Management Team
Jarvis Coffin (President and Chief Executive Officer)
Jarvis is a co-founder of Burst Media and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1995 and as a Director since 2000. From 1993 to 1995, Jarvis worked at the Los Angeles Times where he was Director of National Advertising. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Sales at Business Week for two years. Between 1985 and 1991, Jarvis was employed at USA Today where he held various positions, including Director of Northeastern Sales. He began his advertising career in 1979 at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in New York. Jarvis has been a member of the Advertising Club of New York and the Lantern Club of Boston and was Chairman of the Newspaper Association of America's Committee on Financial Advertising. Jarvis obtained a BA in Political Science from Hobart College.
Harry Klein (Chief Operating Officer)
Harry joined Burst Media in 2000 as Vice President of Operations. Between 1992 and 1999, Harry was President and Chief Executive Officer of Granite Communications Inc, which supplied hand-held wireless communication devices. From 1984 to 1992, Harry worked for Unisys Defense Systems, a supplier of militarized and governmental products. While at Unisys, Harry served as Director of NEXRAD Operations, Vice President of Postal Systems, and Vice President of Operations. Harry obtained a BS in Electrical Engineering from Florida Technical College.
Steven Hill (Chief Financial Officer)
Steven joined the Burst Media management team as CFO in September, 2008, after serving on the Board of Directors since 2002. Steven has spent the last 25 years in the publishing, cable and software industries. He is currently President and Publisher of Flying Point Press, a publisher of historical books for children and young adults. Until 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Salient Stills, Inc., a software company that commercializes image-processing technology originally developed in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also served as Senior Vice President for Continental Cablevision/MediaOne and led the successful development and launch of the company’s high-speed cable modem business. Following graduation from Stanford Business School in 1975, Steven spent three years at Arthur Andersen in the audit division.
David Stein (Chief Technology Officer)
David is a co-founder of Burst Media and has served as its Chief Technology Officer since 1995 and as a Director since 2000. In 1995, he created the Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index, one of the earliest search directories on the Internet. From 1991 until 1996, David was Director of New Product Development for Damirus Corporation, a privately owned software company located in Burlington, Massachusetts. Prior to 1991, he was an electrical engineer for the Raytheon Company. David obtained a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont.
Donald Byrnes (Executive Vice President, Media Sales)
Don joined Burst in 2007 and manages Burst's two media sales divisions Burst Network and Burst Direct. He has more than 25 years experience as a senior executive in advertising and media companies. From October 1998 to August 2002, Don was CEO of three divisions of Carat North America, the media agency network. Earlier in his career, he was the Executive Vice President of Ziff Davis, the special interest media and publishing company. Don began his career in sales and held various sales management positions at Penton Publishing, EF Hutton and IBM, and was a national accounts manager for IDG’s ComputerWorld. Don holds a BS in Marketing from Christian Brothers University.
Sean Keaveny (Senior Vice President, adConductor Sales)
Sean joined Burst in January 2008 to lead the adConductor division of Burst Media. He joined Burst from Reed Business Information where he was serving as Vice President of Operations at Reed Business Interactive, a separate division within Reed Business with the mission of accelerating online revenue growth and transforming a traditional print-based publisher into a multiplatform media company. Sean was with Reed since 1997 where he held numerous titles, including Vice President of Finance for the Boston Division, Corporate Controller, and Assistant Corporate Controller. Prior to Reed, Sean was an auditor with Arthur Andersen from 1992 until 1997. Sean holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from the College of Holy Cross.
