Pete Estler

Peter Estler is a successful serial entrepreneur with world-renowned expertise in integrated technologies, database marketing, business development, new media and finance. In 1993, Estler was the Founder and CEO of dbINTELLECT Technologies, a marketing information warehouse company for elite customers including General Motors, Chase, MCI, Merrill Lynch, Sprint, Signet Bank, TRW and Nielsen. Within three years of operations, the company achieved over $50 million in annual revenue. Estler then went on to start his next company in 1996 when he became the Founder and CEO of MatchLogic, an innovative Internet advertising company whose clients included General Motors and Procter & Gamble. After 14 months of operations, the company was sold in an all-stock deal for $90 million. The following 10 months returned nearly $1 billion to the original MatchLogic investors as the Excite stock price went up over 10 times. During his career, Estler also made substantial investments in real estate assets on an international basis. Out of college, Estler was recruited to Bell Laboratories where he specialized in Telephony Systems and Systems Architecture. After the break-up of AT&T, Estler joined the ranks of EDS, where he spent 11 years and was recognized as one of the top 16 employees, out of 70,000 employees, in the company being groomed for executive management.