Rich Pearson is the Chief Marketing Officer at Elance.

Rich leads Elance's global marketing team, including product marketing, talent acquisition, CRM, brand development and communications.

Prior to joining Elance, Rich led marketing and business development at Posterous through its acquisition by Twitter and previously held senior marketing positions at Yahoo!, Attributor, Homestead and Del Monte Foods.

Rich holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business and a BS in Marketing and Finance from UC Berkeley.