Lisa Sharples Joins the Board of Livemocha
December 3, 2009
Dynamo Recruiting is pleased to announce the successful recruitment of Lisa Sharples as a new board member of Livemocha. With over 4 million members, Livemocha is the world’s largest language learning community.
Lisa also serves as President of Allrecipes.com, the leading online food community with more than 10 million unique visitors per month. She has been in this position for over 2 years.
“We are delighted to have Lisa Sharples join the board of Livemocha,” said Shirish Nadkarni, CEO of Livemocha. “Lisa brings a tremendous track record in building large communities and developing successful monetization models at a range of leading internet companies. Lisa’s experience will be invaluable to helping Livemocha cement its leadership position as the world’s largest language learning community and building a strong business model while making language learning affordable and accessible to language learners all over the world”.
Prior to joining Allrecipes.com, Lisa held the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing at Classmates.com, a division of United Online (UNTD). In this capacity, she helped define Classmate.com’s business strategy for all product development, marketing, creative design, customer retention, and customer service while leading a sizeable team. Lisa spearheaded the design and launch of many new features on the website which fueled the growth of the business.
Prior to Classmates.com, Lisa co-founded Garden.com (GDEN) in 1995, where she served as Chief Marketing & Merchandising Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for six years. As a leader of the online business from concept to project execution, Lisa is credited with creating the Garden.com business model and plan that encompassed content, community, merchandising and online retail.
Her other business experience includes overseeing ArtCarved, the flagship retail jewelry brand at American Achievement Corporation, from 2003 to 2005, and, earlier, working for Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and Standish Mellon Asset Management.
Lisa holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College in Biochemistry and Photography and MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
When not at work, Lisa enjoys spending time with her family, photography and gardening.
Livemocha is an e-learning Web 2.0 startup founded by a group of experienced and successful entrepreneurs based in the Seattle area. Livemocha addresses a $20 billion worldwide language learning market fueled by rapid globalization, immigration and travel. Livemocha is the first-of-its-kind, web-based language learning solution integrating online instructional content with a global community of language learners. Livemocha is a backed by Maveron, a leading Seattle-based venture firm with tremendous consumer and e-learning expertise.
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