Lawrence P. Organ

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Lawrence P. Organ (born 1959 in Toronto, Canada) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Evanston, Illinois-based ConsumerBase LLC. Organ has been an entrepreneur focused on the direct marketing industry since 1986 and is credited with starting a number of companies. He is best known for founding the internet properties of fastWEB and JobsOnline which today are owned, respectively, by Monster Worldwide and Acxiom Corporation.

[edit] Education

Organ earned his B.A. from York University, Toronto, in 1985.

[edit] Controversy

Organ was the topic of a March 27, 2006 Forbes magazine article entitled You Can Surf But You Can't Hide[1] in which the author voiced privacy concerns over ResponderInfo, a product carried by ConsumerBase. That article lead to discussions in privacy blogs [2]as well as direct marketing sources such as Digital Moses Confidential as to the lines between privacy and commerce.