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After completing the turnaround of Greenfield Online (formerly NASDAQ: SRVY) Albert Angrisani lead the sale of the company to the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) for $497 million on October 13, 2008. Up until that point, Mr. Angrisani was President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenfield Online/Ciao, the worlds largest provider of global consumer attitudes about products and services, via two distinct business units; Web-based comparison shopping and Internet survey solutions. Mr. Angrisani joined Greenfield Online/Ciao in September 2005 after the company experienced operating and financial difficulties.
Prior to joining Greenfield/Ciao Mr. Angrisani was President and Chief Operating Officer of Harris Interactive, Inc. (2002 - 2004), (Nasdaq: HPOL), a leading Internet marketing research company and parent of The Harris Poll™. Prior to joining Greenfield/Ciao Mr. Angrisani was President and Chief Operating Officer of Harris Interactive, Inc. (2002 - 2004), (Nasdaq: HPOL), a leading Internet marketing research company and parent of The Harris Poll™. By the end of his tenure at Harris, Mr. Angrisani led a turnaround that increased shareholder value by more than $200 million over the two year period. Prior to joining Harris, Mr. Angrisani was President and Chief Executive Officer of Total Research Corporation (1999 – 2002), (Nasdaq: TOTL), which he merged with Harris Interactive after overseeing the company’s turnaround and a $100 million increase in its shareholder value.
Mr. Angrisani acquired his turnaround management skills through the successful execution of a variety of entrepreneurial challenges with organizations that specialized in working with distress situations, including the founding of Angrisani Partners LLC (1994 – 1999), a privately held concern that specialized in providing corporations with turnaround management services. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Princeton, NJ based TFG, Inc. (1993 – 1994), a turnaround group that specialized in the retail and transportation industries and Managing Director with Arthur D. Little, Inc. out of Cambridge, MA (1989 – 1993). At ADL Mr. Angrisani specialized in restructuring transactions for the financial services industry and was ADL’s specialist to the Federal Office of Thrift Supervision in Washington, DC and the 1990 Savings and Loan industry “bailout.”
Mr. Angrisani served in President Reagan’s Administration as the United States Assistant Secretary of Labor and Chief of Staff (1980 – 1984). As second in command at the Department of Labor, Mr. Angrisani managed $33 billion in annual budget outlays and 10,000 employees. A key accomplishment engineered by Mr. Angrisani was the creation of the Job Training and Partnership Act (“JTPA”), a public and private partnership that saved billions of dollars and produced a more efficient federal training delivery system. In addition, Mr. Angrisani restructured the pension and welfare benefits administration and the federal unemployment insurance system.
Prior to serving in the Federal Government, Mr. Angrisani was a Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, in New York, (1972 – 1980). At Chase, he was the Strategic Planning Executive for the fee income business of the Chase Bank and Chase Investors Management Corp., including trust and fiduciary investments, pensions, private banking, corporate trusts, and stock transfers.
Mr. Angrisani received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University in 1971, an APC in Accounting from New York University and an MBA in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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