Craig McLaughlin is the president and CEO of Calif.-based Extractable, a Web strategy consultancy. In his position, McLaughlin leads the day-to-day activities of a team of expert Web consultants that serve the financial services and high technology industries. Under his guidance, Extractable has organically grown to a multi-million dollar consultancy that has solved key Internet objectives for some of the largest companies in the world.

Prior to Extractable, McLaughlin was a technical lead and consultant for USWeb, once the largest Internet professional services firm in the world. It was during this time that McLaughlin saw an opportunity to deliver a better service. This vision was focused on delivering real strategic business value to client engagements and to simply deliver on your promises.

McLaughlin is also a former employee of the Sony Corp., where he focused on research and development. At Sony, he developed some of the first research on how XML would help support Web-based data communications for the company.

McLaughlin earned a Master’s in Information Systems and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from San Diego State University. He speaks at conferences and seminars and is an expert on Web strategy for financial services companies.