Nic Di Iorio — Chief Technology Officer, Managing Director of Technology Group and Executive Vice President at XO Group Inc.

Mr. Nic Di Iorio serves as the Chief Technology Officer of XO Group Inc. (formerly The Knot, Inc.) and has been its Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Technology Group since February 2008. Mr. Di Iorio manages the entire technology team in support of the Knot's various business units. As the Knot grows its properties and marketing services and invests in scalable technological platforms, he provides strategic insight to the allocation of technology resources to support its long-term goals. He was Principal of MarCom ASP Limited from July 2006 to January 2007 and Independent Consultant thereafter. Mr. Di Iorio served as the Chief Technology Officer of Interpublic Group of Companies IPG from October 2003 to June 2006 and was responsible for the development, deployment and management of all shared applications, products and services across the operating companies of IPG, including traditional and digital media research, analysis, planning and buying; financial management, analysis and consolidation; business intelligence and reporting; production and project management; knowledge management, access and distribution and digital global collaboration. Prior to IPG, Mr. Di Iorio served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the McCann WorldGroup (a wholly-owned subsidiary of IPG) and Chief Executive Officer of Marketing Communications Technologies (MCT) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the McCann WorldGroup from April 1995 to September 2003. He joined McCann-Erickson Worldwide in April 1995 as Senior Vice President, Director of Information Technology, with overall responsibilities for McCann-Erickson's worldwide IT strategy and implementation. Prior to joining McCann, he spent four years at Young & Rubicam as Vice President, Director of Global Network Services, responsible for the worldwide strategy and implementation of its IT infrastructure. Prior to that, Mr. Di Iorio spent ten years in Research and Development organizations at GTE and AT&T Bell Laboratories working on new technologies in the area of distributed systems, data networking, security and telecommunications. He presently serves on the Board of Directors ExchangeLab International and Asset Link Corporation. He served as Director of Intelligroup Inc., since July 2002. He is a key speaker at trade and professional conferences. He held various leadership roles in the ISO and CCITT international standards committees, where he authored two international standards and chaired two subcommittees. He also participated in the Internet's IETF committee. He has published in both trade and professional publications. Mr. Di Iorio holds Bachelor in Computer Science from City College of New York and MS degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University.