Management Team

Michael Wilson, CEO

Prior to founding Small World Labs, Michael served as the Director of Product Management at Coremetrics, a leading provider of web analytics solutions. As head of the group, Michael’s responsibilities included delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing partner technologies. Before Coremetrics, Michael founded Wilson & Company, a return on investment consulting company. Prior to that, Michael was a management consultant for R. B. Webber & Company (a spin-off of McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group associates) where he led projects for high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, FedEx, ReSound (a hearing assistance accessories provider), and several start ups that were later acquired by larger companies, such as Cisco and Vignette.

Michael holds a B.A. in economics with summa cum laude and departmental honors from Yale University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University.

Miles Sims, VP of Community Solutions

Prior to joining Small World Labs, Miles held various positions at AT&T including roles on the U-verse IPTV team and the product marketing team working on the AT&T Yahoo! Partnership. As part of the AT&T Yahoo! team, Miles responsibilities included delivering online security products and assessing partner technologies. Prior to AT&T Miles managed the VPN product line for Vectris, an SDSL broadband provider,as a key member of the product team. Before Vectris Miles spent time in the start-up arena working in various marketing and technology roles.

Miles holds a B.S. in communications from Tarleton State University.

David Glenn, VP of Business Development

Prior to joining Small World Labs, David led the product management team at AT&T where he created and launched the US’ largest broadband service (AT&T Yahoo! DSL). In David’s career, he has been a part of and helped to fund 5 different start-up companies. Additionally, he has held leadership positions where he was responsible for Product Management, Sales, Product Marketing, Strategy and Integration, Project Management Office and Network Operations. David has worked for and with Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Cisco, Sun MicroSystems and Yahoo!.

David holds a B.S. in Marketing with summa cum laude honors from La Salle University.

Kenneth Hillman, Director of Sales

Prior to joining the Small World Labs team in 2006, Kenneth spent 7 + years at Dell Inc. in multiple hardware and software sales capacities. While at Dell, Kenneth received The Customer Advocate Award, Team Player Award, attended multiple Circle of Excellence Award Vacations, and the Sales Representative of the Year Award in FY’05. Kenneth has also gained sales and finance experience through previous employers Taylor Made Golf, ED&F Man International, and Morgan Stanley.

Kenneth graduated from the University of Kansas in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Wells Oliver, Director of Technology

Prior to joining Small World Labs, Wells held the position of solutions architect for Akona Systems where he worked to design and deliver internal products for Microsoft and various other clients. Before that he worked as a systems engineer for HouseValues, Inc., a Seattle-area startup providing technology services to real estate professionals, where he was a key member of a small team who developed HomePages.com, a premiere online maps-based search engine for homebuyers.

Wells holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Heather Havins, Director of Client Services

Prior to joining Small World Labs, Heather was a Project Manager at Digital Motorworks, a subsidiary of Automatic Data Processing. In this role she was responsible for managing delivery of web products and data services to Fortune 100 companies in the automotive space, including General Motors and Ford Motor Company.

Heather holds a B.A. in Communications from Southwest Texas State University.

Sam Eder, Director of Marketing

Prior to joining Small World Labs, Sam headed up lead generation marketing for web-based technology firms including Datran Media. An early adopter of online communities, Sam served as Marketing Specialist for Apple’s community of teachers- the Apple Learning Interchange. In addition to his online efforts, Sam has successfully managed traditional marketing channels for both B2B and B2C campaigns.

Sam holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia..

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