TravelCom 2010 Wisdom Tracker

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

"Clearly disruptive technologies will challenge many travel organizations. Relevancy is not enough."

Posted by Jon Cooper at 9:03 AM

Jon Cooper: Cooper is Chief Marketing Officer of PhindMe.net, LLC. The Philadelphia startup is in the process of re-tooling to launch an easy to use mobile marketing platform. More to come on that. Cooper was Vice President of Marketing Systems and Product Development at Unreal Marketing, a Full-Service Interactive Marketing Company. Prior to Unreal, Cooper was Director of Distribution Programs at HighBeam, Inc., publisher of HighBeam, eLibrary, and Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam highlights included regularly providing tens of millions of URLs directly into the major search indexes and dealing with information services like Forbes.com, NYTimes Digital, and more. At the venerable Internet institution, Tucows, Cooper ran the online music distribution initiative which was among the first to launch 99 cent pay-per-song downloads of established artists - well before you-know-who. Prior to that, Cooper directed sales operations for Disc Makers, the U.S's largest independent CD replicator. Cooper completed his B.B.A. at the University of Wisconsin School of Business and also has a degree in Music Composition from Boston's Berklee College of Music.