Chuck Davis (businessman)

Davis was born in 1960 to Joel and Carol Davis. His father was the president of Davis Publications and Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine Company, and his mother was an interior designer. His grandfather was Bernard G. Davis, co-founder of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University (1982) and his Master in Business Administration from Harvard University (1986). During two of his college years, Davis interned for NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle having developed a relationship from his middle school first entrepreneurial media venture, Pro Grid Weekly. ==Career==

Davis started his professional career in marketing, circulation, and financial roles at Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated, Life, and Time magazines. In 2004, Davis won the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Los Angeles Award. From 2006–2011, Davis led Fandango as its Chairman and CEO. Comcast Corporation acquired Fandango in April 2007. In May 2014, Davis became chairman and CEO of Prodege, a company whose properties include Swagbucks, In May 2014, concurrently with Davis’ appointment as Prodege's CEO, TCV invested $60 million in Prodege, in the company's only external investment round. ==Other activities==

Davis is a digital industry board director and adviser to several companies. He is executive chairman of The Teaching Company, a director for the publicly traded wireless company Boingo Wireless, Inc. and Cyndx Partners, a boutique investment bank. Davis was elected as the 2012–13 international chairman of the Young Presidents' Organization, Davis was a judge for competitions such as Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award,{{cite web|url=https://www.olmsteadwilliams.com/meet-the-entrepreneur-of-the-year-judges-chuck-davis | title=Meet the Entrepreneur Of The Year judges: Chuck Davis ==References==