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A Message from TeeBeeDee Founder Robin Wolaner

Twenty years ago I started a magazine for my generation--Parenting--as we embarked on the adventure of having kids. Now my generation is on to a new adventure--redefining the meaning of midlife.

I had the idea for TeeBeeDee in the best year of my life--when I turned 50. I looked around at my amazing circle of friends and colleagues and thought about how much we learn from each other. How when we get together, the words flow with deeper insights, confidence, and imagination than they used to. And thanks to the Internet, we now have tools that help us learn from each other.

TeeBeeDee (tbd.com) stands for "To Be Determined" -- because we built this site to connect all of us who think that life is still To Be Determined.

Management Team Bios

Robin Wolaner, CEO

Robin got here by starting Parenting Magazine more than 20 years ago (before she had kids). She then helped launch Vibe Magazine, ran Sunset Publishing (no one else could believe that a feisty, apartment-dwelling woman would end up running such a whitebread operation, and she got fired from that job), spent five years as an executive at CNET (we say it that way because no one really knows what her job was), and wrote a book called Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Anyway, suffice it to say that she had a few professional notches on her belt and felt that she really culminated her life by having two amazing children and was set up to be their mother mostly. Then she turned 50, fell in love, published her first book, had breast cancer (it turned out not to be life-threatening), and started this company. She's thinking mid-life is pretty cool. Want to know more about Robin? View her profile.

David Markus, Chief Product Officer

Twenty years ago, after stints as a reporter and editor for UPI and CBS magazines, David became editor-in-chief of Parenting Magazine. Seven years later, he stuck a toe in a mysterious pond called the Internet, and co-founded ThriveOnline, one of the web's first consumer health sites. In 2000, he joined the founding team of the Dr. Spock Company, a multi-media company for parents, where he later became CEO, before being recruited to Yahoo! where he served as General Manager of Yahoo! Health. Along the way came five truly inspiring kids: three sons and two daughters, a smart, beautiful, notably patient wife, and, most recently, a shiny, new, British motorcycle. David reports no knowledge of any such thing as mid-life. Want to know more about David? View his profile.

Greg Sherwin, Vice President, Engineering

Greg started his engineering career 20 years ago at a Johns Hopkins University lab. Under a double super secret security clearance, he helped develop a mobile satellite communications control system that was ultimately deployed in the first Gulf War. But he soon grew restless with life in the witness protection program, moving to the Bay Area for the bioengineering PhD program at UC Berkeley/UCSF. Upon recognizing that the field was too esoteric for him (and would limit his cocktail party conversation), he opted instead to work among particle physicists with gravity-defying hairstyles at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). There he developed control system software for their two-mile long particle accelerator. In 1992 at SLAC, he worked on the first Web site in the U.S. and soon found his new passion: the mundane world of Internet media. He joined CNET as a software engineer in 1996, and he has since managed engineering teams at NBC Internet and then as VP of Application Development at CNET. He occasionally risks losing his engineering street cred, however, as when he co-authored a book on Internet public relations, Connecting Online: Creating a Successful Image on the Internet, with his wacky sidekick and (eventual) wife. Want to know more about Greg? View his profile.

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