Matt Coffin Explained

Matt Coffin
Occupation:Entrepreneur, investor
Education:Babson College
Height:6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)

Matt Coffin is an internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and was the president of LowerMyBills.com, which was sold to Experian in 2005 for $380 million.[1] [2] He was also the president of Experian Online Customer Acquisition Services.

Life and career

Coffin graduated from Babson College in 1990 and was named to the Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2009 by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.[3] He was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Year award winner in 2007 and Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Coffin also sat on the board of directors for Business.com,[4] which was started by incubator eCompanies, whose venture arm was an early investor in LowerMyBills.com. He also invested in both Buscape, which was sold in October 2009 for $330M,[5] and HauteLook, which was sold to Nordstrom in February 2011 for $270M.[6]

He currently sits on the board of directors for eBureau[7] Machinima, and Mahalo.[8] [9] [10] [11]

Notes and References

  1. News: Suster . Mark . Master Of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups. June 21, 2018 . April 19, 2011.
  2. News: Experian Interactive launches with acquisition of LowerMyBills.com - Split Rock Partners, LLC . June 21, 2018 . Split Rock Partners, LLC . May 5, 2005.
  3. 2009 Honorees, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-31
  4. Web site: Business.com.
  5. http://thisweekinstartups.com/tag/lowermybills-com. Thisweekinstartups.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  6. Rao, Leena (2011-17-02). https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/nordstrom-acquires-flash-sales-site-hautelook-for-270-million. Techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  7. http://www.ebureau.com eBureau
  8. Web site: Board of Directors - eBureau.
  9. Web site: Ernst & Young LLP - EOY Program Update . 2007-11-13 . 2007-09-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070912190945/http://web002.ey.com/eoy/eoylook.nsf/AreaList/Greater+Los+Angeles . dead .
  10. Web site: Technology Council of Southern California > Home.
  11. Web site: http://mattcoffin.typepad.com . mattcoffin.typepad.com . 2007-05-16.

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