Richard Harrington, former chief executive of Thomson Corp. and now chairman of venture capital firm Cue Ball , helped Bench produce a business plan and cash-flow projection and acted as a sounding board.
Vice Chairman Marc Lustgarten, 52, leaves father-and-son-team bosses Charles and James Dolan without the sounding board who resolved their sometimes clashing views.
To make sure that he is on top of development with Gen-Y, Cannon created GenBenz, a restricted chat, which he uses as a sort of sounding board for ideas and information.