William J. Lansing
President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
William J. Lansing became the president and CEO of InfoSpace in February 2009.
Lansing has more than 20 years experience in the technology industry. He was most recently the president and CEO of Value Vision Media, Inc., where he grew the ShopNBC television home shopping network and the ShopNBC.com eCommerce business. Prior to that, Lansing served as CEO of NBC Internet, and president and CEO of Fingerhut Companies, a direct marketing company with catalog and eCommerce businesses.
Prior to Fingerhut, Lansing was vice president of Business Development at General Electric, reporting directly to Jack Welch. Before joining GE, Lansing was the chief operating officer of Prodigy, Inc., an online joint venture of IBM and Sears, where he led a management buyout.
Lansing practiced securities law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and was a partner at McKinsey & Company.
Lansing earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University.
David Binder
Chief Financial Officer
David Binder was appointed chief financial officer in January 2008 after serving as vice president of finance for InfoSpace since 2004. His management responsibilities include leading the finance organization, overseeing operational finance, accounting and control functions, and investor relations.
Binder has over 15 years experience in finance and development roles in the technology sector. Prior to joining InfoSpace, Binder served as senior director of business development at drugstore.com. Previously, he served as senior director of finance at AT&T Wireless.
David earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and finance from Brandeis University.
Eric Emans
Chief Accounting Officer
Eric Emans was appointed to chief accounting officer in January 2008 after serving as corporate controller for InfoSpace since 2006. His management responsibilities include leading the accounting organization, overseeing financial reporting and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
Prior to returning to InfoSpace, Emans served as director of operations at Corbis Mobile where he was responsible for mobile business operations. Previously, Eric served in a variety of positions at InfoSpace, including senior manager of revenue assurance, and senior manager of finance. Eric began his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP where he served as an auditor.
Emans holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Western Washington University, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington and is a licensed CPA in the state of Washington.
Alejandro C. Torres
General Counsel and Secretary
Alejandro Torres was appointed general counsel and secretary in January 2008 after serving as senior corporate counsel for InfoSpace since 2003. He represents InfoSpace on legal and corporate affairs.
Torres came to InfoSpace from Riddell Williams, P.S., a major law firm based in Seattle, where he served as principal since 2000.
Torres earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington, and his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School.
Sunil Thomas
Chief Technology Officer
Sunil Thomas was appointed CTO in January 2008, after serving InfoSpace as vice president of product engineering for InfoSpace.
Thomas has more than 15 years of experience in producing acclaimed software applications for the Internet. He came to InfoSpace from Zephyr Software where he served as chief technology officer. Prior to Zephyr, Thomas served at Microsoft as an enterprise consultant and Hewlett Packard as a software engineer.
Thomas earned a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science from Bombay University.
Stuart West
Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development
Stuart West joined InfoSpace as chief strategy officer and vice president of Corporate Development in October of 2008. He oversees corporate strategy and M&A activities and is responsible for expanding InfoSpace's business through acquisition, strategic commercial transactions, and entry into new markets.
West has more than 17 years of experience in operational, finance, and Wall Street roles. He was most recently vice president of Operations Finance at Yahoo! Inc. where he was part of the leadership team for Yahoo!’s Mail, Messenger, Flickr, and front page properties. Previously, West served in several executive roles at digital video recorder company TiVo Inc., most recently as acting chief financial officer. West has also served as a business development executive and consultant at Silicon Valley software and service startups.
West began his business career at J.P. Morgan & Co., most recently serving as a vice president in its San Francisco technology investment banking group. His other experience includes the U.S. State Department and the White House.
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the global educational non-profit which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
West received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.
Mike Glover
Vice President of Business Development
Michael Glover was promoted to vice president of business development in April 2008. He is responsible for all aspects of InfoSpace's strategic partner strategy.
Glover brings more than 15 years of business development, sales and marketing experience to InfoSpace. He joined the firm in 2000 as a business development manager before being promoted to director in 2004 and senior director in 2006. Prior to joining InfoSpace, Glover was director of marketing at Uniglobe.com, an online travel agency. He began his career at Sterling Management as a product manager.
Glover is a graduate from Oregon State University where he received his bachelor's degree in business administration.