Turn Names Bruce Falck, Former BrightRoll & Google Exec, as CEO

We are thrilled to announce today the appointment of Bruce Falck as chief executive officer. Bruce joins Turn from Yahoo’s BrightRoll, where he served as chief operating officer and led all business functions through its acquisition. He previously spent eight years at Google, where he helped build and grow the company’s digital advertising businesses, including Invite Media and Google Display Network.

“Bruce has a proven track record and built Google Display Network, DoubleClick Bid Manager, and DoubleClick AdX into multibillion-dollar businesses,” said Jim Barnett, founder and chairman, Turn. “Now, with Bruce added to a seasoned leadership team, we believe the company is ready to accelerate and fully realize its potential as the independent advertising platform for global marketers.”

In Bruce’s own words, “Turn is a leader in the programmatic space and has enormous potential to scale. As both a partner and a competitor, I have seen first-hand Turn’s enormous talent and outstanding technology. We are well positioned to help our prestigious agency and brand customers drive business by creating amazing, relevant experiences for consumers.”

From Advertising Age:

Mr. Falck knows a thing or two about growing private companies, as well as building within large public companies. He helped facilitate the $640 million Brightroll transaction, which Mr. Barnett called “one of the largest and most successful ad tech exits.” At Google, he supported the growth of Invite Media (now it’s called DoubleClick Bid Manager) and AdX, as well as Google Display Network.

“I’m passionate about building businesses,” he said. “As a guy that’s been in ad tech space for the last nine years, I feel lucky to have this opportunity. I’m a big believer that we’re in the early stages of fundamental disruption.”

He senses opportunity in ad tech, despite waning love for the category on Wall Street, he said. “Machines are going to trade media,” he said. “That’s a long-term trend. Folks on Wall Street looking at various financial metrics are not seeing that disruption in my humble opinion.”

Although “the VCs have cooled a bit,” the “Googles, Facebooks, AOL-Verizon’s and now the Yahoos and Twitters see the writing on the wall,” he added.

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