Tim Sullivan, TweetPresident and Chief Executive Officer at Ancestry.com

Biography: Tim Sullivan

Timothy Sullivan has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Ancestry.com since September 2005. Prior to joining Ancestry.com, Mr. Sullivan was Chief Operating Officer and then President and CEO of Match.com from January 2001 to September 2004. From May 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Sullivan served as Vice President of E-commerce for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. From June 1991 to May 1999, Mr. Sullivan held multiple positions at The Walt Disney Company, including Vice President and Managing Director of Buena Vista Home Entertainment Asia Pacific from July 1997 to May 1999. Mr. Sullivan holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Presentation: TweetCreating Flow: An Executive Perspective

Time: Friday 11:15 - 11:45 / Location: Fisher Room

Over the past few years Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history company, has undergone significant transformation within many aspects of its business. Steady growth combined with Agile adoption, continuous delivery, and improvements in technology and infrastructure, has created an organization focused on delivering value. Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan will provide perspective from an executive point of view including what inspired change in the business and some advice to other executives and senior management on what they can do to start their own transformation and increase flow.