CPX Interactive CEO, Mike Seiman, has been selected as a semi-finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Metro New York for the second year in a row. The awards program, which is in its 24^th year, recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Mike will join his fellow semi-finalists at a judging reception next week, and when the finalists are selected, they will be honored at an Awards Banquet on June 15^th. Mike is honored to be recognized as an exemplary business leader:

“Being nominated again for E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year is not only exciting for me personally, but for all of CPX. The incredible work done by the employees of CPX has helped create an amazing atmosphere to truly grow a global organization.   We should all be proud of this win as it is a true testament to the highly successful business we have created at CPX,” Mike said.

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Recently, CPX Interactive CEO & Co-Founder, Mike Seiman, spoke with the Long Island Exchange about utilizing local advertising.  He shared some tips for Long Island’s small and medium-size businesses looking to advertise online.

Tell us about CPX Interactive. Why do business owners come to CPX?

Mike Seiman: We’re an intermediary between advertisers and Internet publishers. We provide the technology and the service between both sides. We close the deal and have the technology to optimize and run the advertising campaign across the networks we work with.

How has the industry changed since you started the company?

Mike Seiman: It’s expanded a lot. There’s a lot more diversification. You have hundreds of thousands of websites, you have a lot more targeting capabilities, and people are interested in data and measuring the types of users. It’s gotten more intricate, more ROI-focused, and a lot more targeted. In the beginning, it was just: “Okay, let’s place an ad and see what happens.”

Read the rest of Mike’s interview here.

Next month, Sid Fein, CPX Interactive’s EVP of Technology, will be speaking at the 4th annual SugarCon. The conference brings together SugarCRM users, developers, partners, and experts from around the world. This year, it will take place April 12-14 at the Palace Hotel in San Fransisco, CA.

Sid will be speaking at the session called: Case Study: Using Sugar as a Transactional Platform, which takes place on Tuesday, April 13 from 4:00-4:40 pm in the Marina Room.

CPX is a major user of the SugarCRM system, and it has played an essential role in the development of our proprietary ad management platform, CPX adROIt.

“SugarCRM is a significant technology at CPX Interactive enabling our staff to increase the level of service and efficiency that we provide to our Advertisers and Publishers,” Sid said.

Break a leg, Sid!

CPX’s COO & President, Rob Rasko, recorded this message for the OM Expo, which took place in Madrid at the end of February. He begins in Spanish and later switches to English, as he talks about ad networks, platforms, CPX Interactive and the future of online media buying.

Looking to solidify its commitment to a robust North American corporate footprint, CPX taps industry veteran to lead sales development efforts.

New York, NY, February 25, 2010–CPX Interactive has named Gary Bembridge, industry veteran and former sales manager for MSN, as Executive Vice President of Sales. Bembridge’s hiring is part of CPX’s mission to provide market-specific service to major brands and agencies across the globe.  Bembridge will focus on developing new sales and support teams in major North American markets, including Detroit, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.

Read the full press release here.

CPX CEO, Mike Seiman, has been selected as an honoree of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities Alumni Hall of Distinction, and will be recognized at a special ceremony on March 1. The Independent Sector Hall of Distinction includes more than 150 business, community, and government leaders who are graduates of colleges and universities across New York.  Mike, a Hofstra alum, will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the New York State Capitol. In attendance will be William Stachowski, New York State Senator, and Robin Schimminger, New York State Assemblyman.  CPX Interactive congratulates Mike on this honor!

CEO Mike Seiman and CTO Carlton Hickman, co-founders of CPX Interactive, will be honored for their achievements with the Young Alumni Award from their alma mater, Hofstra Univeristy. The award, first presented in 1995, is given to alumni who, “within 10 years of graduation from the University, have significant accomplishments in their professional life or rendered distinguished service to their alma mater.”

Mike and Carlton have certainly made significant accomplishments in their professional lives, creating and building an online ad network that has grown and succeeded tremendously in just seven years. CPX Interactive now delivers more than 30 billion impressions to more than 200 million unique users in more than 60 countries every month.

The ’01 alums have also made it a priority to give back to their alma mater.  They created the Hickman-Seiman Scholarship Fund to be awarded to a student of the new computer science/entrepreneurship program. In addition, both Mike and Carlton are members of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Their award will be presented, along with others, at a special Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday, October 9th. Congratulations to Mike and Carlton!

Mike Seiman is the CEO and Co-Founder of CPX Interactive, a progressive online ad network and global marketing company recently named by Inc. Magazine as the 6th fastest growing privately held advertising and marketing company in the US.

While a student at Hofstra University, Seiman teamed up with his business partner, now CTO of CPX Interactive, to begin monetizing a handful of entertainment websites they had created together. The ad server they built in 1999 set new standards for the industry and developed into a global company that now employs more than 90 people and serves more than 30 billion online ad impressions, in more than 60 countries, every month.

Seiman prides himself on his drive to ‘give back’ and he has leveraged CPX’s huge distribution power to do just that. Through its philanthropic division, CPXample, CPX has contributed millions of ad impressions across its vast network to causes including Save Darfur, Live Earth, American Diabetes Association and Children International. In 2008, Seiman decided to step up CPXample’s ‘skin in the game’ by creating and promoting its own ‘Get Out the Vote’ video and campaign called Vote For It! ’08 (www.voteforit08.org) which boasted a litany of  hip-hop royalty. CPX produced the video and drove more than 1.3 million views to it on YouTube.

Seiman is also extremely active on a personal level with these causes and with others, including the Hebrew Educational Society and the alumni association of his alma mater, Hofstra University.

Outside of his role in CPX Interactive, Seiman is also a principal of an indie movie production house, Chaos2, which has recently completed its first feature length project, the retro-style ‘slasher flick,’ Bloodnight: The Legend of Mary Hatchet.

Mike Seiman has always had extremely high standards for himself in both his personal and business lives. This commitment to excellence stems from a belief that the best way to engage a challenge is to “… see it as an opportunity to discover the best possible version of one’s self, and to help those around you do the same.”

Mike Seiman, CEO of CPX Interactive, was named today as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Metro New York Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Mike is one of 36 regional finalists selected by an independent judging panel. The winners will be announced at an awards gala on Thursday June 25 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.  Ernst & Young established the Entrepreneur of the Year program 23 years ago in order to recognize the achievements and accomplishments of business leaders across the country.

A full list of finalists can be found in the official Ernst & Young press release.  Read about Mike’s entrepreneurial spirit in this Q&A on Blogger.