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Matt Hulett is both a serial entrepreneur and seasoned public company executive who has successfully built profitable (and re-built) companies from scratch.

Hulett is currently an Executive-In-Residence at Voyager Capital and the Chief Product Officer at TINYpulse. Hulett was most recently the CEO of the top 100 Internet Retailer, ClickBank. Previously, Hulett ran the games division (GameHouse) at RealNetworks. Led the right-sizing effort of the traditional gaming business to its first run-rate profitability in several years as well as leading the turnaround and strategy pivot of the business into social and mobile gaming.

Previously, he was the Executive Chairman and CEO of AdXpose Corporation. Led the turnaround of the business which resulted in AdXpose becoming the leader in online advertising optimization and to its acquisition by comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR)

Prior to AdXpose, Hulett was President of the corporate travel division of Expedia, Inc., the world's largest online travel company, where he launched the corporate travel business from an idea to a billion dollar worldwide leader in just a couple of years. Prior to Expedia, Matt was a founding partner of the next generation entertainment company, AtomFilms. He served as President of Atom Entertainment, a firm backed by both Sequoia Capital and Macromedia and was purchased by Viacom (NYSE: VIA).

Early in his career Hulett was the founding consumer products leader at RealNetworks launching many of the companies most successful products including the RealPlayer and its premium subscription software businesses. He started out his career learning to love UNIX running the market-leading Reflection X product line at AttachmateWRQ, a privately held provider of enterprise software.

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flashinfremonton Clickbank order details in plain view

Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank.

ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsibility for maintaining the security of personal information that is posted online. At no time is customer payment information disclosed.

flashinfremonton Poll: Are Slide and RockYou overvalued?

Yes. $4 per unique without a real business model. Smart folks and they each have their own version of how they are going to be big, branded ad networks but the fundamental issue is that brands need to control where their ads are placed. This is polar opposite to how RY and Slide distribute their content.