# Daniel Finnigan

> Daniel “Dan” Finnigan is a San Francisco Bay Area technology executive whose career runs from newspaper reporting and early digital classifieds to leadership roles at Smartpages.com, Knight Ridder Digital, Yahoo HotJobs, Jobvite, Filtered and Enboarder. His recurring subject is the handoff between people and systems: how employers find talent, how candidates prove what they can do and how a new hire becomes connected enough to succeed.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Enboarder (appointed September 2024)
- **Organizations:** Enboarder, Filtered, Jobvite, Yahoo, Yahoo HotJobs, Knight Ridder Digital, CareerBuilder, SBC Interactive, Smartpages.com, Benchmark Capital, JobTrain
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A. in Communications and Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Helped launch Smartpages.com, later known as Yellowpages.com., Led Knight Ridder Digital and helped lead the joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune., Doubled Yahoo HotJobs revenue between 2002 and 2007.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked as a newspaper reporter and later in new business development at the Los Angeles Times.
- **1990s** — Helped launch Smartpages.com and led SBC Interactive as CEO.
- **1999-2002** — Led Knight Ridder Digital and helped drive the joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune.
- **2002-2007** — Served as a Yahoo senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo HotJobs; revenue doubled during the period.
- **2008** — Joined Jobvite as president and CEO when the company had about ten employees.
- **2019** — Led Jobvite through a $200 million investment and the acquisitions of Canvas, RolePoint and Talemetry.
- **2019** — Joined the board of workforce-development nonprofit JobTrain.
- **2022** — Became CEO of technical interview platform Filtered as it announced $10 million in financing.
- **2024** — Appointed CEO of Enboarder to guide growth and AI research and development.

## Achievements

- Helped launch Smartpages.com, later known as Yellowpages.com.
- Led Knight Ridder Digital and helped lead the joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune.
- Doubled Yahoo HotJobs revenue between 2002 and 2007.
- Established a Yahoo HotJobs partnership with a consortium of more than 700 newspapers.
- Joined Jobvite as its tenth employee and led it into a recruiting SaaS platform reported at $70 million in annual recurring revenue.
- Led Jobvite during its 2019 $200 million investment and acquisitions of Canvas, RolePoint and Talemetry.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Shared thanks to the Enboarder team after attending the HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas and reflected on his first 16 months with the company.
- **2024-10** — Outlined a personalized, manager-led onboarding approach in an interview with HRD Australia.
- **2024-09** — Enboarder announced his appointment as chief executive officer.

## Links

- Website: https://enboarder.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfinnigan

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Last updated: 2026-08-18