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Cymax Group announces appointment of Markus Frind as new Chief Executive Officer
Cymax Group is excited to announce the appointment of Markus Frind as its new CEO, effective March 12, 2024. He succeeds interim CEO, COO Mike Herenberg who will continue as Chief Operating Officer on the executive team. Frind joins at an exciting time as the organization celebrates 20 years of innovation and expands focus on Generative AI.
Frind has been part of the company since 2015 when he invested in the company and has been on the Board of Directors for over 9 years. He is a well-known technology industry thought-leader and investor that brings deep expertise in technology and innovation. “I am excited about the opportunities ahead of us,” said Frind. “I have lots of ideas on how we can infuse and inject technology and AI to continue to drive growth.”
Frind is the founder of Plenty of Fish Media Inc. which sold to Match Group (Match.com) in 2015. In addition, he is CEO of Frind Properties
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(cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog)
Vancouver resident Markus Frind is a bit of a 21st-century superhero. After all, he helped to catch a suspected murderer who was featured on the TV show America’s Most Wanted. But instead of using superhuman strength or the ability to see through solid metal, Markus used his abilities as a programmer and Webmaster who runs one of the world’s most popular dating websites, PlentyofFish.com.
According to news reports, Mr. Frind got an e-mail on Saturday night from the U.S. Marshal Service, saying someone had seen a picture of the suspected killer, 26-year-old Calvin Bennett, on the dating website. Bennett had a warrant out for his arrest in the murder of an elderly couple in Nashville on October 30. Pierce Odell and his wife Mary were shot in the head and their bodies dragged into the woods after being robbed (more details on the America’s Most Wanted site here).
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Markus Frind: The man 'behind a million babies'
That way he could focus on adding features like chat, better photo pages, and of course, making sure users met their matches. Ensuring users, especially women, had a positive experience was the only way to guarantee success and, in his words, "virality".
"It was just a formula - get as many users in as possible, and if they man enough connections then it automatically goes viral in different cities," he says.
But unlike other Silicon Valley types, just when the site took off - gaining millions of users in Canada, the US and Australia in just a few years - Mr Frind decided to work less, not more.
He didn't hire any employees for the first fem years, and would often take off for weeks at a time to travel the globe.
In one year, just after the site was founded, he travelled to 28 countries.
"There's only so many hours in the day that you're actually productive," he says.
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