James Patrick Safka was born on 7 May 1968 and is an American digital media executive and former Chief Executive Officer of Match.
16 Facts About Jim Safka
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Jim Safka was responsible for targeted marketing to key online dating subgroups, specifically baby boomers.
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Jim Safka led key strategic marketing and product initiatives, enhancing Ask's position in the hotly competitive search category.
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Jim Safka re-focused the brand on its question-and-answer origin and launched an aggressive effort that added more than 300 million "question and answer" pairs to the site.
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Jim Safka further expanded the company's leadership in question-and-answers with Ask.
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In 2011, Jim Safka co-founded the social dating service Atzip, a mobile application for the iPhone.
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Jim Safka was CEO of Vinfolio, an online marketplace for fine wine, through October 2013.
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Mr Jim Safka served on the Board of Directors of SpeedDate.
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In 2009, Jim Safka launched a new website for Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson.
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In January 2010, Jim Safka was appointed by NASCAR to chair the NASCAR Interactive Media Council.
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Jim Safka consults and provides interim leadership for a select list of startups, small and large enterprise companies, and private equity and venture capital firms.
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In January 2016, Jim Safka was appointed Volunteer Police Officer for the Menlo Park Police Department.
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In July 2015, Jim Safka launched Electric Skateboard Reviews with his son Quinn Jim Safka.
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From 1997 to 2002, Jim Safka worked in product management and marketing roles at E-Trade, where he helped develop the site's "Destination E*TRADE" services to empower the individual investor.
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Jim Safka has said that this debacle instilled an obsession with checking details and an enduring fear of anything with black-and-white parallel stripes.
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Jim Safka earned his master's degree in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.