Brett Brewer, President, AdKnowledge & Co-Founder, MySpace
Brett Brewer is a leading Internet pioneer and executive who has built, operated and sold Internet media companies. Mr. Brewer co-founded his first Internet company, Intermix Media, just a year out of UCLA. From 1998 through its successful $673 million sale to NewsCorp in October of 2005, Intermix Media launched several different businesses including Skilljam.com, ecommerce site Alena, and the wildly popular Myspace.com. Mr. Brewer was the only senior executive and board member to remain and lead the company from inception through sale to Newscorp.
In his current position as President and Director of Adknowledge.com, Mr. Brewer is well on his well to building another successful Internet company. The behavioral-based advertising company has had strong growth in both revenues and profits and attracted a $48 million minority stake investment from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). The company was a Red Herring top 200 company for 2006 and a Red Herring top 100 company for 2007.
Mr. Brewer has been an angel investor in several technology start ups, including video search site, Dabble.com, mobile texting company Frengo.com, mobile social networking site Treemo.com, and RealtyTracker.com. He is either on the board of, or a strategic advisor for, all of these companies.
He is an in-demand speaker who has been a keynote speaker or presenter at numerous industry events, including Bear Stearns Internet Roundtable, Goldman Sachs Internet Conference, Gridley Conference, JMP Research Conference, Montgomery Technology Conference, ThinkEquity Growth Conference, Software Information Industry Association, and Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Ventures.
Mr. Brewer is active in various community and charity events. He is an active member of Big Brothers of Los Angeles, a board member for Bizworld.org, (a children's education company) and he frequently speaks to students from elementary school classrooms to graduate-level groups about what it takes to start and build a successful company.
