Kirsten Mangers - Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder of WebVisible

Kirsten Mangers is chief executive officer and co-founder of WebVisible.  A recognized small-business advocate, she has delivered on the promise of leveraging the Internet to drive local traffic to local businesses.

As the company’s “chief culture officer,” Kirsten Mangers is leading the way in a movement that is driving a global online business revolution that will be a $13 billion industry by 2010. She started WebVisible in 2001 with a $250,000 in seed capital and a passion for world-class results. In 2005, after four years of bootstrapping, Kirsten Mangers secured $5 million in Series A financing from Redpoint Ventures, putting the company on a path to achieve 200% revenue growth over 2004, generating more than $100 million for its resellers by early 2006. As of result of her leadership, WebVisible was named “Emerging Software Company of the Year” by the Technology Council of Southern California in 2007. That year she expanded through international partnerships across nine countries, serving local business advertisers in four languages.

In March 2008, Kirsten Mangers secured $12 million in Series B funding from Sutter Hill Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Today, WebVisible’s domestic and international reseller partnerships include AT&T, British Telecom, European Directories, EarthLink, Microsoft Office Live, Homestead, The New York Times Company, and more than 45 other major newspapers.

Kirsten champions the innovation economy by serving as a founding director of the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee (TLPAC), dedicated to fostering the economic public policy and workforce infrastructure issues that will sustain and grow technology companies and ensure U.S. competitiveness.

Kirsten Mangers is a sought-after speaker for local interactive media conferences and a volunteer for local and national causes. She is a board member of the Alzheimer’s Association, Chair of the Visionary Women Guild and is a participant in the Newport Harbor High School Mentor Program.

WebVisible, a global leader in local interactive advertising, blends art and science to ensure local merchants can be found online at anytime, on any device, in order to drive new opportunities through major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN; online display and video ad networks; and mobile/location-based advertising.