Lucinda Duncalfe Holt

Lucinda Duncalfe Holt is CEO of ClickEquations, a paid search management software company located outside of Philadelphia. Prior to leading ClickEquations, Lucinda co-founded and led TurnTide, an anti-spam technology company. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec for $28 million only six months after founding. Lucinda also served as President & CEO of Destiny WebSolutions, a venture-backed Inc. 500 winner that provided Internet strategy and implementation consulting to large financial institutions.

While growing Destiny from $250,000 to $25 million in revenue Lucinda received many honors. She was named America’s 17th Most Influential Consultant by Consulting Magazine, won the Eastern Technology Council’s Enterprise Award for CEO of the Year, and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Philadelphia. She was also named the Iris Newman Award Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and an Eisenhower Fellow in 2010.

In addition to her CEO roles, Lucinda has held management positions at Infonautics, Automated Call Processing, SEI Investments, and American Express and she was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at First Round Capital. She has served on a number of not-for-profit boards, including World Affairs Council, Innovation Philadelphia, and New Horizons Montessori School. She graduated cum laude from University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from the Wharton School in Entrepreneurial Management. Lucinda blogs at www.CerealCEO.com and you can follow her @LucindaDH.