Active Network Names Dejanovic to New Role

The San Diego-based Active Network today named former Monster Worldwide executive and chief information officer Darko Dejanovic as its chief technology, product, and innovation officer, a newly created role.

At Monster Worldwide, parent of the online employment giant Monster.com, Dejanovic was responsible for global IT strategy, product design, online marketing, consumer sales, and operations and development. He is expected to play a similar role at the Active Network, an Internet and online media company that automates online registrations for sporting, recreational, camping, and other activities.

An Active Network spokeswoman says Dejanovic’s background was particularly compelling because Monster, like the Active Network, focuses on both organizations and consumers, and has reached a revenue run-rate of over $1 billion.

Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.