Michael Troiano
Holland-Mark
Principal

Mike Troiano is a Principal of Holland-Mark, a Boston-based strategic marketing firm. He spent his early career at top advertising agencies including McCann-Erickson and Foote, Cone & Belding, and became the founding CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Interactive in 1995. Mike co-founded New York-based strategic Internet services firm Brandscape in 1996, and merged it with NASDAQ-listed Primix Solutions in late 1998. After the sale of Primix in 2002 he joined venture-funded mobile content pioneer m-Qube, serving as a member of the executive team until the company was bought by VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) in one of the largest Boston-based venture capital exits of 2006. Mike serves as a board advisor to several Boston area technology startups, including Unbound Commerce, Butterfly Publisher, Crimson Hexagon, and SocialGrow. His blog, Scalable Intimacy, is listed on both the AdAge Power150 and Alltop, and he is ranked in the top 2% of the most influential people on Twitter. Mike is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard Business School.

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