Rick Marini
Founder & CEO of BranchOut.com Founder & CEO, SuperFan.com
Rick Marini has been a pioneer in online social media for the past 10 years. Rick is the Founder & CEO of both BranchOut and SuperFan.
BranchOut is a career networking platform which leverages the Facebook social graph. Users can search by company name to quickly find all of their contacts who work(ed) at the target company plus see friends-of-friends who work(ed) there too for the ultimate inside connections. BranchOut has a Job Board which allows users to search, post and share jobs with their friend network on Facebook.
SuperFan is a social entertainment site that allows users to become a Fan of ALL the things they love in life including music, celebs, tv/movies, sports, games, brands, books, places, schools, etc. SuperFan is also a social game where fans use a virtual currency to compete to become the “SuperFan” of their top Faves.
Prior to founding BranchOut and SuperFan, Rick was the Co-Founder, CFO & Chief Strategist for Tickle.com. Tickle was one of the largest social media sites on the Internet and the first site to successfully leverage viral marketing through personality tests, photo-sharing and matchmaking products. Under his leadership, Tickle operated as a profitable company with close to $40 million of annual revenue. In 2002, Tickle won the “Rising Star” Webby Award as the fastest growing site on the Web and became a top 20 global Internet site with 200 million registered users. Rick served on the Board of Directors of Tickle until 2004 when Tickle was successfully acquired by Monster Worldwide for over $100 million.
Rick currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Fwix, Friendster, Lumos Labs, Stipple, and FIGHTER.
Rick received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Founder & CEO of BranchOut.com Founder & CEO, SuperFan.com
Rick Marini has been a pioneer in online social media for the past 10 years. Rick is the Founder & CEO of both BranchOut and SuperFan.
BranchOut is a career networking platform which leverages the Facebook social graph. Users can search by company name to quickly find all of their contacts who work(ed) at the target company plus see friends-of-friends who work(ed) there too for the ultimate inside connections. BranchOut has a Job Board which allows users to search, post and share jobs with their friend network on Facebook.
SuperFan is a social entertainment site that allows users to become a Fan of ALL the things they love in life including music, celebs, tv/movies, sports, games, brands, books, places, schools, etc. SuperFan is also a social game where fans use a virtual currency to compete to become the “SuperFan” of their top Faves.
Prior to founding BranchOut and SuperFan, Rick was the Co-Founder, CFO & Chief Strategist for Tickle.com. Tickle was one of the largest social media sites on the Internet and the first site to successfully leverage viral marketing through personality tests, photo-sharing and matchmaking products. Under his leadership, Tickle operated as a profitable company with close to $40 million of annual revenue. In 2002, Tickle won the “Rising Star” Webby Award as the fastest growing site on the Web and became a top 20 global Internet site with 200 million registered users. Rick served on the Board of Directors of Tickle until 2004 when Tickle was successfully acquired by Monster Worldwide for over $100 million.
Rick currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Fwix, Friendster, Lumos Labs, Stipple, and FIGHTER.
Rick received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.