Marc Cenedella

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Marc Cenedella
Born (1970-09-15) September 15, 1970 (age 53)
NationalityAmerican
Years active1998-Present
Known for TheLadders.com
Political partyRepublican

Marc Cenedella (born September 15, 1970)[ citation needed ] is an American businessman and political candidate. He is the founding-CEO of Ladders, Inc., a United States-based company. [1] [2] He is also the founder of social app Knozen [3] [4] and has authored or co-authored several books.

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Education

Cenedella graduated with a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1992. [5] [6] He also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992, [7] [6] where he was named a Baker Scholar. [8]

Career

Early in his career, Cenedella founded Forbes Pacifica Trading Company, an import-export business. [9] [10] He sold his interest in the company after graduating from Harvard Business School. [10] Cenedella also worked for The Riverside Company, eventually becoming associate vice president of the organization. [6] [11] [10] In 2000, Cenedella joined HotJobs, eventually becoming Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations. [12] [10] At the end of 2001, Cenedella orchestrated the sale of HotJobs to Yahoo! for $436 million. [13] [14]

Soon after leaving HotJobs, Cenedella teamed up with Alexandre Douzet and Andrew Koch, [12] [15] to create an online job search service aimed at $100K+ professionals. The company was launched under the name The Ladders in August 2003. [1] [16]

On October 10, 2011, then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cenedella was part of his ten-strong "Council on Tech" to help drive the city toward greater tech growth. [17]

In 2012, Cenedella was laying the groundwork for a United States Senate campaign in New York for the seat held by Kirsten E. Gillibrand, [18] but decided not to run after some allegedly racy blog posts were found on his website. [19]

In 2014, Cenedella launched a social mobile app called Knozen. [3] [4] [20]

Cenedella is a writer and contributor to Muck Rack, an aggregator of articles and news to sites like Medium, Business Insider, HuffPost, The Independent, New York Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Fast Company. [21]

In 2022, Cenedella announced that he is running in the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 23rd District, [22] however he withdrew before the primary.[ citation needed ]

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