Jim Barnett

San Francisco Bay Area

Jim is the CEO and co-founder of Glint, the real-time employee engagement platform. He is also chairman and co-founder of Turn where he was CEO for many years, and chairman of Sojern.

From 2004 until 2009, Jim was CEO, co-founder and chairman of Turn Inc., the leading platform enabling dcross-channel advertising and data management. Before that he was president of Overture Search, a division of Overture Services, Inc. Jim joined Overture via its acquisition of AltaVista Company, where he was president and CEO. Jim was also president of Ancestry.com (MyFamily.com then) and president and CEO of ThirdAge Media, which was acquired by Ancestry.com. Prior to that, Jim was president and CEO of Infogrammes North America, a leading global publisher of video games and entertainment software. He was also chairman, president and CEO of Accolade Inc, Infogrammes' predecessor company, and prior to that was chief operating officer of an “Inc. 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies.”

Jim has served on the boards of several public and private companies. He was chairman of SideStep, Inc. and Extole Inc. and a director and early investor in Petco Inc.

Jim earned a bachelor's degree, MBA and J.D. from Stanford University.

  • Education
    • Stanford