Brian "Vegas" Anthony Thornton (born October 19 1979, in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a professional technology business entrepreneur and humanitarian in the United States, currently involved with many Las Vegas and Southern California based technology companies and was one of the founders of global internet property, DoubleClick. Nicknamed "Vegas" by friends while residing in Las Vegas, Thornton is recognized for his humanitarian, volunteerism in the community, and technology business development.

Early life

As a child growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, Thornton and his mother Twila moved many times and attended many elementary, secondary, and high schools and graduated high school from Trinity Christian School in Las Vegas.

In January 2005 after the southern Asian tsunami struck Sri Lanka, Thornton traveled to Sri Lanka and spent 4 months assisting with the relief efforts along with a loosely gathered group he led, Sri Lanka Outreach. Among the groups work, orphanages and small villages, and churches were proided wit physcal, non physical and developmental assistance. He returned to the US to address family issues.

Returning from Sri Lanka he met Leanne Kelker and is currently engaged to Clark County School District school teacher.

Education and Business

Thornton formally atended CCSN in Nevada, UNLV in Nevada and UCBoulder in Colorado. As of November 2006, he has not graduated.

Created the first Post Click Tracking (PCT) system available for enterprise business, Thornton co-founded OptInEmail.com as a technology business. In September of 1998, after high school graduation, assisted in the company devlopment and move in Boulder, Colorado. In May of 2000, the company was acquired by DoubleClick, and Thornton joined the newly formed email division along with offline data provider Abacus Direct. With team, Thornton later created the DART email products suite.

In July of 2001 Thornton assisted with the US government for the development of congressionaly required ELMS and EPRWEB systems. These systems provide a centralized collection and report of environmental standards within the 4000 naval military installations worldwide.

In 2002-03, Thornton provided technology for internet technology company Everyone.net.

In September of 2003 Thornton assisted MIT startup Akamai and TraderWeb through business development and technology development.

In 2005, Thornton co developed online learning systems for Global Training Technologies, now eVital Communications.

Thornton is currently developing campus technology for the National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, Oklahoma City, OK and Las Vegas, NV

Volunteer Activities

Thornton is director of volunteers for the non-profits B.C. McGabe Boys and Girls Club and Las Vegas Rescue Mission.

http://www.volunteermatch.org/orgs/org50552.html

http://www.volunteermatch.org/orgs/org55602.html

Awards

1998 — Webby Award e-mail Technology

1998 — Wired Technology That "Speaks"

2005 — Las Vegas Review Journal, Humanitarian of the Year

2005 — Adobe Systems, Case Study

Associations

Founder - Las Vegas Cold Fusion User Group

Member / Former V.P. Programs - Las Vegas Chapter of the American Marketing Association

http://wsfinder.jot.com/SF Web Innovators/ San Fransisco Web Innovators

See also

DoubleClick

Everyone.net

email

Las Vegas

Links

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/living/occasions/engagements/16328483.htm

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=104632&loc=en_us

http://wwwc.house.gov/gibbons/display-newsletter.asp?id=137

http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Jun-05-Thu-2003/21464324.html

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=104632&loc=en_us