Board of Directors

Elisabeth DeMarse
Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer

Elisabeth DeMarse Elisabeth DeMarse is President and Chief Executive Officer of TheStreet, Inc.

Ms. DeMarse is an information and media industry veteran with broad experience in the digital information business, traditional media (television, radio, book and magazine publishing) and new media. Her particular expertise is developing new products and brands. She is a financial services industry expert with extensive US and international business experience in financial information and technology. Her 20-year employment history includes positions as CEO, President and Executive Vice President with such prestigious entities as Bloomberg L.P., where she was one of the principal architects of the company's expansion and growth, Hoover's, Inc., and Citibank. Prior to TheStreet, she served at CEO of CreditCards.com, which she created by acquiring the assets of ClickSuccess in Austin, Texas, and Freedom Marketing in Colchester, UK. Previously, Elisabeth was CEO of Ilife.com, which she transformed into Bankrate.com, and engineered the turnaround of the company, driving exponential growth and creating $450 million in shareholder value. Bankrate was acquired for $560M by APAX in 2009; in 2010 Bankrate acquired Creditcards.com. Her broad range of functional expertise includes: management; top-line growth; technology; operations; brand strategy; marketing; new business ventures; deal negotiations; acquisitions; business turnarounds; and innovative new product development. She is recognized for developing and leading high profile businesses and as an industry spokesperson.

A member of The Committee of 200, DeMarse is a cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, and of Harvard Business School, with an emphasis in marketing.



James J. Cramer
Director, Founder and Markets Commentator

James J. Cramer Mr. Cramer founded TheStreet, Inc. with Dr. Martin Peretz in 1996. He is currently a Director and Markets Commentator.

Mr. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was President of The Harvard Crimson. He then worked as a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from sports to homicide, before moving to New York to help start American Lawyer magazine. After a three year stint, Mr. Cramer entered Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1984. Instead of practicing law, however, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he worked in sales and trading. In 1987 he left Goldman to start his own hedge fund. While he worked at his fund, he helped start Smart Money for Dow Jones and then in 1996, co-founded TheStreet. In 2000, he retired from active money management to embrace media full-time, including radio and television. Currently, Mr. Cramer is a markets commentator for CNBC and TheStreet. In addition to his daily writing for TheStreet's RealMoney and Action Alerts PLUS, as well as his participation in various video segments on TheStreet TV, Mr. Cramer serves as host of CNBC's Mad Money television program.

Mr. Cramer is the author of "Getting Back to Even," "Confessions of a Street Addict," "You Got Screwed," "Jim Cramer's Real Money," and "Jim Cramer's Mad Money" and is a frequent contributor to New York magazine. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Today with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer.



Sarah Fay
Director

Keith Hall
Director

Keith Hall has been a director of TheStreet, Inc. since November 2012.

Mr. Hall has over 30 years of experience in finance and has served on the board of directors of several public and private companies and has served as chair of various audit, compensation and nominating and governance committees. He is currently a director of MTM Technologies, Inc., Tectura, Inc., and WhiteFence, Inc. Mr. Hall served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LendingTree, Inc., from 1999 to 2007, leading LendingTree's initial public offering in 2000 and its subsequent acquisition by InterActive Corp. in 2003. Prior to LendingTree, Mr. Hall served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for three other publicly traded companies that were subsequently acquired, and prior to that spent over ten years in financial and business development positions with United Technologies Corporation.





William R. Gruver
Director

William R. Gruver William R. Gruver has been a director of TheStreet, Inc. since October 2003.

Prior to joining the Company as a director, Mr. Gruver spent 20 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., the international investment banking firm. In the wake of the 1987 stock market crash, Mr. Gruver was named Chief Administrative Officer of the firm's largest division – the equities division – which, under his leadership, reorganized and redeployed its people and capital to become one of the firm's most profitable areas. In 1992 the firm was listed as one of the "100 Best Companies To Work For," and Mr. Gruver retired as a general partner in the firm's most profitable year of his tenure.

Mr. Gruver has remained active in finance and business. In addition to being a director of TheStreet, Inc., he is a board member of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co, (a $13 Billion Investment Advisor), Bank Nord (a private bank in Milan, Italy), and GPS Partners (a hedge fund based in Los Angeles).

An international strategic consultant for financial firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and Switzerland, Mr. Gruver is also a national arbitrator of the National Association of Securities Dealers and sits on the boards of Berea College and the Geisinger Health System Foundation.

Mr. Gruver is an Adjunct Professor in the Management Department of Bucknell University, where he teaches courses in investment banking, strategy, investments, leadership and, international relations, and where he serves as the Distinguished Executive-in-Residence.

Mr. Gruver's thoughts have been published by (among others) The New Republic, The Association of Governing Boards (AGB), Cornell University's Johnson School, Finanz and Wirtschaft, the Holocaust Centre (Beth Shalom) and Physician Executive.

Mr. Gruver holds an AB (with distinction) from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Columbia University.



Vivek Shah
Director

Vivek Shah

Vivek Shah has been a director of TheStreet, Inc. since May 2010.

Mr. Shah is the CEO of Ziff Davis, Inc., a leading digital media company specializing in the technology vertical, reaching over 40 million in-market buyers and influencers each month.

Mr. Shah was formerly group president, digital for Time Inc.'s news, business and sports properties, which include Time.com, Life.com, CNNMoney.com, SI.com, FanNation.com, Golf.com and SIKids.com. Mr. Shah also served as president of the Fortune/Money Group, which included the magazines Fortune, Money and Fortune Small Business and the website CNNMoney.com. Prior to that, Mr. Shah served as president of digital publishing of the group where he oversaw the launch of CNNMoney.com, one of the Web's largest finance sites.

Mr. Shah holds a BA in Political Science from Tufts University.





Mark Walsh
Director

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