Ben Kartzman (BS/H&SS ’00)
CEO & Co-Founder
Spongecell

As the CEO and co-founder of Spongecell, Ben Kartzman provides the strategic direction for the company. He is also responsible for sales and marketing of Spongecell.
Previously, Ben was director of Product Management for Guidester, Inc., a venture capital-backed Internet company. He led the re-development and re-deployment of Guidester.com and successfully created new affiliate relationships and developed new sources of revenue generation for both affiliates and the company.

Ben established himself as a formidable leader in global team building and developing highly usable software products through his experiences with Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Intel and several venture-backed start-ups in New York. As an executive at Accenture, he led the sales and delivery of high-value management consulting engagements. While there, he helped his client, Morgan Stanley, to quadruple the size of its onshore and offshore team. By significantly growing the team’s revenues, Ben experienced a meteoric rise in both title and responsibility at Accenture within a year.

Prior to Accenture, Ben was a senior consultant with Bridgeline Software, where he increased sales by several million dollars within 18 months. At Bridgeline and also at C-bridge Internet Solutions, Ben built cross-functional teams to create next-generation portals for clients like The Bank of New York.
 
Ben graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University with a double major in Information & Decision Systems and Human-Computer Interaction. Ben was awarded the prestigious Merck & Company, Inc. Fellowship and the Capital One Scholarship.