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Adam Flomenbaum
Leads the midwest account strategy team at Outbrain, advising the region's largest brands, agencies, and publishers on their content marketing initiatives. Prior to Outbrain, Flomenbaum was part of the social media team at The New Yorker and later joined Conde Nast's consumer marketing division.
Adam Thompson
Adam Thompson has spent the last 15 years helping businesses use digital technologies to achieve their goals and better serve their customers. He is currently SEO Manager at The SSL Store, a cybersecurity company headquartered in sunny St Petersburg, Florida. In his spare time, you're likely to find him biking, fishing, traveling, or playing with the latest technology that caught his eye.
Addi Regev
Addi Regev is Director of Product at Varo Money Inc, a former Outbrain's director of product.
Aden Keem
Aden is a freelancer and writer for Daily Infographic, the award-winning infographic site featuring infographic designs and data visualizations to help you learn something new everyday.
Adi (Yehuda) Faians
Adi is Marketing Technologies Project Manager at Outbrain, with a track record of designing and implementing various information systems across different verticals. She is an enthusiastic CrossFitter, who would rather flip tires than go to lunch.
Alexander Erlmeier
Alexander Erlmeier is Managing Director Central Europe of Outbrain, based in Munich. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and has 20 years of professional experience in online and digital businesses. He founded several startups and worked for the internationally leading companies AOL and Mail.ru. Alex is a sought-after partner for publishers and brands who want to focus more strategically on content marketing and native advertising. When Alex isn't speaking at conferences or establishing a company, you will find him skiing, mountain biking, or capturing his travels with his old analog Leica camera.
Audrey Ference
Audrey Ference works with Outbrain's headline writing team. Her work has also appeared in Slate, Salon, the Hairpin, the Billfold, the Toast, Teen Vogue, and others.
Anthony Hearne
Anthony (Ant) Hearne leads the Global Sales Marketing efforts at Outbrain from its U.S. headquarters in New York. An experienced member of Outbrain’s Executive team he joined the Content Discovery leader as the Regional Director, SEA, India & New Markets in 2012 and was responsible for setting the business on a strong path to growth and founding its territories across Asia. Now part of the global marketing team he is responsible for expanding the company’s global sales marketing efforts and ensuring that a consistent and impactful story is delivered across all customer touch points.
Asaf Hochman
Senior Director of Product Marketing, he focuses on Outbrain Amplify and works with brands and agencies to do better marketing. Previously, Asaf was a digital strategist at ad agencies Grey, TBWA, and Publicis, and also spent time on the client-side at Red Bull and General Mills.
Aljaz Fajmut
Aljaz Fajmut is an internet entrepreneur and founder of ExitMist and Nightwatch — a search visibility tool of the next generation.
Amit Lavi
Amit is the CEO and Co-founder of Marketing Envy, a startup focused marketing agency based in Tel Aviv. He mentors at Google Campus and the Microsoft Accelerator, is a Facebook and Google Alumni, and part of the Google Experts Network.
Andrew Tasker
Client Partner at Outbrain, helping B2B marketers educate and engage relevant audiences across Outbrain's Premium Publisher Network.
Andy Crestodina
Andy Crestodina is a co-founder and the Strategic Director of Orbit Media, an award-winning 38-person web design company in Chicago. Over the past 15 years, Andy has provided web strategy and advice to more than a thousand businesses. As a top-rated speaker at national conferences and as a writer for many of the biggest blogs, Andy has dedicated himself to the teaching of marketing. Andy has written hundreds of articles, many of which have been published on the top marketing blogs and media websites. Favorite topics include content strategy, search engine optimization, social media and Analytics. Andy has been highlighted as Forbes' Top 10 Online Marketing Experts to Watch in 2015, Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 50 Marketing Influencer in 2016, is a mentor at 1871, the #1 incubator in the US, and an adjunct professor of Digital Marketing at Loyola University. He is also the author of Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing.
Ayal
Eyal is the general manager of Australia and New Zealand of Outbrain, the leading content discovery platform.
Bryan Hernandez
Bryan Hernandez is a Client Partner at Outbrain with over 5 years of experience working with performance marketers. Prior to Outbrain, Bryan was at AdRoll where he was helping brands develop retargeting strategies. Bryan is passionate about digital marketing, building relationships and whipping up ice cream on warm NYC days.
Cate Battey
Cate started her career at Outbrain three years ago as a Sales Planner before joining the Account Management team in October, where she supports all Midwest agency business out of the small and mighty Chicago office. When she's not with the Outbrain crew, you can find her biking around Chicago or hitting the high note at Sunday night karaoke.
Colin Doody
Colin DoodyはOutbrainのGM戦略的イニシアチブです。 Colinは、当社の革新チームに就いて、新製品の特定と開発を行っています。
Christoph Kruse
Christoph Kruse is Marketing Manager DACH at Outbrain and responsible for all marketing activities in the German-speaking countries. Previously, he worked as an account manager for the communications agencies Edelman and HBI. In his spare time, Christoph enjoys going to concerts and doing all sorts of sports, preferably in the countryside near Munich.
Claire Maikowski
Claire is an HR Business Partner on the Outbrain team, and spends most of her time recruiting and finding creative ways to make sure our current employees are happy and engaged.
Catie Maillard
Catie is on the Americas HR team at Outbrain, where she focuses on bringing in new folks and helping Outbrainers grow. Prior to joining Outbrain, Catie focused on practical research in the work/life field, as well as generalist HR throughout the tech scene. She holds a MSW in policy & program development and is here to give a sneak peek as to what it's like to work at Outbrain.
Christo Papadopoulos
Christo Papadopoulos is a Senior Customer Success Manager for Outbrain Amplify. He is responsible for ensuring that thousands of marketers across a variety of verticals are able to successfully create and manage ROI positive content strategies at scale, while also supporting internal teams, and the creation of internal processes.
David Basulto
David Basulto is the founder of iOgrapher and author of Life. Camera. Action. Basulto became a first-time entrepreneur at the age of fifty-one, and he now spends his time helping individuals to create Hollywood-quality films on mobile devices, developing new products, and spending time with his wife and nine-year-old son.
Daphna Michaeli
Currently helping to grow and scale Outbrain's international teams. My focus has been on recruiting, employee development, training, and ensuring that Outbrain continues to be an irresistible organization.
Dan Solomon
Dan is a Strategic Partner Director at Outbrain focusing on premium publishers and video supply. He is a big fan of CTV and currently looking for the next series to binge.
Dennis Yuscavitch
Dennis Yuscavitch has spent the last several years creating and launching new product, most recently with Outbrain as Director of Product Marketing.
Ehud Basis
Ehud is a Senior Online Acquisition Manager at Outbrain. He previously led the PPC teams at Conduit and eTeacher, using his breadth of knowledge to analyze and optimize performance to achieve company goals. Ehud lives in Israel with his wife and 3-year-old son. He loves following the NBA.
Evelina Jarbin
Evelina is Head of Account Management Amplify at Outbrain London. Working in Digital Marketing for the past 5 years, she's dipped her toes in everything from creative production and website creation to government projects. Currently really enjoying the growing importance of data and analytics in any field within marketing and everything that comes with it. Originally from Sweden, but have adapted fairly well to life in the UK. Still missing good filter coffee, though.
Fabien Schwartz
Fabien Schwartz is the Co-Founder and Director of Schwartz Consulting, a business growth catalyst acting through scalable digital marketing models. Fabien was the Team Lead of the Performance Marketing Pod at Outbrain France, helping marketers to build scalable ROI Content Discovery acquisition. He’s developed strong methodologies and now works in partnership with Google and Facebook Advertising experts, offering a 360° solution in Paid Digital Marketing.
Faye Liddle
Faye Liddle is Head of Agency Sales at Outbrain, living in London. She is captaining Outbrain's team for the Advertising Softball Team this summer and looking forward to joining some her peers at the MSF Fun Run in Regent's Park in April.
Flora Rhim
Flora is a product marketer at Outbrain and previously spent time launching products at publishers and tech platforms. She's always looking for her next book to read, recommendations welcome.
Grace Berry
Grace Berry supports the Engage Marketing team. Outside of work, she is always on the go, running in the park or escaping the city for a long weekend.
Galit Gablinger
Galit Gablinger is heading the account management team in Israel. Galit joined Outbrain in May 2012 as part of the Amplify Team in the phase of building the Israeli market. Her focus is data-driven analysis and optimization of client activity. Prior to joining Outbrain Galit worked at shopping.com (acquired by eBay) as an analyst for the catalogue team. In her free time Galit likes traveling and hiking.
Gilad de Vries
Senior Vice President of Strategy, who previously led the brands and agencies team at Outbrain. Gilad brings more than 19 years of experience in the digital media and technology fields. Before joining Outbrain, Gilad was VP of Digital Media and Principal at Carmel Ventures, one of Israel's top-tier venture capital firms, where he was highly engaged in Carmel's investments in digital media, Internet and mobile startups. Before Carmel, Gilad was a Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management at Comverse Technology, a leading provider of value-added services for Telco Providers. Gilad holds a B.A. in economics and business management from Bar-Ilan University and a Global MBA cum laude from the IDC Herzelia. Gilad is also a first lieutenant (reserve) in the Israeli Army’s technology unit (Mamram).
Gil Ditkovski
Gil Ditkovski is Head of OPA (Outbrain Programmatic Access). He leads the company's global efforts in driving programmatic access across the Outbrain network.
Gil Lederer
Director of Business Development, Outbrain Israel. With over 15 years experience in digital marketing and content.
Gemma Isaacs
Gemma is Senior Manager on the Brands & Agencies team for Outbrain UK and heads up Outbrain's PR efforts in the UK. Gemma has a passion for start-ups, content marketing and looking at future trends. She illustrates enthusiasm and positivity in all aspects of business, helping to gain the trust of clients and become an integral part of their digital content strategies.
Gulshan Verma
Gulshan is the General Manager, SEA & India at Outbrain and is based out the Outbrain's office in Singapore.
Harel Amir
Harel heads up Outbrain's Extended Network. He is an industry specialist with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, data, operations, management, and online advertising. He was previously responsible for revenue strategy and growth at myThings, leading the company's global ad-operations organization, including account services, business intelligence, and professional services in 10 countries.
Idan Vakrat
Idan Vakrat is a product manager at Outbrain on the Amplify team. He joined Outbrain with a vast experience in product management from an enterprise software solutions and Fin-Tech startup. Idan also holds a Physics degree from the Technion and MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Ioana Sima
Ioana is the CMO of DigitalWebProperties. She oversees link-building, social media, and on-page SEO efforts for the company's clients. Despite the fact that her academic background is completely unrelated to her position within the company, she has decided to pursue a career in digital marketing. Her dream is to, one day, be in charge of marketing efforts of a major architecture studio or online publication.
Jennifer Bassett
Jennifer is Outbrain's former Managing Editor. She has 10+ years of experience in the content strategy and editorial space. She began her career as a book editor and has consulted for top agencies, non-profits, and media companies including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Havas Worldwide New York, and Interbrand. When she's not talking content, she's playing music with her bands The Missing Footage and The Living Kills. You can read more of her writing at jennifer-bassett.com.
Joe James
Joe works for Outbrain down-under, as a Strategic Partnerships Director. He has worked in ad-land for the last 9+ years across OOH, TV, print, and more recently digital. When he is not talking about Outbrain and the benefits of Discovery he is either taking photos, watching movies or playing sport.
John LoGioco
John is Executive Vice President and member of the founding team at Outbrain. John leads strategic initiatives and partnerships in the messaging space and Outbrain For Chat. Prior John led the acquisition of Visual Revenue and founded the Outbrain business development and sales teams from pre-revenue to $100MM. Prior to joining Outbrain, John held sales and management positions with Time Inc. and Reuters in New York, Los Angeles and South Florida. John started his career in the media department of ad agency, Ammirati & Puris in New York. An honors graduate from the University of Colorado, John resides in New Jersey with his family.
Jonathan Long
Jonathan Long is the founder of Market Domination Media®, a performance-based online marketing agency, blerrp™, an influencer marketing agency and co-founder of consumer brand Sexy Smile Kit™.
Joshua keller
Joshua Keller is a managing partner and director of Global Agora, a venture capital fund with locations in New York City, Miami, Austin, and Los Angeles. He founded Union Square Media, a full-service digital marketing agency, in 2008. In 2018, he launched Maximus, a proprietary ad-buying platform that combines automation and customizable control for an optimized ad buying experience. Prior to founding Union Square Media, Mr. Keller focused on business development at various digital advertising agencies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in music industry studies from Ithaca College.
Keith Pepper
Keith Pepper is the Country Manager, North America at Outbrain. He’s based in New York City.
Kim Rau
Kim is part of the Customer Onboarding team, based in our NYC office. Her interests include bungee jumping, cage diving with Great Whites and helping new marketers start their Outbrain journey off on the right foot.
Kriti Jetley
Kriti manages Brands and Campaigns at Outbrain South East Asia & India. Prior to Outbrain, she spent most of her time working with global brands and helping them carve out their content journey. Based in Singapore, she has been working in the content space for the past 5 years.
Lior Charka
Lior is a Product Manager at Outbrain Amplify. He's just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit. He took the midnight train going anywhere. One day, he will have the man-cave he always dreamt of.
Laura Kloot
Laura is a seasoned content and marketing writer, with over 10 years' experience writing for Israeli and multinational companies operating all over the world. From the Dead Sea to the diamond exchange, Laura produces content that covers a kaleidoscope of subject matter. Now, she's devoting her time to digging deep into every aspect of performance marketing, writing all kinds of Outbrainy content, while raising three kids, a cat, and running her own writing business.
Lauren Pica
As the brains (and voice) behind the Outbrain brand communications (and our Director of Marketing Communications!), Lauren spends her days of marketing scrappiness doing everything in her power to gain and retain happy customers.
Maor Kaplanski
Maor is a CEO at eBrand -Online Reputation Management Agency since 2008. Previously worked as a journalist & editor at Ma'ariv. He has a BA degree in Management & Communication.
Mark Spera
Mark was the founder of, BeGood an ecommerce platform, where he led acquisition marketing. His writing and thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, SF Chronicle, The Guardian, and Reason Magazine. Mark was the first marketing hire at GC, Menlo and Union Square Venture-backed RealtyShares. He runs a marketing team of 6 today.
Martina Burton
Martina likes to keep content fresh, fun and most importantly, profitable. Her knack for placing herself in the customer's shoes allows her to educate marketers on the best practices of Outbrain. Aside from putting marketing dollars to use, Martina ghostwrites for small business blogs, literary journals, and independent publishers.
Matt Crenshaw
Matt Crenshaw is the vice president of product marketing at Outbrain. He is responsible for setting the product vision and delivering solutions for publishers and brands that build audience relationships and grow revenue. Reach him @mcrenshawATL.
Michelle Caruthers
Michelle Caruthers is the Email Marketing Manager at Outbrain. After a several years of feeling out the general marketing space, she developed a fiery passion for turning the tables and creating emails that people actually want to read. When she isn't busy testing catchy subject lines, you can find her Yelping the nearest Starbucks and Snapchatting other people's dogs in Central Park.
Michael Le Lausque
Michael Le Lausque a rejoint l’équipe Marketing Europe d’Outbrain en 2015 au sein de laquelle il occupe le poste de Marketing Manager pour l'Europe du Sud. Spécialisé dans la création de contenu et la communication sous toutes ses formes, Michael a notamment occupé les fonctions de concepteur-rédacteur en agences éditoriales, avant de rejoindre les équipes marketing de Getty Images où il a passé 2,5 ans. Michael a également travaillé en tant que consultant indépendant en création de contenus et en stratégies éditoriales.
Mike Mathis
Mike is a User Experience Designer at Outbrain. Prior employers include JPMorgan Chase, Yahoo, and a Newsday route with his brother.
Matthew Opatrny
Matt is an Account Coordinator on Outbrain Amplify from the San Francisco office. He always keeps his eyes peeled for good pieces to read and engaging videos to watch. Outside the office, he spends his time on the yoga mat, eating good food, traveling, and hiking.
Matt Palmaccio
Matt Palmaccio is Sales Marketing Director at Outbrain, based in New York. Matt joined Outbrain in July 2015, having previously held marketing roles at both Conde Nast and Hearst. In his free time, Matt enjoys exploring the city but also loves weekend escapes to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.
Michael Quoc
Michael Quoc is the founder and CEO of Dealspotr, an open social platform connecting up-and-coming brands with lifestyle influencers to run sponsored campaigns, and giving trend-seeking shoppers access to today’s best deals. Previously, Michael was the Director of Product Management for Yahoo's media lab. There, he spearheaded the launch of several innovative services in the live video and mobile social networking areas. Michael has been awarded nine patents relating to mobile and social network applications and technology. Follow him on Twitter at @michaelquoc.
Mark Simon
Mark Simon is the co-founder of Brax.io where he helps performance marketers scale, automate and simplify native advertising. Previously he helped e-commerce and software companies acquire customers through organic & paid search. He loves data visualization, nutrition and everything outdoors which is his excuse for taking his kids on crazy adventures. You can follow him on Twitter @mesimoniv.
Nir Elharar
Nir is heading the online Customer Acquisition for Outbrain. He was previously the Head of Media Department at GO Internet Marketing specializing in performance marketing. Prior to that, he worked at Google Dublin as an Account Manager for eCommerce B2B and Healthcare clients. Nir lives in Israel with his wife and 2 daughters.
Nate Lozier
Nate is a content development specialist focusing in video. He has five years experience in digital marketing and, along with the rest of the Outbrain team, is here to inspire marketers to produce great, engaging content for their own customers. Nate previously worked as an electrical engineer and loves using data to tell stories wherever possible.
Nels Gilbertson-Urtel
Nels Gilbertson-Urtel is the Content Marketing Manager at Brandpoint.com, a Minneapolis-based content marketing services agency. He enjoys writing, collaborating with his coworkers and being a new dad to a six-month old drool factory name Charles.
Osnat Rabi
Osnat is a Product Manager at Outbrain Amplify. Born and raised in a small village in Israel, she would always prefer the countryside over the city. She's training daily for the next triathlon, to keep healthy in body and spirit, but will never eat a tomato or cucumber.
Roy Ben Ezra
Roy is the Head of Inside Sales at Outbrain, based in our NYC office. Prior to his current role, Roy established and managed Outbrain`s Client Onboarding and Content Review teams. He is passionate about technology, digital marketing and driving success to Outbrain Amplify`s customers.
Ronny Lempel
Ronny Lempel joined Outbrain in May 2014 as VP of Outbrain's Recommendations Group, where he oversees the computation and delivery of the company's organic and paid recommendations, as well as the auction mechanisms that run in the paid recommendations' marketplace. Prior to joining Outbrain, Ronny spent 6.5 years as a Senior Director at Yahoo Labs. Ronny joined Yahoo in October 2007 to open and establish its Research Lab in Haifa, Israel. During his tenure at Yahoo, Ronny led R&D activities in diverse areas, including Web Search, Web Page Optimization, Recommender Systems and Ad Targeting. In January 2013 Ronny was appointed Yahoo Labs’ Chief Data Scientist in addition to his managerial duties. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ronny spent 4.5 years at IBM's Haifa Research Lab with the Information Retrieval Group, where his duties included research and development in the area of enterprise search systems. During his tenure at IBM, Ronny managed the Information Retrieval Group for two years. Ronny received his PhD, which focused on search engine technology, from the Faculty of Computer Science at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in early 2003. During his PhD studies, Ronny spent two summer internships at the AltaVista search engine. Ronny has authored over 40 research papers in leading conferences and journals, and holds 17 granted US patents. He regularly serves on program and organization committees of Web-focused conferences, and has taught advanced courses on Search Engine Technologies and Big Data Technologies at Technion.
Ran Locar
Ran is a Senior Data Scientist at Outbrain, mining data and applying machine learning to terabyte sized datasets, to optimize Outbrain's recommendations. Ran has over 20 years of software development, troubleshooting, reverse engineering, data analysis, and data science experience. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Tel-Aviv University, and is a frequent participant in Data Science competitions. Prior to joining Outbrain, Ran was a Big Data Engineer at Amdocs, building predictive analytics solutions for leading telecommunications providers.
Ram Meshulam
Ram leads the Organic recommendations team. He is responsible for serving recommendations that are engaging for the user but also helping the publishers to meet their goals. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and 8 years of experience in the art and science of industry-level recommender systems.
Roy Sasson
Roy Sasson is Outbrain’s Chief Data Scientist. His team applies predictive modeling and machine learning research that optimize Outbrain's recommendation system, in strategic areas such as CTR prediction, user classification and mechanism design. Roy has a PhD in Applied Econometrics from Tel-Aviv University, where he has been teaching Econometrics since 2008.
Sabrina Bailey Navalon
Originally from Montreal, Sabrina graduated from McGill University with a degree in Marketing and Finance. Speaking 3 languages fluently (English, French, Spanish and a bit of German) and having spent several years working in the luxury tourism industry, Sabrina has developed a keen understanding of various cultures, which has helped her develop international markets. In her previous roles, she has had the chance to travel extensively and implement/adapt sales and marketing strategies in a way that fit that particular market, whether it be in the Far east, Middle East, USA or Latin America.
Kim Stiglitz
Kim Stiglitz Courvoisier is the content marketing queen at Campaign Monitor. She writes for the Campaign Monitor blog and a number of other publications. She focuses on all things marketing, content and social and loves a good pun.
Sophie Melnik Amitay
Sophie is the head of marketing APAC & EEMEA at Outbrain. She is a Global Brand Strategist, Co-Founder, and Entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience with a measurable track record of creating successful online and offline strategic branding concepts, product lines and events, each time finding the brand story that inspires action and create a strategy to meet ambitious new growth goals. She shares a passion for innovation, a curious mind, and expertise in defining business initiatives and plans, adapting to a changing business and technological landscape.
Sarit Anavim
Sarit Anavim is Senior Marketing Technologies Manager at Outbrain. She is responsible for identifying technological needs for the Marketing team by finding and implementing solutions to optimize processes. Originally a software developer, Sarit previously worked at 888 and Conduit across marketing technologies, retention, email marketing and data analysis. Aside from time spent swapping the best of the worst pop songs with her global team, Sarit's first love is baking which allows her to combine her passions for food, measurement and creating things. Sarit currently resides in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sandeep Balani
Sandeep is Director Business Development, looking after our Indian publishers at Outbrain. He is responsible for growing Outbrain's publisher network in India both on the demand and supply side of the business. As part of his role, he's in responsible for delivering right solutions and strategy for publishers to enable them to achieve their goals and scale through Outbrain.
Stav Mishory
Stav Mishory is a product manager at Outbrain on the Amplify team. She joined Outbrain with a vast experience in product management from the gaming industry and a leading online marketing company. currently spending her time on a ski slope in Europe.
Sophie Miller
Sophie is part of Outbrain's International HR Team. She is based in London but looks after all of our European teams - she has a passion for employee engagement and development. In her spare time, Sophie runs endless miles - one day she hopes to have competed a marathon on all 7 continents!
Sapir Segal
Sapir is the Content Marketing Manager at Oktopost and is passionate about writing, design and anything creative. She grew up in Australia, loves to travel and enjoys painting in her spare time.
Stephen Tracy
Stephen is an award winning analytics and research practitioner, analytics evangelist, blogger, teacher, and all around designer of things made with data. He is currently the Data & Insights Lead, Southeast Asia at SapientNitro, based in Singapore. In his spare time Stephen also blogs on topics related to analytics, storytelling and data visualization at analythical.com. Overall, he is deeply passionate about analytics and research and believes that the best applications of data-driven thinking are always found at the intersection of art and science.
Susan Tunick Reiter
Susan Tunick Reiter is the founder of ReitersBlock.com, and provides writing, editorial and production services for Outbrain, Gartner, Chief Marketer, Promo, brandchannel.com and others.
Sarah Wiseman
Sarah Wiseman joined Outbrain in 2015 as a Sales Manager in Australia. Before that, she was already helping brands and their media agencies create meaningful connections with their target audiences at various digital publishers. It's still a big passion of hers and now her role takes a strategic lens on how she can help brands overcome their business challenges using media. She is also a proud pom who just can't seem to get enough of all Sydney has to offer.
Tom Foran
Tom Foran is Chief Revenue Officer at Outbrain. As CRO, Tom leads all Sales, Business Operations and Client Services globally. Prior to joining Outbrain, Tom was the CRO of Crisp Media, a leading mobile rich media company. As GM of Ad Sales & Operations for Quigo, Tom was instrumental in driving the company's rapid growth (Quigo was acquired by AOL for $340 million in 2007). Tom also worked in business development at NBCi and Yahoo!. Tom graduated summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University and resides in New York City with his wife and 2 daughters.
Veronica Gonzalez
Veronica Gonzalez is Vice President, Global Head of Business and Legal Affairs at Outbrain. She oversees Outbrain's commercial contracts with Outbrain's publisher network and content providers. Previously a law firm associate, Veronica is enjoying the fast-paced yet relaxed atmosphere of a growing technology company. Aside from time exploring restaurants across NYC, Veronica is an obsessive traveler dedicated to seeing every corner of the world. Veronica currently resides in New York, NY.
Victor Pan
Victor Pan is the Head of SEO at HubSpot where he is responsible for growing the company’s organic traffic and international presence. Before joining HubSpot, Victor was a Search Director at Catalyst, a GroupM agency, and an early employee at WordStream. When he is not obsessed with search, he is practicing his swings for kendo, the way of the sword.
Walter Lim
Walter Lim is a social media marketer, brand storyteller, digital geek, and trainer. Founder of Cooler Insights, he loves to help businesses create, nurture and grow winning brands through storytelling, content marketing, social media, and PR.
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Yaron Galai
Yaron is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Outbrain. Prior to founding Outbrain, Yaron was Co-Founder, SVP of Quigo, Inc., a provider of performance-based marketing solutions for advertisers and premium publishers. He previously served as the CEO of the company for three years. Quigo was acquired by AOL in December 2007. Previously, Mr. Galai was Co-Founder & VP Business Development at Ad4ever, a developer of rich-media advertising technologies for the web which was later acquired by Atlas (a division of aQuantive). Earlier, he was the Founder of NetWorks Web Design - an SEO and web design firm. At NetWorks he oversaw the production and search engine optimization of over 30 websites. Mr. Galai studied industrial design at the Holon Technological Institute, and is a Major (reserve) officer in the Israel Navy.
Yuval Ben Itzhak
Yuval is Chief Technology Officer at Outbrain. Yuval comes to Outbrain with more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior technical leader at innovative companies like Finjan, Intel and AVG Technologies. Prior to joining Outbrain in 2015, Yuval served as CTO at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG) for more than 5 years. While there, he established AVG's leading position in the mobile security market, demonstrated by more than 100 million downloads of its mobile products and 200 million active users. Yuval was also a key member of the leadership team that took the company public in 2012. Prior to AVG, Yuval was CTO of the cybersecurity company Finjan, where he led six international groups. Yuval is a graduate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and a holder of 11 U.S. patents. He is a frequent commentator in business news outlets and also speaks regularly on the future of mobile, security, privacy, consumer dynamics, and disruptive innovation.
Yaniv Nava
Yaniv is a PPC Campaign Manager at Outbrain digital marketing team. He previously worked at Google AdWords support team & IBM Digital headquarters in Dublin. When he's not living the PPC world, he loves to surf, play basketball and travel the world.
Yoav Tourel
I joined Outbrain in 2012 as the Head of Account Strategy in Australia & New Zealand. Before that, I was born and bred as a media planner (it is still my passion!) and for more than 13 years I worked in advertising, media and research roles, mostly in the agency land. I now head the marketing effort in ANZ. I'm also a proud father of 3 girls (girls rock!), married to a vet (vets rock!). Oh, and some would say that I look like Andre Agassi and sounds like Borat. Anyway, just call me Joe (or Yoey).
Ziv Avraham
Ziv is a Performance Strategist at Outbrain working with the amplify team in Israel. He previously led a strategy team at McCann Ericson, one of the leading creative agencies worldwide. Ziv has vast experience in planning, monetizing and optimizing campaigns, he works closely with brands and agencies in order to define goals and requirements prior to campaign launch and achieve their goals when the campaigns go live. Ziv lives in Tel-Aviv with his wife and loves outdoor extreme sports like surfing, downhill biking and snowboarding. Ziv holds a BA in Communication and Management.