Dave is the CEO of New York City-based Simulmedia, Inc., a marketing technology company serving the television industry which he founded in late 2008. A serial entrepreneur, Morgan previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
A lawyer by training, Morgan served as General Counsel and Director of New Media Ventures at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in the early 1990’s and also spent several years as an associate with the Philadelphia law firm Duane Morris. He currently serves on the executive committee and board of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and on the boards of directors of newspaper publisher AH Belo, Inc. (AHC), the American Press Institute (API) and Chumby Industries.
Morgan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He and his wife writer Lorea Canales live in Manhattan with their two girls.
