David S. Kidder – Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
David is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on online product development and Internet
advertising and marketing. Prior to co-founding Clickable, David co-founded SmartRay
Network, a mobile advertising delivery pioneer. SmartRay’s ad-enabled alerting agents
and data-feed management platform was acquired by LifeMinders. Previously, David
helped lead corporate development at THINK New Ideas, a publicly traded e-business
and interactive advertising firm. He helped grow THINK to more than 500 employees
through seven acquisitions in 24 months. Prior to THINK, Kidder founded Net-X, a
Web authoring and Internet advertising services company, acquired by Target Vision.
Kidder is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and was a recipient
of ID Magazine's International Design Award. He is also the creator and co-author
of New York Times bestseller, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale Press.
Munish Gandhi – Co-Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer
Munish has a proven track record developing innovative technology solutions to complex,
data-intensive problems. Before co-founding Clickable, Munish founded Infoveo, an
India-based development company focused on actionable analytics and data warehousing.
Prior to Infoveo, Munish was the Principal Engineer and Architect at
Network Solutions. Munish has been the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of LifeMinders,
CTO of SmartRay which was acquired by LifeMinders for $36 million, and the Principal
Architect and Director of Data Warehousing at CNET Networks. Munish holds three
U.S. patents including one that was acquired by Vignette from CNET to develop its
flagship product enabling high-speed, database-driven Web pages. Munish holds several
degrees, including a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington
with a specialization in data modeling.
Preston Green – Vice-President, Customer Experience
Preston brings a wealth of online advertising and operation management experience
from the ground-level operations to corporate and strategic planning. Prior to Clickable,
Preston led the team at Microsoft’s adCenter dedicated to improving ad quality and
customer experience for some of the world’s largest advertisers, including eBay,
Amazon and many others. Previously, Preston spent ten years at America Online, Inc.
establishing several operations groups within AOL Europe and AOL Latin America.
Preston also was Director for AOL Interactive Marketing where he led both the advertising
operations team and the establishment of a project management office to support
AOL’s early and rapid growth. At AOL, he also was integral during the initial merging
of the AOL and Time Warner, Inc. advertising groups. Preston holds Bachelor’s degree
from Brigham Young University.
Michael Ingson – Vice-President, Engineering
Michael is a seasoned and award-winning development executive specializing in the
development of large-scale systems. Before joining the Clickable team, Michael managed
the implementation of several large-scale e-commerce systems and integrations, including
leading delivery of high-volume, dynamic merchandizing platforms and product recommendation
engines at Network Solutions. Previously, Michael was a founding partner and VP
of Engineering at Scientia Technologies. Competing against industry heavyweights
like Microsoft and Philips, Michael was awarded two CES Best of Innovation awards.
Before founding Scientia Technologies, Michael managed AMS Service’s development
team producing a software as a service application for the insurance industry. Michael
also served as Product Manager for GTE Vantages Solutions, delivering the first
PC-based video teleconference system to the industry. Michael is a graduate of Penn
State University with a degree in electrical engineering.
Max Kalehoff – Vice-President, Marketing
Max is a renowned expert, evangelist and student of interactive marketing, with
an extraordinary track record of defining and building the reputations of early-stage
companies. Prior to joining Clickable, Max spent over three years at Nielsen BuzzMetrics
, most recently as Vice President of Marketing, where he helped grow the business
from a startup into the global measurement standard in online consumer-generated
media. Prior to Nielsen, he helped develop some of the most influential brands in
Web analytics, including comScore Media Metrix and Hitwise. He frequently lectures
to industry organizations and educational groups, such as the Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Association, the Advertising Research Foundation, The Marketing Sciences Institute,
ad:tech, OMMA and Columbia University. He pens a widely-read blog about marketing,
media and life called AttentionMax.com and authors a weekly column in MediaPost.
Max holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School.
Vernon Steward – Vice-President, Product Management
Vernon brings deep knowledge of online product management and marketing strategy
as well as extensive business development experience to his role at Clickable. Most
recently Vernon served as Director of Product Management at MessageLabs (acquired by Symantec), delivering
a consistent and compelling user experience across all internal and external online
product and application interfaces. As VP of Product and Business development at
SmartRay Network, Vernon was responsible for wireless advertising solutions, a role
that built on his previous experience as Director of Interactive Marketing at DirectWeb
and Product Manager for CS Technology. As Director of Business Development at THINK
New Ideas, Vernon led teams that won and developed innovative Website and online
advertising solutions for key accounts including Gillette, IBM, Oracle, Logitech,
SGI, VF Corp. and Time Inc. As Online Marketing Executive at Times Mirror Interactive,
he helped pioneer ways to monetize print publications as first-generation Web and
AOL sites. Vernon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cape Town,
South Africa, and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Jonathan Betz - Senior Director, Engineering
Jonathan joins Clickable with nearly 10 years of experience in enterprise Web application
development, with a focus on machine learning, data mining, and natural language
processing. Prior to joining Clickable, Jonathan was an engineering manager at Google,
where he led teams that developed features including AdWords Report Center, AdWords
Change History, and Google Ad Manager. Jonathan also launched the "Google Q&A" feature,
which addresses fact-seeking Web search queries with direct responses. In the course
of developing that product, he filed or co-filed 18 patents related to extracting
information from semi-structured text on the Web. Previously, Jonathan was the Engineering
Manager for Analytic Query Services at Epiphany, where he directed development of
the analytic core for the industry-leading E.6 marketing automation product. Jonathan
has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter Chun – Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions
Peter comes to Clickable with nearly 10 years of experience delivering Search & Pay for Performance
Marketing solutions for Fortune 500 Internet Retailers. Before joining Clickable, Peter spent over
five years at the LinkShare Corporation, most recently as Managing Director of Search Marketing,
where he played a critical role in the growth and development of LinkShare’s Search Advantage
solution. He was a recipient of multiple performance awards for driving internal and external
solutions to the overall success of the company. Prior to LinkShare, Peter held a variety of
roles at Sirius Satellite Radio, Kozmo.com and other startups. He has spoken at eTail, Affiliate
Summit, and various other industry events. He is a Qualified Google AdWords Professional, Certified
Yahoo! Ambassador and a GLG Scholar. Peter received his BBA in Marketing from the George Washington University.
Maxine Friedman – Senior Director, Business Development
Maxine has over 11 years of strategic marketing and business development experience
for leading start-up and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Clickable, Maxine held
the positions of Vice President of Media and Marketing at BrandIntel, where she
led business development and marketing, including re-launch of the brand. During
her five-year tenure as Managing Director at CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), she led branding
and communications for the 2500–person Global Corporate Services organization. Maxine
began her career at Cunningham Communication (now Citigate), leading client engagements
with Charles Schwab, Oracle and Motorola. She is one of the founding members of
Lead21, a political action organization for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Maxine
holds a B.S. in journalism from California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly),
and an MBA from both Columbia University and London Business School.
Albert Hogan – Senior Director, Product Integration
Albert has 12 years of experience building, producing, and developing Internet-based
applications and technologies. Prior to Clickable, Albert worked at Booz Allen Hamilton
as the lead enterprise architect, Web-enabling and automating systems for the U.S.
Food & Drug Administration. There he managed a multi-functional team that developed
an electronic submission program to expedite the review over 200 medical products
annually. Previously, Albert served as the Director of Partner Solutions at SmartRay
Network, responsible for identifying, managing and integrating content and advertising
providers to deliver targeted wireless content via the SmartRay platform. At THINK
New Ideas, Albert developed online strategies and Internet applications for clients
including Procter & Gamble, Berlitz, NFL Players Association, and Silicon Graphics.
Previously, Albert developed the first online coupon and advertising program for
Time Warner’s first online presence, Patherfinder.com. Mr. Hogan earned his Bachelor’s
degree at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a
Master’s degree in Information Systems at Johns Hopkins University.
Keith Hong - Senior Director, Assist
Keith joins Clickable with over 7 years of online advertising
experience, with a focus on account, vertical and yield/network
management. Prior to Clickable, Keith led the account management
group for Ask.com. He was able to double the size of the account
management group by efficiently growing SMB advertiser ad spend. In
his most recent role at Ask.com, Keith led the vertical and network
management groups, providing Ask.com advertisers with the best
possible performance by increasing the average value of a click.
Emphasis was placed on network composition, accurately pricing the
value of the network for advertisers, product integration, and
vertical packages to facilitate competition. Keith received a BA in
Philosophy and Economics from Binghamton University.
Bill Masterson - Senior Director, Sales
Bill joins Clickable with over a decade of experience in direct sales, partner development
and account management. Before joining Clickable, Bill oversaw direct sales for
Google's Commerce and Analytics team. He was responsible for forging strategic partnerships
with key customers including Nike, Proctor & Gamble, 20th Century Fox, IAC and Conde
Nast. Prior to Google, he was a Sales Manager at Advertising.com and Account Development
Director at Jupiter Media Metrix (now comScore Media Metrix), where he was the recipient
of multiple sales awards for his work with several of the company's marquee clients.
Bill began his career as an Analyst for ACNielsen, servicing Kraft, Gillette and
Colgate-Palmolive. He is a graduate of Providence College with a degree in Marketing.
Sandeep Sahi - Senior Director, Engineering
Sandeep comes to clickable with extensive software development and management experience,
bringing expertise in the Internet, security and distributed technologies. He’s
held management and technical roles in large companies like Microsoft and Aditi,
and start-ups like Talisma and eLiveBooks. Prior to Clickable, Sandeep worked at
Microsoft on a variety of products including Biztalk Server and Distributed Application
Server; he was responsible for services design and architecture. He has a Bachelor
of Technology degree, with Honors in Electrical Engineering, from Kurukshetra University,
India.
Sandeep sahi is expertise in the forced/constructive resignation of innocent employees when sandeep fails to manage the competent loyal employees forcing SIR SIR SIR culture instead of previous respectfull equal opportunity US culture. Sandeep's selfish, political mismanagement in india office is criminal act against employee rights. Sandeep's failure result into termination of innocent employees to secure his job. For example given below, as after this sandeep also thrown away almost all the loyal old employees to fulfill his personal target on the behalf of company goal. US Management or Persons supporting and keeping silence on sandeep's such illegal act is also doing crime. This is next techie slap on sandeep and his spoon team members growing under him by pushing out other deserving employees.
STUPID MANAGEMENT AND DUMP TOP MANAGEMENT(ANDHER NAGRI CHOPAT RAJA)
Hi All,
While I was shocked at the event and took me some time to come to realities. Feelings were from revenge to forgiveness. But then in interest of everyone, I decided to share certain facts which would help you making a quick decision in terms of your career or may be management wakes up and start treating employees like human. We had an excellent team in clickable we somehow made sure to hurt or lay off good people most of the time and make a team of deaf people who either butter the management or keep a close eye on it.
To summerise problem in India is wrong management at this time there should be someone who is qualified enough that he does not feel insecure about good people and try to put them down. In fact I have heard the negative connotation in interviews as well, some of the top end people have been rejected by a complete negative approach as in guy is good but there is this problem.... Every one knows when in dont dont hire. I mean if people from IIT CS being rejected in interviews, hats off to the interviewer. I could say if I put Kundan is our best guy and rate him 7.5/10 ( Sandeep 3.5/10 - Failure), those people would be 9.1/10. It is crime that such people take interview and even make decision.
I would take some cases as example, I know or heard of from of well networked colleagues.
Me – I was given program manager responsibility but with a trick I never got an official confirmation or letter of that intent. During the interaction I was told, I am doing excellent and suddenly one fine day I found me laid out in a harsh and disrespectful ( which is actually an understatement I was not even provided with the time to collect my personal data and at one point of time was told just get out) way. Though I am much better off today with a offer from E&Y in a gulf country and excellent package.
Nabendu – He was an excellent programmer, they brought him with a promise to make a team lead and made a programmer. He was not on a very enthusiastic mode still he delivered an excellent demo and moment he delivered the code, he was asked to leave. Like there was a kind of cheating racket waiting. Within two days, he got an excellent offer with one of the biggies at much higher position.
Apar – He was a High IQ and hard working guy. In last few days Sundeep came and behaved rudely and he felt it was kind of humiliation and such people does not like to work in such environment and he left the job. That is despite he actually prepared Sandeep Sahi for clickable interview in terms of how to deal with CTO and CEO.
Sachin – Again a high IQ case, where start ups go all out to impress such people, here mediocre management felt insecure and misbehaved and created a situation where he was laid off. A victim of humiliation again specially when someone knows guys in front is inferior no one takes it.
Ritu – Like lot of us I too believe she was a better manager than Sandeep . And team could have worked much better if she was head and Sandeep was playing a technical role. She was always confused what is her role and took every role whatever was told peacefully. And again she was lay off victim, primarily because she sent the reports which other people sent further with their name on it. Anyways she has joined a start up as Product head with almost triple the package.
Vijay – An excellent techie, which was again a victim of system. As other people were stealing the credit of the work and he was working for a package which was half of the non performing people and may be 1/5 of non performing manager. He lived for the organisation but he was again being humiliated at time to time and he lost complete enthusiasm to work at all. I am happy that he is heading a product somewhere where he can create the similar product but may be robust one where he will get credit for it.
Somehow I don't know what is solution of such stupid management. At times you feel like killing them, specially the insecure people who somehow by stroke of luck are at the top and do not let other good people come in the system and do politics against the ones who are already in, if they do not butter them. Or get an X-girl friend as HR and promote her sister as second in command for him, even after the Tech Lead ( Vijay) rejected her the same day she was put in his group as she is not technically capable. Or you want an organisation , where people can just speak by stealing credit of other peoples work. But I feel employees should have the power to oust the whole management in such case and their honour should be respected by all.
Regards,
Deepak Kumar
Ben Seslija - Senior Director, Acquisition and Analytics
Ben has over 12 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative research designs,
advanced statistical methods, and traditional and interactive marketing. He is recognized
for his ability to quickly understand the unique needs of clients and explain complex
statistical findings in business-focused language. Before joining Clickable, Ben
served as a Director of Analytics at Leapfrog Online, where he led a team of analysts
and developed profitable customer acquisition strategies for Fortune 500 clients
across various industries. Previously, Ben led a team of analysts at the University
of Illinois, where he lectured courses on Data Analysis and Comparative Politics.
Ben holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Missouri State University
and a Masters degree in Social Science from the University of Illinois.
Hass Murphy - Director, Product User Experience
Hass is an information architect with vast experience in both Internet and software
development. A proponent of User Centered Design methodologies, Hass formerly was
the Director of Information Architecture at HNW, an interactive marketing agency
in the financial services sector. Previously, Hass was the Director of Design and
the lead information architect for NYU Online, where he developed an enterprise-level
courseware for e-Learning. Prior to NYU Online, Hass was Director of Design and
Production for the Bertelsmann’s Doubleday Interactive, where he led front-end development
of multiple e-commerce sites. Hass also has consulted to numerous large brands and
advertisers, including Pfizer, Prodigy, Bell Atlantic, Oracle, McGraw Hill, McCann
Erickson, Pitney Bowes and Merkley & Partners, Neutrogena, and Tribal DDB. Hass
holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Irvin S. Chanin School of Architecture,
Cooper Union.
Ken Yarmosh - Director, Search Technology
Ken joins Clickable from full-service Web agency Viget Labs, where he defined and
grew an online marketing group that serviced local and national brands across a
variety of industries. He also secured two Google agency certifications, including
Google Analytics Authorized Consultant and Google AdWords Qualified Company. Originally
from Long Island, Yarmosh now resides just outside Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A.
in Computer Science from Boston College and a M.S.E. in Telecommunications and Networking
from the University of Pennsylvania.