Marzen Media was founded in 2004 and is led by an experienced team of marketing professionals with backgrounds in online travel, retail and finance.

David Kim - Partner

Mr. Kim is a Managing Partner and founder of Marzen Media. Prior to forming Marzen Media, Mr. Kim was the Vice President of Online Marketing at Hotwire, a wholly owned business of Expedia Inc. Mr. Kim joined Hotwire prior to its launch in 2000 and played a key role in building the company to over $750MM in gross revenues, profitability and its eventual sale to IAC/InterActiveCorp for over $660MM. Over his five years at Hotwire, Mr. Kim built and led an online marketing team that drove well over a third of the company’s revenue at industry leading cost effectiveness. His department was responsible for business development, search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, online partnerships, media buys, and ad sales.

Prior to Hotwire, Mr. Kim led affiliate marketing for Petstore.com. He grew revenue at triple the rate of other marketing programs while maintaining the lowest customer acquisition cost of all channels. Prior to Petstore.com, Mr. Kim spent three years at Visa International as a Product Marketing Manager where he managed software localization and marketing projects.

Mr. Kim attended The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Tom Nguyen - Partner

Mr. Nguyen is a Managing Partner and founder of Marzen Media. Prior to forming Marzen Media, Mr. Nguyen co-founded Gifts.com, the web’s leading gift idea website. After the initial launch of Gifts.com he was responsible for all aspects of marketing including branding, search (SEO/SEM), offline media, online media buys and strategic partnerships. Within 18 months, Mr. Nguyen’s efforts resulted in Gifts.com ranking consistently in the top three results for most gift-related searches on each of the major search engines. In the fall of 2006, Mr. Nguyen managed the creation, planning and execution of a $5M national television campaign which drove over 5M unique visitors in December 2006 (source: ComScore).

Before starting Gifts.com, Mr. Nguyen was on the launch team at Hotwire. Early on, he led development of the company’s key performance indicators, reporting system and forecasting process. He later managed forecasting and marketng analytics for all areas of online and offline marketing. Mr. Nguyen started his career as a company planner at Gap, Inc. where he managed forecasting, planning and day-to-day financial management of businesses worth over $150 million in annual revenue for Gap’s Old Navy division.

Mr. Nguyen is a Yale University alumnus.