Howard Yeh

Co-Founder, Chief Revenue Officer

Healthcarecom

Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)

Co-Founder and COO

Healthcarecom

Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Transitioned to COO in 2021 after hiring a new CEO to take HealthCare.com to a higher level of growth and scale.

Co-Founder, CEO & Board Director

Healthcarecom

Oct 2014 - Feb 2021 (6 years 5 months)

I lead a team of entrepreneurs, marketers, engineers, product developers, data scientists and tech-enabled sales fanatics who are building HealthCare.com into the leading online healthcare marketplace. We are applying proprietary product, data, technology and UX to deliver the most useful website for U.S. consumers to make healthcare-related purchase decisions. Our starting point is an online health plan search and comparison engine, allowing consumers to find plans, sort plans, select plans and to enroll with a growing network of partners. Our mission, "Help our users to become better healthcare decisions". President from 2014 through 2015. CEO from 2016 to 2021. COO from 2021 onward

Board Director

Yolacom

Nov 2013 - Jul 2018 (4 years 9 months)

Independent board member on the Yola, Inc. board of directors. Yola is a build-it-yourself website builder founded in 2007 by Vinny Lingham with the goal of being a launching pad for getting businesses online with a simple website. It now powers over 9 million websites worldwide through its its Sitebuilder at Yola.com, and through its white-label partners.

Co-Founder

ContactUscom Inc

Nov 2012 - Aug 2015 (2 years 10 months)

Founded and seed-funded ContactUs.com in 2012 along with Brad Seiler, and acquired by WorkWave in 2015. We're updating and re-imagining the basic "Contact Us" function found on virtually every live website, using the lens of online marketers focused on new customer acquisition. ContactUs.com provides better lead-capture, lead-management and lead-attribution for SMBs, online marketers and web agencies. The proprietary end-to-end toolset features: Simple form set-up, High-converting form designs, Customized auto-responder emails, customized pages, Instant and advanced lead notification, Live chat, Lead reporting, Status updates, Call tracking, 2-way email, Media sourcing and Marketing analytics.

Advisor

PeopleFund

Aug 2012 - Oct 2014 (2 years 3 months)

PeopleFund is a private investment company that building and investing online companies using proprietary capital. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. There are investments in over 20 companies representing approximately $20M, with a number of companies wherein PeopleFund is the majority shareholder. Companies include AutoWeb (backed by Autobytel), BlueKite (acquired by XOOM), HealthCare Inc., Kipo, PlaySpace and ContactUs.com.

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VP, Paid Media

Vantage Media

Sep 2011 - Jul 2012 (11 months)

Following the acquisition of BrokersWeb, my responsibility shifted to direct Vantage Media's online marketing with a paid media marketing budget of more then $5 million per month including SEM, display and email, across all core verticals: Insurance, EDU and the legacy agency business. In addition, led the launch of SchoolSelect, an EDU-focused pay-per-click platform created as an expansion of BrokersWeb.

COO & Co-Founder

BrokersWeb a Vantage Media Product

Oct 2007 - Jul 2012 (4 years 10 months)

BrokersWeb, Inc. is one of the leading pay-per-click advertising marketplaces targeting the insurance vertical. The company was honored as the #20 fastest-growing company in Inc Magazine's 2011 Inc. 500 list with $15.7M of revenue. This includes being recognized as the #1 fastest-growing company in the Insurance vertical. (UPDATE: subsequently named #46 overall and #1 in Insurance in 2012's Inc 500 with $54.5M in revenue). Acquired by Vantage Media in September 2011. Responsible for building profitable, performance-driven search marketing campaigns from close to zero to $2M per month, and starting the company's lead-gen (vs. our core click product) business.

VP, Corporate Development (Co-Founding Team)

BrokersWeb a Vantage Media Product

Oct 2007 - Sep 2009 (2 years)

Founding team member of HealthCare.com, Inc., which began as a product-driven online marketing company in online health. The business eventually acquired and became BrokersWeb, Inc. (see above), which became the leading health insurance pay-per-click marketplace. From an operating standpoint, I have overall responsibility over the BrokersWeb partner program, a PPC advertising program that works with third-party websites to strategically place premium listings from BrokersWeb advertisers.

Vice President

VantagePoint Venture Partners

Jun 2003 - Sep 2007 (4 years 4 months)

Provided for investment analysis, deal structuring and portfolio monitoring in support of VPVP’s sector-focused, stage-independent investment strategy. Promoted from Associate to Vice President in July 2006. Selected investments during my tenure included Pure Digital Technologies, Nexsan, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Grocery Shopping Network, and Finisar.

Investment Banking Analyst

Merrill Lynch

Jul 2000 - Jun 2003 (3 years)

Joined Merrill Lynch's Media investment group as part of the 2000 investment banking analyst class. Didn't know it at the time, but it was just as the Internet bubble was bursting. At the time, there was still a wide gulf between traditional media companies and new media companies. Cable companies were still levering up to install new cable plant that would usher in "new services" (high-speed Internet, video-on-demand, VOIP). I did typical investment banking analyst stuff: valuation, M&A and financing models, due-diligence, offering documents and lots of PowerPoint stuff. Clients included Charter Communications (cable), Fox Entertainment, Omnicom Group, Discovery Communications, Warburg Pincus (an information services portfolio co.), Loews

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