David R. Humble

DAVID R. HUMBLE is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
eDiets.com, Inc., the leading online destination for diet-related
programs, information and resources. Mr. Humble founded eDiets in 1996
and has led the company to become the third most trafficked general
health site on the Internet according to Jupiter Media Metrix. Mr.
Humble has a long, successful business history in founding companies and
taking them to profitability ‘ and going public. In 1987 he founded
Advanced Promotion Technologies, Inc., a marketer of interactive point
of sale supermarket marketing systems. As Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Advanced Promotion Technologies, he completed
development of a satellite-based marketing system for retail stores and
helped facilitate the company’s successful IPO and NASDAQ listing. Prior
to Advanced Promotion Technologies, Mr. Humble founded and served as
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of CheckRobot, Inc.,
from 1985 to 1987. CheckRobot created the first self-checkout system for
supermarkets and completed a successful IPO in 1986 under his direction.
In another successful business venture, Mr. Humble was part of the
original management team of Sensormatic Electronics, a company that
develops and markets electronic security and surveillance products,
which was sold to Tyco International for $2.3 billion. From 1968 to
1985, Mr. Humble served Sensormatic in a number of marketing and
operations capacities, including Vice President/Manufacturing and Vice
President/Future Products and was on its Board of Directors. In 2002
Humble was awarded his 17th US patent, which covers the means of using
the Internet to provide an interactive link in a store for the purpose
of providing retailers and manufacturers with information to measure the
response of the consumers to sales and marketing information. He also
holds a patent for the original anti-shoplifting security tag found in
virtually every large retail store worldwide.