- Lawrence P. Organ
Lawrence P. Organ (born 1959 in
Toronto ,Canada ) is the founder andChief Executive Officer ofEvanston ,Illinois -basedConsumerBase LLC . Organ has been an entrepreneur focused on the direct marketing industry since 1986 and is credited with starting a number of companies. He is best known for founding the internet properties of fastWEB and JobsOnline which today are owned, respectively, byMonster Worldwide andAcxiom Corporation .Education
Organ earned his B.A. from
York University , Toronto, in1985 .Controversy
Organ was the topic of a March 27, 2006
Forbes magazine article entitled "You Can Surf But You Can't Hide" [http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0327/052.html] in which the author voiced privacy concerns over ResponderInfo, a product carried by ConsumerBase. That article lead to discussions in privacy blogs [http://www.berylliumsphere.com/security_mentor/2006_03_01_besphere_archive.html] as well as direct marketing sources such as Digital Moses Confidential regarding the lines between privacy and commerce.External links
* [http://www.monster.com Monster Worldwide, Inc. Website]
* [http://www.fastweb.com FastWeb, LLC Website]
* [http://www.jobsonline.com JobsOnline Website]
* [http://www.acxiom.com Acxiom Corporation Website]
* [http://www.consumerbase.com ConsumerBase LLC Website]
* [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0327/052.html Forbes article on Larry Organ]
* [http://www.http://www.chiefmarketer.com/Channels/online/secondary_search_0624/ Article in ChiefMarketer written by Larry Organ]
* [http://www.www.dmnews.com/Behavioral-data-is-most-preferable/article/109428/ Article in DM News written by Larry Organ]
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