A couple of months after LookSmart CEO David Hills resigned, the company’s CTO, Michael Grubb, announced his resignation, effective September 7, 2007. Here’s the statement from the SEC 8-K filing:

On August 31, 2007, Michael Grubb, Senior Vice President, Technology and Chief Technology Officer of LookSmart, Ltd. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to resign from his positions due to personal reasons effective September 7, 2007.

Here is Mr. Grubb’s bio from a the SEC filing:

Michael Grubb has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since April 2005 and as our Vice President, Technical Operations since September 2002. Prior to that time, Mr. Grubb served in various positions at Akamai Technologies, a web content delivery service company, most recently as Vice President, Operations and Chief Systems Architect, from March 1999 to September 2002. Mr. Grubb holds an A.B. in Philosophy from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina.

Thanks to Gary Price for notifying us of the SEC filing and resignation.

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