Chuck Davis

Chuck Davis (born 1960) is an Internet entrepreneur, and chairman and CEO of Prodege, LLC, an El Segundo, California-based online marketing and consumer research company.

His career includes having been CEO of movie ticket site Fandango, and Shopzilla, also known as Bizrate.com.

Early life and education Davis was born in 1960 to Joel and Carol Davis. His father was the president of Davis Publications and Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine Company, and his mother was an interior designer. His grandfather was Bernard G. Davis, co-founder of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.

Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University (1982) and his Master in Business Administration from Harvard University (1986).

During two of his college years, Davis interned for NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle having developed a relationship from his middle school first entrepreneurial media venture, Pro Grid Weekly.

In 2004, Davis won the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Los Angeles Award.

From 2006–2011, Davis led Fandango as its Chairman and CEO. Comcast Corporation acquired Fandango in April 2007.

In May 2014, Davis became chairman and CEO of Prodege, a company whose properties include Swagbucks, In May 2014, concurrently with Davis’ appointment as Prodege's CEO, TCV invested $60 million in Prodege, in the company's only external investment round.

Davis was elected as the 2012–13 international chairman of the Young Presidents' Organization,

Davis was a judge for competitions such as Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Idaho Entrepreneurship Challenge, Shop.org, HBS New Venture Competition, the Harvard Challenge, and Brown University's B-Lab Competition.