Education
He graduated with a bachelor"s degree in political science from the University of California, Los Los Angeles Lanzone also holds a Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration from Emory University School of Law.
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Jim Lanzone is an American businessman and the current president and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Broadcasting System Interactive, which operates key websites including Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, Columbia Broadcasting System.com, GameSpot, Columbia Broadcasting System News, Metacritic, Columbia Broadcasting System Sports, Chow, MaxPreps.com and television.com.
Career
He took over as President from Neil Ashe in March 2011. Prior to joining Columbia Broadcasting System Interactive, Lanzone was the Chief Executive Officer of Clicker.com, the complete guide to internet television Clicker launched in beta at TechCrunch50 on September 14, 2009 and was acquired by Columbia Broadcasting System in March 2011.
In 1997, Lanzone co-founded eTour, an early provider of information retrieval and cost-per-lead services on the Web.
By 1998, eTour had become a top 50 website and the Web"s #1 ranked site in user frequency (1998 & 1999). Lanzone continued to serve as president of eTour until it was acquired by Ask.com in May 2001.
In addition to Ask.com"s purchase of eTour, Lanzone was hired to lead product management, marketing and engineering, as senior vice president and general manager of Ask.com. Ask.com was purchased by Barry Diller"s InterActiveCorp in 2005, and shortly afterward, Jim Lanzone was named Chief Executive Officer of Ask.com.
He held this position until leaving InterActiveCorp/Ask.com in 2008 to join Redpoint Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence.
Upon his departure, Barry Diller credited Lanzone as "the principal executive responsible for Ask.com"s turnaround". Walt Mossberg praised the new site as being "richer and better organized than typical Google results", and Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land called it the "Apple of Search". In addition to his role at Columbia Broadcasting System Interactive, Lanzone serves as an advisor at Gigya and Ustream.
He is also an investor in such companies as Tasty Labs and Aardvark (Search Engine)|Aardvark.
