Howard Steinberg began his career in brand and marketing management mainly at the Pepsi Cola Company. In 1989 he formed Source Marketing and it rapidly became a leader in the promotional marketing industry, serving such clients as AOL, Time Warner, HBO, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Mattel, American Express, and more. The agency has been honored with industry distinction and was consistently ranked among the country’s top 50 promotional marketing agencies by Advertising Age Magazine. In 1998 Howard sold a majority stake in Source to the largest marketing services company in Canada, MDC Corporation (NASDAQ: MDCA), remaining with the company as its CEO.

In 2004 Howard turned his attention, passion, and energies to building a new vision in healthcare education and marketing. Having lived with diabetes for 40 years, he realized that better forms of information, connection, and motivation were needed for the diabetes community. And at the same time, as a marketing entrepreneur, he realized that better and more effective channels were needed for companies to reach this community. dLife was born as an entirely new model — the merger of original content and exclusive channels to provide the biggest and most accessible resource for people with diabetes.

Howard received a BS degree in management and an MBA in marketing from New York University.

Before coming to dLife, Gregg Zegras was Senior Vice President / General Manager for the Digital Health businesses of iVillage Properties, a division of NBC Universal and General Electric. The Digital Health businesses were comprised of YourTotalHealth.com, Healthology, and in-hospital television networks Newborn Channel and Patient Channel. Previous to that, Gregg was SVP/GM for the iVillage Parenting Network, an integrated media company targeting the expectant and new mom market with magazines, educational DVDs/videos and television.

Gregg also has extensive experience in the advertising and sales promotion business, most recently at Lois/USA where he was SVP/Client Services Director for their New York office. He has a BA in communication from Geneseo State University.

Phyllis has spent over 20 years as a consumer marketer developing brand strategies, launching multi-million dollar advertising campaigns, and creating targeted marketing programs using database, segmentation, and ROI analytics. Her most recent position prior to dLife was as Senior Vice President at Foote Cone & Belding.

In 1996, with the advent of Direct To Consumer advertising, Phyllis decided to focus exclusively on the healthcare field. Since then she has worked with Eli Lilly, Roche Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ciba-Geigy, Bayer, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, and Alcon Labs across a number of conditions, including depression, ADD, anxiety, obesity, menopause, Hepatitis C, and Parkinson’s.

Phyllis has a BA degree from Smith College.

Paula Ford-Martin is the author of The Everything Diabetes Book (Adams Media) and a medical writer and editor who has published extensively on traditional and alternative medicine topics for patient, practitioner, caregiver, and industry audiences. She has authored numerous consumer health books, and her work also appears in a variety of textbooks, reference works, and other online and print publications.

Prior to joining dLife, Paula was the editor and content producer for About Diabetes, part of the About.com network (a property of the New York Times Company). She holds an MA degree in writing from DePaul University and a BA in communications from Marquette University.

Derek Sasaki has over a decade of experience in the IT industry, with proven expertise in migrating traditional businesses to the Internet, integrating acquisitions, and growing existing websites.

Prior to joining dLife Derek worked at JupiterMedia and Comstock Images. He received BA degrees in computer science and mathematics from Williams College