcontent.org

tags: Adobe Omniture Demand Media

7/26/10:

Omniture Founder/CEO Josh James Leaving Adobe At The End Of ...

Omniture founder and CEO Josh James, who sold his web analytics company to Adobe last September for $1.8 billion, is leaving the company at the end of the month. Adobe included James' move in a press release detailing a couple other executive moves: "David Wadhwani, who has served as vice president ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: ADBE Omniture Shantanu Narayen President John Loiacono

5/25/10:

"10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product Design" unveiled ...

For the third year in a row, Bessemer hosted its Cloud CEO Conference, assembling roughly 100 CEOs/CxOs of our cloud and rich internet applications portfolio companies (Yelp, LinkedIn, Playdom, Zoosk, Smule, Wix, Eloqua, Teamviewer, Cornerstone OnDemand, Intacct, Criteo, Bizo and many others) as well ... - read more at Cracking the Code

tags: Apple Goldman Sachs Bob Goodman Microsoft Morgan Stanley Omniture Symantec LinkedIn LogMeIn Michael Simon OpenTable Twitter Smule Eloqua Joe Payne Jeff Jordan

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