David Ingram

David Ingram is co-founder of Brownbook.net, a free directory that anyone can edit. Follow Dave on Twitter: http://twitter.com/daveingram. David spent many years in 'traditional' big business directory companies before migrating to the new wave of social media and user-generated websites which led directly to his involvement in Brownbook.net. At the start of the commercial Internet in 1995 his company was building large scale bespoke e-commerce solutions for UK blue chip clients like Tesco and Volkswagen. He led the development and launch of a mass market e-commerce solution for SMEs at the directory company Freepages/Scoot, and went on to lead product management for an international e-procurement company during the early part of the 2000s. He's consulted on digital asset management products at Sony and on strategies for monetizing BT's online directory enquiries service on BT.com. In 2005 he joined a social networking, file sharing, and user generated content start up to head up product strategy and saw that grew from 3 people to a team of over 30 on both sides of the Atlantic. Brownbook.net—a free directory that anyone can edit—is his latest project; since launch it has enjoyed consistent rapid growth worldwide.

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