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Blair LaCorte has served as VerticalNet’s
Senior Vice President of Strategy and Electronic Commerce since
January 1999. In February that same year, he played a key role
planning and completing VerticalNet’s successful IPO. Recently Mr.
LaCorte’s responsibilities have included building strategic
partnerships with numerous companies that include IBM and Microsoft.
In addition to implementing e-Commerce strategies, he has also
formed strategic investments with high-tech companies and heads
VerticalNet’s venture capital initiatives.
Before joining VerticalNet, Mr. LaCorte was an Executive in
Residence at Internet Capital Group, specializing in B-to-B
e-commerce companies. Prior to ICG, Mr. LaCorte was the President of
Internet Technology Group and Senior Vice President of Partnerships
at CADIS Inc., a software company specializing in electronic
commerce and procurement in business-to-business markets. Mr.
LaCorte has held various executive positions at Autodesk where he
founded three divisions, the last of which was Autodesk Data
Publishing, an electronic B-to-B publisher of engineering graphics
for design and procurement. Thomas Publishing later purchased ADP.
Before his Autodesk, experience, Mr. LaCorte was Manager of
Worldwide Strategy and Market Planning for Sun Microsystems, and
prior to that was a Senior Consultant at Gemini Consulting
specializing in process engineering.
In 1996, Mr. LaCorte was named one
of the top ten business to business marketers of the year by
Business Marketing and Advertising Age. He received a B.A. from the
University of Maine, holds an FMP degree with honors from General
Electric and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth.. In
addition, Mr. LaCorte also received the Technology of the Year award
from Industry Week, and the Product of the Year award
from NASA Technology.
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