Today, uLocate Communications announced that Jim Bankoff, has been elected to uLocate’s Board of Directors. Mr. Bankoff is a Senior Advisor at Providence Equity Partners and also serves on the boards of Sportsblogs, Inc. and Network for Good. He received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.
Prior to joining Providence in 2008, Mr. Bankoff served as Executive Vice President of programming and products at AOL. Previously, Mr. Bankoff served as President of AOL Web Properties, where he coordinated the integration of online properties across Time Warner. In this role, he was responsible for Netscape, CompuServe, Moviefone, MapQuest, ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger services.
While at AOL, Mr. Bankoff spearheaded the development of the new AOL.com and TMZ.com. He presided over consumer web sites such as Moviefone, MapQuest, BloggingStocks, AOL Music and Engadget. Mr. Bankoff also oversaw AOL’s industry-leading instant messaging services, AIM and ICQ, and new social networking and community applications including Blogsmith and Netscape.com.
“We are thrilled to have Jim join our board. His commanding experience in new media and demonstrated leadership in creating world class consumer products will be a great asset to us as we continue to grow our audience for WHERE” said Walt Doyle, CEO of uLocate Communications.
“uLocate has established a solid leadership position in the location based media space with their platform and product WHERE,” said Jim Bankoff. “WHERE offers consumers an unprecedented amount of location based content, including unique applications from major brands, and I’m looking forward to working with Walt, and the entire uLocate team, to capitalize on that leadership position”
