Tony Gentile, Vice President, Product Management, Healthline Networks, is a software and Internet industry veteran with 15 years of product management and corporate development experience at consumer and business focused Internet/software products and services companies. Prior to Healthline Networks, Mr Gentile was Director of Corporate Development at Knight Ridder Digital, where he led several strategic initiatives, including the development of KRD’s Local Search and Shopping strategy, which led to the acquisition of ShopLocal.com. Before Knight Ridder, Mr Gentile consulted to Overture Services (Yahoo! Search Marketing), where he initiated and led the product and channel strategy for Overture Advertiser Web Services, turning a nascent technology experiment into a FY2003 $400MM channel (accounting for 40% of all Overture revenue) in under six months.

As both an executive and consultant, Mr. Gentile has also worked with a variety of Fortune 500 and start-up companies, including: Kodak (Ofoto), Adobe Systems (Aldus), Vivendi Universal (Davidson & Associates), PointCast, Feedster, VeriSign (Moreover) and others. He also runs the popular buzzhit! blog, where he writes about search, advertising, social media, web 2.0 and decentralized marketplaces.