Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 14, 2002

Kevin Clark – Screamingmedia Inc (scrm)

KEVIN C. CLARK is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for ScreamingMedia Inc., a leading global provider of content and technology solutions for all enterprise platforms. Mr. Clark has been ScreamingMedia's Chairman since May 2001 and CEO since November 1999. In 1986, he co-founded Cross Country TravCorps, the nation's largest healthcare professional placement firm. In 1996, Mr. Clark took the helm of interactive marketing firm Poppe Tyson as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, after serving for nearly two years as an Advisor and member of its Board of Directors. In 1994, Mr. Clark was selected by Fortune magazine as one of the 'Forty under Forty' ' the country's top entrepreneurs under 40 years of age. In the same year, Junior Achievement honored him with their National Distinguished Graduate Award. In 2000 and 2001, Silicon Alley Reporter named Mr. Clark as one of the top 100 media executives, and this year Ernst & Young honored him with their Entrepreneur of the Year award. Under Mr. Clark's management, ScreamingMedia was listed on Software Magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Technology Companies 2001 and honored with Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50 Award 2000 and 2001 and Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500 2001 ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in the US and Canada. He's been a member of the Young Presidents Organization for 10 years, and he is the Chairman of its Board of Directors for the Fairchester Chapter. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the King & Low - Heywood Thomas School in Stamford and serves on the Board of Junior Achievement of New York. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for HealthMarket, Inc. in Norwalk, Connecticut. Profile
TWST: We'd like to begin with a brief overview of the history and

evolution of ScreamingMedia, Inc.

Mr. Clark: ScreamingMedia was founded by an Internet entrepreneur named

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