Strategic Advisory Council Members

JoelChaplin

Joel Chaplin

Vice President of IT Operations and Enterprise Systems Motricity

Joel Chaplin is the Vice President of IT Operations and Enterprise Systems at Motricity (formerly Infospace Mobile).

Motricity is a leading provider of mobile content services and solutions that enable consumers to receive the right content at the right time, every time. The company's offerings span the content delivery chain, delivering profitable and reliable mobile content offerings for mobile operators, media and entertainment companies, mobile specialists and more. In Mr. Chaplin’s seven year tenure at Motricity, he has led them from a startup with a single data center in Redmond to a company with a global technology presence with geo redundant data centers on both coasts and in Europe.

Mr. Chaplin is responsible for the continuous improvement of service quality across all products, and ensuring that Motricity consistently meets and exceeds the stringent service level targets up to 5 9’s of availability required by its mobile carrier customers. Mr. Chaplin has also led the company through numerous acquisition integrations, as well as consolidating and streamlining operations to maintain effective and cost efficient operations. In the area of enterprise information technology, Mr. Chaplin led the company through the initial Sarbanes-Oxley certification process and all subsequent annual certifications with no material weaknesses in I/T.

Previously, Mr. Chaplin was the Director of Technical Operations at Go2Net, an online search and directory company, where he managed the rapid growth of their production infrastructure and associated support teams. Mr. Chaplin also led the technical integration activities when Go2Net merged with InfoSpace in 2000, and moved into the Vice President of Operations role for InfoSpace in 2001.

Prior to joining Go2Net, Mr. Chaplin served in a variety of technical management and leadership roles for over a decade at the Boeing Company.

Mr. Chaplin is a Washington State native and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in business administration in 1986.