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Adrien Boespflug
Adrien Boespflug is the Marketing Manager France & Benelux at Outbrain and is responsible for all the marketing activities in this region. Previously, he worked as a Marketing Specialist at the Performance Review Institute: a global authority in the aerospace and medical devices industries. In his spare time, Adrien enjoys composing music and doing all sorts of sports, preferably outdoor and where adrenaline and high intensity are involved such as freeskiing, wakeboarding, longboarding, tennis, cycling, and much more.
Antonella Bucci
Antonella is the Marketing Manager for Italy and Spain. Based in sunny Madrid, she manages all marketing and communication activities for both countries. Prior to Outbrain, Antonella worked for a variety of well-recognized multinational companies in the tech sector. In her free time, you’ll find Antonella on the stage acting with her theater group.
Andrew Burke
Andrew is currently Managing Director, APAC and Growth Markets (India, China, Brazil) at Outbrain. Before joining the company in 2018, he was General Manager of Found Digital, and has a career spanning digital agencies, media, sports, finance and ad-tech.
Alexa Cupo
Alexa, known across the Outbrain team as “Lex” (thanks, Amazon), is an Audience Development-focused Senior Customer Success Manager for Outbrain. Dry humor and homemade Italian food are the only things she loves more than getting her publishers’ content in front of all the right people.
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.
Alex de la Vega
Alex is a Sales Development Representative for Outbrain, with years of experience as a freelance marketing consultant across multiple industries. He is very enthusiastic about speaking with clients, collaborating with his teammates, and perfecting his at-home brunch menu.
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 Chief Revenue Officer at Outbrain, responsible for sustainable growth and product adoption for all international markets across APAC, EMEA, and LATAM. 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.
Andrew Furman
Andrew is Outbrain’s Senior Vice President of Sales, overseeing the North American region. In his current and past roles, Andrew consults brands, agencies, and publishers on how to successfully execute digital content marketing strategies and initiatives. Andrew is based in Chicago with his wife and twin children, and in his free time, is also an avid skier.
Agathe Rakowicz
Agathe joined Outbrain in 2011, as a founding member of the French office where she set up and led the account management function in France and then all of Southern Europe. In 2018, Agathe stepped in as Global Programmatic Director, and in 2020, she started a new role as Director Global Brands Operations to lead sales strategy across Enterprise brand clients.
Avital Gill
Avital is a Campaign Manager on the Digital Marketing team at Outbrain specializing in paid media. She likes practicing TRX, drinking coffee, and listening to 90s music in her spare time. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
Amir Hadadi
Amir is Chief Software Architect at Outbrain. For the past two years, he has headed the Outbrain Backend Guild.
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.
Amnon Lahav
Amnon is VP, Supply Operations & Feed at Outbrain. He is the founder of AdNgin, which was acquired by Outbrain, and founder of Pluralis. With 15 years of experience in digital media and technology, Amnon draws from his strong technical background to lead and grow online businesses from end to end.
Aric Linkins
As an ambassador for the further growth and legitimization of digital content marketing, Aric specializes in helping various publishers exceed their Amplify KPIs as a Senior Customer Success Manager at Outbrain.
Aljaz Fajmut
Aljaz Fajmut is an internet entrepreneur and founder of ExitMist and Nightwatch — a search visibility tool of the next generation.
Aner Mazur
A former Head of Product Management, Outbrain Amplify
Alexandra (Ali) Murphy
Ali began her career at Outbrain four years ago as the only recruiter hiring for our US offices in New York City, Chicago, and West Coast. She now leads the US Talent Acquisition team with a focus on business positions including, but not limited to, sales, account management, marketing, finance, and business intelligence.
Alba Navarro
Alba is Marketing Coordinator at Outbrain's European team. She is a passionate about digital marketing, technologies and traveling. She started her career in the Tourism industry and then changed into the exciting world of content marketing. Based in London, she started working for Outbrain in 2012.
Andrew Tasker
Client Partner at Outbrain, helping B2B marketers educate and engage relevant audiences across Outbrain's Premium Publisher Network.
Andy Cheong
Andy Cheong is the Product Marketing Director at Marketing Evolution. An experienced enterprise solutions leader with 19+ years of experience in software and management consulting industries. Cheong focuses on solution development and growth strategy through innovation and market alignment.
Antonia Faulkner-Dybvig
Antonia is Outbrain's Head of International Marketing.
Anat Oransky
Anat is Outbrain's Director of Marketing for APAC, Japan, and Israel. She's been in love with marketing, data, and everything in-between for over 15 years. In her previous roles, she managed marketing efforts and research at Intel in Silicon Valley. Anat is a super mom of three and a runner.
Ania Rivera
Previously an account strategist at Outbrain, Ania is now a member of the PPC team in the Growth Marketing department. She brings extensive experience and inside knowledge from the point of view of advertisers, helping finetune Outbrain’s communications with our platform’s users. Born in Belorussia, Ania grew up in Ecuador and is a passionate diver.
Alon Roded
With over 10 years of experience in media planning & digital marketing, Alon is Director of Account Management & Performance Strategy in Outbrain for the Middle East, Africa & Russia.
Alicia Roy
Alicia is part of the P&C team and supports Outbrain in their employer brand. With a background in recruitment and content marketing, Alicia is a key partner for the talent team, new hires, and delivery of the Outbrain employee experience.
Adi Shaked
Adi is a PPC Campaign Manager in Outbrain's Growth Marketing team. Using analytic and creative skills, she manages PPC and Paid Media campaigns across a range of digital channels, making sure the right audiences engage with the right content.
Andraz Tori
Andraz is Head of Recommendations and Data Science at Outbrain and responsible for the user experience with our recommendation technology. Before joining Outbrain, he was the co-founder and CTO at Zemanta, which was acquired by Outbrain in 2017.
Ayal Steiner
Ayal is VP - Head of Global Advertising Revenue for Outbrain.
Brandon Bergmark
Brandon Bergmark is the Head of Programmatic Sales in North America for Outbrain. Prior to Outbrain, Brandon held leadership positions at AOL, NBC Universal, and Fox Interactive. Brandon lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife and two children, graduated from UC Santa Barbara, and received his MBA from Saint Mary's College of California.
Becca Chandler
Becca Chandler is a Marketing Content Specialist at ZoomInfo, a leading business information database that helps companies accelerate growth and profitability. Becca writes for ZoomInfo’s B2B blog on topics related to sales, marketing, and recruiting. In her free time, Becca likes to travel and capture special moments with her camera
Ben Hazan
Ben Hazan is a UX & Marketing Designer at Outbrain. Delivering mostly digital experiences and branding campaigns for all the Outbrainers globally, and doing all with a passion and love for this profession. Actually, his profession is his hobby.
Brandon Carter
Brian Gallagher
Brian Gallagher is a Director of Corporate Communications at Outbrain.
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.
Bostjan Spetic
Bostjan is the head of programmatic business development for Outbrain. Currently based in Slovenia, with close ties to New York where he lived for most of the last decade, Bostjan mentors several entrepreneurs, serves on the board of directors of Rock Content, and runs a computer history museum.
Benny Zingerevich
Cate Battey
Cate works on the Customer Success Management team where she supports all Midwest business out of the small and mighty Chicago office. She also leads regional efforts for WE Outbrain, our women's empowerment initiative. 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。
Chinyelu Onuora
Chinyelu Onuora is a Strategist at the Additive Agency (and former Outbrainer!). When she’s not partnering with purpose-driven brands to advance business and social change, you can find her exploring New York City on foot.
Cyrus Jabbari
Cyrus is the Global Content Manager at Outbrain. His stellar writing skills bring clarity and consistency to Outbrain's messaging across the globe. A 'show me the data' kind of guy, he always weaves facts and insights into his pieces. In his free time, you'll find Cyrus playing the greatest songs of all time on the piano.
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.
Claudie Mille
Claudie is Product Marketing Director, based in Paris. She is focused on our Engage core products and helps publishers leverage the power of Outbrain. Prior to this role, Claudie led the Engage Account Management team in France for several years. She is an expert of the Publishing Industry needs & challenges.
Camila Paks
Camila is a Talent Acquisition Partner in the People & Culture department. She is responsible for attracting and hiring the best talent for Outbrain and helps develop our unique culture.
Christo Papadopoulos
As the Director of Business Development for Outbrain Engage, Christo spends his days managing key partner relationships, identifying emerging opportunities and trends in an ever-changing publisher environment. And there's nothing he loves more than puppies, kittens, and burgers, except good content, of course.
Carlie Stazzone
Carlie leads direct and agency relationships under the Dentsu Aegis umbrella as well as the New England territory at Outbrain. Responsible for acquiring and nurturing key relationships with Fortune 500s, she has been with Outbrain for over five years and currently resides in the cozy East Village of Manhattan.
Chris Weare
Other than looking slightly like the Outbrain logo, Chris is the Director of Account Management for Outbrain's new Affiliate Hub focusing on EMEA. With years of experience across multiple digital marketing disciplines, he has now specialized in developing growth strategies for key affiliate partners on native and working with 7-figure budgets.
Daniel Attie
Daniel is a Brazilian lawyer turned marketing enthusiast. Before joining Outbrain as Conversion Optimization Manager in the Growth Marketing team, he worked at a Tel Aviv based e-commerce company. When he is not running, cycling or swimming, Daniel is searching for creative ways to convert more and more users.
Disha Dinesh
Disha Dinesh is a content writer at Godot Media, a leading content creation firm. Her interests include social media and content marketing. If she isn't typing away at her desk, she's foot-tapping to the latest in progressive music.
Diana Ford
Diana Ford is a digital marketing specialist. She's been blogging for several years. Her writing expertise spans across online marketing, SEO, social media, and blogging. Besides, she likes to do outreach marketing, product reviews, and online marketing guides at AssignYourWriter.
Daniel Holm
Daniel has worked at Outbrain for almost 9 years. As Global Head of Enterprise, he is responsible for global brands and agency partnerships as well as the strategic direction and support of the two business units. Daniel has been in the media business for over 15 years and can bring a lot of expertise from the publishing and adtech business.
David Kostman
David Kostman is Co-CEO of Outbrain. He’s served in that role since November 2017. In addition to his role at Outbrain, Kostman serves as the chairman of the board of NICE Ltd., as a director of privately held companies ironSource and TIVIT SA and is Co-Founder of Nanoosh. He has also served on the board of Retalix.
Dan Martin
Dan is a seasoned freelance B2B content creator and copywriter with over 6 years of experience. His superpower lies in his ability to take complex and technical topics and articulate them in a way that is clear, accurate, and captivating.
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.
D'Ottavio Domenica
Domenica D'Ottavio is the Brand Relationship Manager at Fractl, a boutique growth agency based in Delray Beach, FL. When she’s not musing over the latest developments in content and PR, you can find her planning her next international trip, likely over a bowl of risotto.
Dan Sherman
Dan is head of Conversion Optimization at Outbrain. He’s responsible for making sure that all of our customers are going "down the funnel" in the most delightful and efficient way. Dan brings over 14 years of experience in online performance marketing and conversion optimization. Outside of work, Dan is kept busy by his wife and 4 young kids. In his spare time he loves to run marathons and drink good whisky, but not at the same time.
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.
Dana Wicnudel
Dana is a DIY Customer Success Manager on Outbrain's Global Growth team. She's been working for Outbrain for four years. Optimizations and all things content are her passions. Outside of the office, Dana loves dancing hip hop, petting all the dogs wherever she goes, and drinking mate (an Argentinian beverage).
Dennis Yuscavitch
Dennis Yuscavitch has spent the last several years creating and launching new product, most recently with Outbrain as Director of Product Marketing.
Elise Bennett
Elise has been a part of the Outbrain family since 2018, and currently leads Account Management for APAC. Before joining Outbrain, she worked for m2m Australia.
Andrew Burke
Andrew Burke is APAC Managing Director at Outbrain.
Elad Cheikha
Elad is Outbrain's PPC Manager. He was previously a team leader at Ocean Media and PPC Manager at Perelview, specializing in performance marketing. At Outbrain, Elad drives acquisition of new, high-quality customers via paid advertising platforms. Elad lives in Israel with his wife, daughter and their dog. He loves to cook Italian food and to drink wine.
Erika Dean
A North Carolina native, global operations strategist and product innovation enthusiast, Erika Dean is the Global Product Go-to-Market Director at Outbrain. In this role, Erika quarterbacks the global go-to-market operational cadence for Outbrain's new product launch strategies. Erika is passionate about spreading kindness around the world. As the founder and global chair of OBGood, Outbrain’s corporate social responsibility initiative, Erika and the regional chairs curate volunteer programming designed to benefit the community and increase employee engagement.
Eliran Elazar
Eliran is Marketing Operations Manager at Outbrain.
Emma Foulds
Emma is an HR and Recruitment Exec who joined Outbrain in March 2016. Born in Sydney, she grew up in Italy and now lives in London where she holds a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Leadership in Talent Management. On weekends you will find her at the cinema or enjoying nice food and trendy brunches London has to offer.
Eloise Friedman
Eloise is the Delivery team leader at Outbrain, with an M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering. She loves running and ice cream, and is part of the organization's Cloud Platform group.
Ehud Basis
Ehud is the former Head of Growth Marketing 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, 6-year-old son and 1-year-old baby girl. He loves following basketball from all around the globe.
Eduard Klein
Eduard Klein is an International Digital Growth Marketer, Blogger, and Entrepreneur with a global mindset. He guides through the process of starting and growing a digital business, and riding the wave of digital technology and marketing without getting swept away. Find him at www.eduardklein.com
Erin McCallion
Erin is the VP, Global Marketing at Outbrain.
Einat Netivi
Einat is a former Talent Acquisition Manager at Outbrain.
Eirini Pan
Eirini Pan was a Marketing Manager at Outbrain's European team. A Greek based in London, she manages data insights and design activities across Europe.
Emmy Shiring
Emmy has been with Outbrain for over 3 years and leads the Midwest and West Coast Customer Success team. Based in our cozy Chicago office, Emmy educates clients on all the tips and tricks to ensure they exceed their goals on the Outbrain network!
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.
Gal Nissani
Gal is the Conversion Optimization Director at Outbrain where her experience in data analysis, SEO and user experience all come together to make her an integral part of the self-serve team. Her past roles at Tomedes and Yehoshua TBWA represent a perfect medley of marketing and management which she uses to support all of her current initiatives.
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 Dudkiewicz
Gil Dudkiewicz is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartApp, a mobile media, and advertising company. Prior to StartApp, he was the CEO of SweetIM, which was acquired by Perion Network (NASDAQ: PERI) in November 2012 for $41 million. Gil was also founder and CEO of MyDTV/MeeVee, a personalized television guide, and television search. Gil holds an MBA from UC Berkeley as well as a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Gil Ditkovski
Gil Ditkovski is Programmatic Partnerships Manager at Outbrain. He has 13 years of experience in Online Advertising as a product leader and business developer.
Gil Lederer
Gil is the Head of Sales for Middle East, Africa & Russia at Outbrain and manages the sales and account managers teams for this region. He has over 15 years of 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.
Greg Wood
Greg is Head of Engage (ANZ) for Outbrain. He joined the company in May 2021 from The Trade Desk, and has over a decade’s experience in account management.
Gili Zohar
A marketing and communication specialist for the past 4 years. Gili enjoys working with developers, taking part in nurturing communities and telling Outbrain's technology story.
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.
Hope Horner
Hope Horner is a three-time entrepreneur that has been featured in Inc.'s Top 25 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017, Entrepreneur's 11 Marketing Experts that Could Change Your Business, and Pepperdine’s 40 Under 40. Horner is a regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., and multiple other publications where she shares startup insights and scalable solutions. She is currently working on her third startup, Lemonlight, an LA-based business that produces and distributes branded video content at scale.
Haran Rosenzweig
Haran is Director of Affiliate Sales at Outbrain's International Affiliate Hub, with a decade of experience in the native advertising and affiliate industries. He previously led performance sales and new business efforts in the EMEA region. Prior to his positions at Outbrain, he managed teams and projects based on content and performance-oriented native advertising media buying.
Hendrik Weins
Hendrik heads Account Management for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Outbrain. Before joining the Outbrain team in 2015, he worked for leading global businesses, including Siemens, IDG, Edelman, Microsoft Xbox and more, across the media, PR and technology sectors.
Isabella Barbato
Isabella is Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific at Outbrain, based out of their Singapore office. Originally from Italy, she has spent the last 6 years in Asia, and has joined Outbrain in May 2014. Isabella is passionate about technology and the digital space. In her free time, she enjoys music, traveling and yoga.
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.
Itamar Gero
Itamar Gero is the founder of SEO Reseller, a global digital marketing solutions provider that empowers agencies and their local clients all over the world. When he isn’t working, he’s traveling the world, meditating, or dreaming (in code).
Inbar Lajtos
Inbar is a Marketing Automation Manager in Outbrain’s Growth Marketing team, where she is creating a comprehensive marketing automation strategy to engage, convert, and retain users via persona-based personalized journeys. When not devoting her time to automate and monitor marketing activities, Inbar loves travel, wine and live concerts.
Inna Yatsyna
Inna Yatsyna is a Brand and Community Development Specialist at Serpstat, an all-in-one SEO platform. She’s a passionate lover of writing useful posts and helping people. Also, Inna likes reading, traveling and especially dogs. Connect with her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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.
Itamar Goldfeld
Itamar is leading the biz-dev & CS in the Israeli market, Outbrain. Prior to his position at Outbrain, he managed some of Israel’s leading brands, with 15 years of marketing and strategy management experience.
Joe Addona
Originally from Philadelphia (Go Eagles), and currently leading West Coast relationships as our brainy Sales Director, Joe recently made a pilgrimage out West, residing (and working!) in sunny San Diego.
Jarrod Wright
Jarrod Wright is a creative marketing nerd with more than a decade of marketing experience, working with businesses both as an external consultant and as an internal lead. He is currently the head of Marketing at Chargebacks911.com, a company that helps online retailers prevent and dispute chargebacks. Jarrod appreciates his Sales department and they have a fruitful and cooperative relationship. You can follow him on Twitter to learn more.
Jennifer Bainbridge
Jen is part of the Customer Support Team at Outbrain and also manages the Amplify Help Center. She has worked in technical support roles for over a decade with a focus on technical writing. When not working, Jen enjoys cooking, watching Netflix, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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.
Jonathan Bradford
Jonathan, or more commonly known to Outbrainers as ‘JB', is Director of Product Marketing, based in London. Focusing on our Engage products, he dedicates his time helping to shape and spread the word about Outbrain’s technology to aid publishers in overcoming their challenges, and of course, delivering success. In his spare time, he is the proud parent to two adorable cats.
Jennifer Daniel
Jennifer Daniel is the Senior Vice President of HR at Outbrain where she hires outstanding people, oversees the culture and employee engagement, improves global communications architecture, and ensures quality learning and development opportunities. Jennifer received her undergraduate degree in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, then earned a masters degree in a combination of engineering and geology from the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoys spending time with her three kids and husband.
Jeilan Devanesan
Jeilan's a copywriter at Venngage, the online infographic maker. When he's not writing about design trends or content marketing hacks, he's usually reading a book, writing fantasy stories or playing basketball. Connect with him on Linkedin or Twitter
Josh Feller
Josh Feller is the Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Outbrain.
Jesse Goldstein
Jesse Goldstein is a Sales Director on the Amplify Team at Outbrain. Jesse has experience working on both the agency and publisher side of the digital media world. A graduate of Indiana University, Jesse is a die-hard Hoosier fan.
Jillian Gogel
Jillian Gogel is the content marketing manager at AppsFlyer, the global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics. She is passionate about creating sustainable relationships between partners, marketers, and clients through data-driven content, and thinks often of uplifting future content strategies. In her spare time, she manages her personal blog, travels the road less taken, and creates oil pastel artwork.
Joe James
Joe works for Outbrain down-under, as the Head of Brands & Agencies. He has worked in ad-land for the last 10+ years across OOH, TV, print, and 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™.
Jerneja Ham
Jerneja is a Product Marketing Manager at Outbrain and focuses on everything related to Bid Strategies and Amplify dashboard. Prior to Outbrain, she worked as a Product marketing manager at leading mobile gaming company, Outfit7 and Outbrain's DSP, Zemanta.
John Stevens
John Stevens is the founder and CEO of Hosting Facts.
Joshua keller
Joshua Keller serves as co-CEO of Global Agora, a venture capital firm that has launched eight of its own successful companies to date and invests in seed-stage, high-growth start-ups. He is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience in internet marketing and digital advertising. Joshua is the co-founder of Union Square Media Group, a leading full-service digital media agency whose clients include Fortune 500 companies and top brands such as Wall Street Journal, Nestlé, and Match.com. In 2017, Joshua co-founded Maximus Live, an innovative native advertising software company. Prior to Global Agora, Joshua co-founded Headlines & Heroes, LLC where he spent several years building and scaling businesses. With expertise in providing strategic direction to companies, Joshua has spearheaded multiple mergers and acquisitions, including Need2Know, which was recently acquired by Cheddar. He is a member of the board of directors for Spark Networks, the leading global dating company, and SUP ATX, the world’s largest stand-up paddleboard manufacturer.
Joyce Chou
Joyce Chou is a Content Specialist at Compose.ly, a content platform that matches businesses with seasoned freelance writers. When she’s not writing for Compose.ly’s blog, you can find her hiking the great outdoors or watching animal videos on loop.
Jessica Thiefels
Jessica Thiefels is founder and CEO of Jessica Thiefels Consulting, an organic content marketing agency. She’s been writing for more than 10 years and has been featured in top publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fast Company. She also regularly contributes to Business Insider, Glassdoor, Score.org and more. Follow her on Twitter and connect on LinkedIn via the links below.
Karen Walden
Karen is the Director of European Marketing at Outbrain. A storyteller at heart, she crafts narratives that spotlight Outbrain's value in an accessible and compelling way. Through master wordsmithing, the magic of meaningful design, and a customer-centric approach, Karen helps advertisers and publishers leverage the power of Outbrain. Karen credits coffee for its significant contribution to her work over the years.
Katarina Ereš
Katarina is a Munich original with Croatian roots. In her position as Director Sales South, she is responsible for the Southern Germany regions, Austria and Switzerland. The high demand for quality content already played a major role in her previous position at Condé Nast as Sales Director Digital for VOGUE, AD, and Style. In her free time, she can be met Stand-Up Paddling at one of the many lakes in the Bavarian area, hiking in the mountains and always looking for some good food and wine.
Kayla Matthews
Kayla Matthews writes about digital technologies and online marketing for publications like Contently, Convince and Convert, Marketing Dive and PR Newswire. You can read more from Kayla by following her on LinkedIn, or by checking out her personal technology blog: productivitybytes.com.
Keith Pepper
Keith Pepper is Vice President, People & Culture at Outbrain. He’s based in New York City.
Kelly Hayes
Kelly is Outbrain's Director of Account Management for Northern Europe. Kelly joined Outbrain in 2015 and was initially part of the US account management team, working across retail, tech and finance verticals. With 7+ years of industry experience, Kelly brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding within the native space to her team and their clients.
Karen Louise Davies
Karen Louise Davies has a 20-year background in copywriting, ghostwriting and editing, with additional experience in social media management, leading to her current role as Content Creator and Writer for web analytics company www.thisisbeacon.com
Kira Prentice
Kira is an intern on the Outbrain UX team and graduating senior at NYU. She is studying computer science and linguistics, and has worked in visual and UX design at startups in Austin and New York. In May she will begrudgingly leave Outbrain to start work at a medical tech company in Boston.
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.
Katie Secret
Katie is the Global Head of Product Marketing at Outbrain, covering messaging and strategy for Outbrain's advertiser and publisher lines of business. Prior to Outbrain, Katie spearheaded product marketing efforts for both publishers and advertisers at programmatic ad exchange EMX, and at SaaS platform Newswhip.
Klara Zavrl
Klara is People & Culture Generalist and Talent Acquisition Partner at Outbrain. She enjoys finding the best talents in the market, supporting them to develop their potential to its fullest and watching them thrive in our amazing team.
Keren Zimbris
Keren Zimbris is Head of Content Compliance, Global at Outbrain. Her "digital advertising career" started 6 years ago at DSNR Media group, she started as an AM and finished there as head of mobile media. Outside of work she enjoys playing basketball, snowboarding and listening to music, especially if it's served on a vinyl record ;)
Laine Rosa
Laine is a Product Manager at Outbrain, focusing on product offerings for advertisers around data integrations and solutions, new ad experiences, and more.
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.
Lisa LaCour
Lisa LaCour: Lisa LaCour is Vice President of Global Marketing at Outbrain, where she oversees the corporate brand, communications, and global marketing efforts worldwide. She joined Outbrain in 2010, and is part of the senior management team, responsible for the driving the company’s corporate positioning, branding, public relations, and customer acquisition efforts. Previously, Ms. LaCour served as Director of Marketing at fashion and lifestyle brand DailyCandy, where she built, and managed the company’s first marketing team. Prior to her work for DailyCandy, she led audience development and branding efforts for AOL’s network of content sites.
Lucian Nedin
Lucian is the General Manager of Outbrain in Timisoara. He focuses on the management of strategic partnerships, new business development, online marketing, and advertising sales in Eastern Europe.
Lauren Pica
As the brains (and voice) behind the Outbrain brand communications (and our Head of US Marketing!), Lauren spends her days of marketing scrappiness doing everything in her power to gain and retain happy customers.
Liraz Postan
Liraz is an international SEO and content expert, helping brands and publishers grow through search engines. She is Outbrain's former SEO and Content Director and previously worked in the gaming, B2C and B2B industries for more than a decade.
Libi Rynkyu
Libi is Retention Manager in Outbrain's Growth Marketing team. She previously worked as Marketing Project Manager at John Bryce Hi-Tech Training School in Tel Aviv. Digital marketing and customer relationships are her battlefield. When not tackling marketing challenges, Libi loves British period drama TV, Stephen King books, and pizza.
Lila Tenenbown
Lila is a seasoned Event Marketer with over 10 year of providing innovative, high-touch experiences for brands. When she's not running around making event magic, you can find her playing classical piano, car camping, or enjoying a cold Diet Coke while watching a West Texas sunset.
Lisa Wong
Lisa is the Director of Research and Insights on Outbrain's Product Marketing team. She manages key internal data initiatives as well as research partnerships. With an extensive background in quantitative marketing research, her goal is to weave actionable insights into every story. In her spare time, Lisa is eating her way across the globe with gusto.
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.
Marry Ann
Marry Ann is a branding consultant for PushMaze, a service that lets you send trackable push notifications for users. She mainly passionate about building brands in all aspect of online marketing.
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 Banner
Matt Banner is a digital marketing expert with over 10 years of experience specializing in helping beginners learn how to start and grow blogs with his own site, On Blast Blog.
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith is a Senior. Editor at ContentDevelopmentPros.com, a leading inbound marketing company that provides comprehensive content solutions, web design and development, SEO, and content writing services to small and mid-sized businesses.
Michael Berg
Mike is a Marketing Manager at Outbrain, primarily focused on the U.S. region. Previously, he worked in both client-side and agency roles, spearheading strategies related to paid media, SEO, and content marketing. In his spare time, Mike enjoys trying to maintain a balance between an active lifestyle and eating far too much Chicago deep-dish pizza.
Moran Brayer
Moran is Outbrain's SEO Manager. He spends his days leveraging Outbrain's online assets to maximize search engine visibility. As an SEO, he’s always on the lookout for new search engine features and innovations, with the aim of having every trick up his sleeve to conquer new SERP real estate. His motto: “It’s not me who's asking, it's Google! I'm only spreading the gospel!”
Mae Campbell
Mae is a Product Communications Specialist who joined the Outbrain Amplify team in June of 2018 after graduating from Loyola University Maryland. Mae supports all new product releases and updates by educating internal teams while also maintaining the Help Center to assist external clients. After work, she can be found at Y7 or cheering on her favorite New York sports teams!
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.
Megan Wenzl
Megan Wenzl is a writer based in Chicago. She enjoys creating useful, informative stories to help businesses succeed. Megan is currently the community outreach associate for Clique Studios. When not writing, Megan enjoys watching movies and spending time with family.
Maggie Flick
Maggie Flick is Director Sales, North at Outbrain and responsible for all brands and agencies in Northern Germany. Her consulting focuses on reaching conversion goals (leads, sales, app downloads among others). Maggie has been working for over four years with some of the largest brands and performance marketers in Germany.
Megan Hourston
Megan is Sales Manager at Outbrain, a role she has held since August 2021. Before joining Outbrain, Megan was a Digital Account Manager at major Australian radio network, Southern Cross Austereo.
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.
Mike Nobil
Mike Nobil is Product Manager at Outbrain.
Miko Levy
Miko Levy is Vice President of Customer Acquisition at Outbrain. Miko is responsible for the global growth and expansion of Outbrain's self-serve business, overseeing online customer acquisition, retention and account management. A performance marketing specialist, Miko was previously the Head of Online Marketing at Conduit where he built and managed the online, sales and customer support departments of Conduit mobile. Prior to that, he was VP Marketing at ROASTe.com. His online marketing career was founded at 888.com which allowed him to combine his love of marketing with poker. Aside from poker, Miko is an avid marathon runner (with a sub-4hr goal) and coffee lover. Miko holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and currently resides in Israel with his wife, Liat, and daughter, Ori.
Melodie Lascar
Melodie is a Product Marketing Manager for Video at Outbrain, after over 10 years experience in AdTech between Paris and Tel Aviv.
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.
Matthew LoDolce
Matt is the Sr. Corporate Communications Manager at Outbrain, helping the company tell its story. In his free time he enjoys fishing, hiking and playing with his dog, Ziggy.
Mike Mathis
Mike is a User Experience Designer at Outbrain. Prior employers include JPMorgan Chase, Yahoo, and a Newsday route with his brother.
Marisa Mendes
Marisa is the Global Product Marketing Manager for Platforms & Programmatic Partnerships at Outbrain, helping to bring the new generation of Outbrain recommendations to innovative environments, where audiences are spending time and ready to discover things that interest them. Her roots are in Portugal but she’s been a Londoner for over half a decade, and loves to discover hidden gems on her many road trips around the UK.
Michael Olaye
Michael leads the commercial efforts to help grow Video for Outbrain in Europe, and is a keen contributor to fostering diversity in ad-tech and beyond.
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.
Matt Peterson
Matt joined Outbrain in late 2012 and has worked with some of the world’s largest brands, agencies, and publishers to drive their content marketing strategies. He’s now leading the North American sales team working specifically with publishers to help them reach new qualified readers around the web.
Michael Pirone
Michael is the co-founder and creative director at Vidico, a video production agency that produces high-performing video content for startups and tech companies like Square, Uber, and Spotify. Michael and his team like to explain "the hard stuff" with the aim of bringing more clarity to the messaging of new and innovative tech products around the world.
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.
Mony Rannan
Mony is a musician and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Voice Crafters and Audio Buzz, a unique production music website with a one-of-a-kind tool called Video Preview, which allows users to comp music tracks with their video in real-time and help find the perfect piece of music faster.
Mazi Ravid
Mazi is VP People & Culture, based at Outbrain's R&D headquarters in Netanya, Israel. She leads the P&C team for Israel, APAC, Japan, and Slovenia.
Maria Fuster-Sanchez
María supports the marketing activities at Outbrain Spain. Prior to Outbrain, María worked for some advertising agencies where she developed her content creation and social media skills. In her free time, she enjoys extreme sports.
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.
Marie Thomas
Marie Thomas joined Outbrain in 2014 as an Account Strategist in Australia and New Zealand. Previously, she spent 10+ years as marketer working for leading publishers and brands like Fairfax in Australia, The Daily Mail group in the UK and American Express in New York. She's now an Industry Manager for Outbrain and helps publishers grow their audience and increase their audience engagement.
Madeline Ulrich
Maddi is a Senior Account Executive at Outbrain in Chicago, helping to build our Midwest team. A Cleveland native, she knows that 'Midwest is best!' and is working to prove it.
May Zaidman
May is a software engineer with a passion for technology and machine learning. In her free time, she can often be found listening to music or buried in a good book.
Moran Zana
Moran Zana has been the Procurement Manager at Outbrain for the past three years and has more than 10 years of experience in global procurement and vendor sourcing. She lives in Ramat-Hasharon, loves mountain biking and sailing, and is the proud owner of a cat and a dog. A win-win approach enthusiast.
Nadav Koren
Nadav is a senior sales manager at Outbrain's International Affiliate Hub and manages the new business efforts in the EMEA region in Outbrain. He has more than 10 years of experience in the affiliate industry.
Natalie Chan
Natalie manages Customer Retention for Outbrain Amplify. Prior to Outbrain, Natalie spent most of her career focused on connecting brands with consumers, working at ad agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi in Sydney & New York. An Australian in New York, Natalie is embracing American conveniences such as Seamless, Instacart and Soap.com; and is perfecting her Valley girl american accent.
Nir Elharar
Nir is VP of Growth Marketing at Outbrain, overseeing customer acquisition and retention for the global company. 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.
Nini Olorunoje
Nini Olorunoje is a marketing manager at Outbrain, UK. She is experienced with a specific focus on broadcast and international media.
Nina Pandel Kosir
Nina is a Talent Acquisition Partner in the People & Culture department at Outbrain. With more than 6 years of HR experience in the tech industry, she is responsible for attracting and hiring the best talent, and for EVP in Slovenia. In her spare time, you’ll find Nina in bunker gear fighting real fires or refereeing FINA swimming competitions.
Nalini Sharma
Nalini is Senior Account Strategist at Outbrain in India. She manages the entire execution of both the Engage for publishers and Amplify for advertisers businesses for Outbrain India.
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.
Olivia Ordonez
Olivia is the Team Lead for the US Growth and Brazil Account Management teams. Based in NYC, Olivia is originally from Dallas, Texas. In her free time, you'll find her practicing her photography skills, testing new recipes, or searching for the best skyline views.
Olympia Pratesi
Olympia is Onboarding Enablement Manager at Outbrain, based in Milan, Italy.
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.
Paola Simmons
Paola is the Sales Development Team Lead at Outbrain. Originally from Nicaragua, she is passionate about traveling; so far she has been to 28 countries and counting!
Pepjin Groeneveld
Pepijn is Business Development Manager Outbrain NL.
Rachel Feidelman
Rachel is a content-obsessed Customer Success Manager, working with publisher Amplifiers to surpass their performance goals on Outbrain.
Rachel Jermansky
Rachel is a Corporate Communications Manager at Outbrain. She has worked in PR for the past five years since graduating from Northeastern University.
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.
Rocco Pastonesi
Rocco leads Outbrain's performance team in the Northern European region. Before joining Outbrain, Rocco worked at Tradedoubler, where he began his journey into the world of affiliate marketing.
Ryan Gould
Ryan is a Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Services Elevation Marketing. As a strategic marketing and branding expert, Ryan helps Elevation’s clients solve their problems and achieve their business goals through integrated marketing solutions distinguished by research, storytelling, engagement, and conversion. With a proven track record of energizing brands, and having worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies, Ryan is a respected expert in achieving consistent results through creative design, thought-provoking narratives, and innovative problem-solving.
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 a former 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.
Sydney Davis
Sydney is a Product Marketing Manager and has been at Outbrain for a year. She has over six years of ad tech experience, and previously held Media Buying & Strategy roles before transitioning to Product Marketing in 2018. She currently lives in Chicago, and likes to spend her free time cooking plant-based meals, running, biking, and discovering new music.
Salma Echahly
Salma is a Partner Manager that helps publishers grow their direct and indirect revenue streams via the Outbrain technology. She is also Outbrain’s first DEI officer, ensuring that conversations around diversity, equality, and inclusion are happening at all levels of the company and business.
Sarah Gavin
Sarah is Outbrain's European Marketing Director and is responsible for all marketing and communications activity across Outbrain's growing EU territories. Former VP of Marketing & Communications at AOL/The Huffington Post. Sarah was part of AOL’s senior European leadership team and has more than 15 years experience working for some of the world's most reputable companies. Prior to AOL Europe, Sarah was VP Communications International, AOL and a member of Bebo's global leadership team, reporting to CEO, Joanna Shields. In this capacity she was tasked with developing and driving the global corporate/consumer marcoms strategy for the hot youth lifestyle brand alongside AIM, ICQ and number of AOL’s established brands and consumer offerings. Prior to Bebo, Sarah worked for a boutique communications agency where she was part of the management team and headed-up the corporate and B2B division of the company, supporting a wide range of high profile global brands.
Shawn Ragell
Shawn Ragell is a full stack marketer working in the Toronto office of content marketing startup Pressboard. Prior to helping brands create custom content with North America’s most influential digital publishers, Shawn led social media strategy at Blue Ant Media. You can find him tweeting about content marketing and mid-2000s screamo bands at @shawnragell.
Stephanie Himoff
Stephanie Himoff is the UK Managing Director, Northern Europe at Outbrain. She has over 20 years of experience spearheading the growth of Internet businesses in Europe working with innovative digital start-ups and world-leading technology. Her passion for the digital space, strong experience of working cross cultures in international businesses and ability to adapt in fast-paced environments are the key factors behind her success.
Sivan Kiperman
Sivan leads Outbrain's international activities for the Small-Medium Publishers segment. She has over 4 years of experience managing strategic relations and projects in the online market, with a focus on the publisher side. When she's not working, Sivan loves spending time with her daughter, watching a good TV show, and with the time that's left - sleep:)
Sarah Masessa
Sarah is a Marketing Communications Specialist at Outbrain. She previously utilized creative storytelling to create marketing campaigns as a Content Marketing Specialist at VMware. She is passionate about music and is incredibly proud of her ever-growing record collection.
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.
Sujan Patel
Sujan Patel is a partner at Ramp Ventures & co-founder of Web Profits. He has over 14 years of marketing experience and has led the digital marketing strategy for companies like Salesforce, Mint, Intuit, and many other Fortune 500 caliber companies.
Stephanie Sentuc
Steph is a Global Product Marketing Manager at Outbrain based in Munich, Germany. She focuses on industry standards, covering key topics including the Cookieless future and Core Web Vitals. Prior to Outbrain, she worked as a media consultant at Merkle B2B and at Facebook's EMEA HQ.
Sam Steiner
Originally from Australia, Sam worked with Outbrain across the Asia Pacific region before joining the New York team this year as a Sales Manager. Sam works on the Publisher Amplify team, working with publishers all over the country on their native strategies, a process that typically involves at least one meeting over a flat white.
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.
Tara Hassan
Tara is the Global Marketing Manager for Publishers & Platforms at Outbrain. She is focused on delivering content and campaigns for our Publisher audience, showing what Outbrain’s technology can really do to solve industry challenges and help take their site to the next level. Prior to Outbrain, she worked at Google’s London office in the Developer Marketing team focusing on Google Play and Android.
Tian Hunt
Tian is a freelance writer for Envato. Currently in her final year of creative writing, Tian is passionate about words, writing and marketing. When she’s not writing for Envato, she’s working on her next writing project – a fiction novel.
Thomas Vogt
Thomas is Head of Publishers and Head of Publisher Account Management for Outbrain Germany (DACH).
Tania Ilutsa
Tania is a content marketing specialist at CIENCE. She has hands-on experience in sociology, marketing, and sales. She's an avid reader and art-junky, always on the lookout for interesting new ideas and topics to inspire her writing.
Therese Palmere
Therese is a content writer and consultant for Aumcore, a digital marketing agency in NYC that specializes in eCommerce development solutions and all things digital. Therese dabbles in social media marketing and writes about everything, from web development to emerging marketing trends.
Tara Parachuck
Tara is a creative and passionate communications manager at Voices.com. With her positive "can do" attitude, she brings a fresh approach to her projects.
Tolik Piflaks
Tolik is a copywriter, storyteller, and screenwriter who’s written for television, newspapers, and radio shows in Israel and around the world. His work has appeared on Comedy Central Israel, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, and he is the recipient of several awards. Tolik works for Outbrain and lives in Israel with his wife and two kids.
Tomer Yuval
Tomer is a Data Ops Engineer at Outbrain, with a bachelor's degree in Science. He is passionate about sports and is part of the organization's Data group.
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 Blasco
Víctor Blasco is the founder and CEO of the explainer video company Yum Yum Videos. He is also an audiovisual designer and video marketing expert. Aside from running the business, he loves studying Chinese philosophy and is a real geek for science fiction films and comics!
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.
Wendy Bernal
Wendy Bernal is Marketing Director for North America and LATAM at Outbrain where she is responsible for managing and implementing regional marketing initiatives including PR/ communications, market research, event activations, sales development and email/CRM. Wendy joined Outbrain after having first been a client while she was at Disney Interactive overseeing marketing for a portfolio of sites targeted to women and families. She saw great results from amplifying content via the discovery platform and became part of the team in 2013!
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Will Fleiss
Will is the founder of Shared Audiences, a social media advertising company. Previously, Will served as Outbrain’s Global Head of Content Marketing. He has also led growth and marketing at health and education startups TrialJectory, Bakpax, and Knewton. Earlier in his career he received training at renowned agencies Ogilvy and BKV. Will lives in Connecticut with his wife, two girls, and their dog. He loves podcasts and his favorite movie is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Will Magley
Experienced Inside Sales Representative focused on helping marketers drive marketing results. I eat, sleep, and breathe quality B2B lead generation, new customer acquisition, brand awareness & thought leadership. Between my background in advertising tech, sales, and content marketing, I work with my clients to develop unique and powerful strategies to achieve their marketing goals and promote great content.
Yael Miriam Klass
Yael is the Content Lead at Slidely + Promo, making marketing easier and more effective through intuitive video creation. She lives and breaths content and creative storytelling in all its forms. When not developing innovative ideas to help global businesses big and small you can find her riding her bike through the streets of Tel Aviv and sipping iced coffee while listening to the latest pop culture podcasts.
Yaron Galai
Yaron is Co-Founder and Co 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.
Yulia Derykot
As a member of the Depositphotos.com team, Yulia spreads awareness about the use of visuals in content marketing through her writing. Yulia also focuses on topics such as photography and design. She is passionate about art, music, and travel.
Yaniv Gilad
Yaniv Gilad is CEO and Founder of Listory, The content refinery. With Listory, you can follow and connect with curators who have found the best of the internet for you.
Yury Glikin
Yury is Head of Sales (ANZ) for Outbrain, and works with agencies and brands to bring new business into the Outbrain ecosystem. He joined the company after a stint at Fiverr, and was a manager at Booking.com before that.
Yaniv Nava
Yaniv is the former Senior Online Acquisition Manager in Outbrain's Growth Marketing team. He previously worked at Google in the AdWords support team, and at IBM Digital headquarters in Dublin. When he's not living the PPC world, he loves to surf, play basketball and travel the world.
Yael Shpaizman
Yael is Conversion Optimization Manager at Outbrain's digital marketing team. She previously worked at dmg - DSNR Media Group and Reuveni Pridan. Her job is to learn users' online behaviour; to understand what makes people tick and more specially what makes them click.
Yoav Tourel
Yoav is Head of Sales, APAC at Outbrain. He joined Outbrain in 2012 as the Head of Account Strategy in Australia & New Zealand. Before that, he was born and bred as a media planner and for more than 13 years he worked in advertising, media and research roles, mostly in the agency land. He's also, a proud father of 3 girls (girls rock!), married to a vet (vets rock!). Oh, and some would say that he looks like Andre Agassi and sounds like Borat. Anyway, just call him "Joe" (or "Yoey").
Zarrar Rasool
Zarrar is the Founder and Managing Director of Awkward Media. He’s a seasoned entrepreneur who has relied on Digital Marketing as a cornerstone for success.
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.
Zeeshan Khalid
Zeeshan is a web architect, e-commerce specialist, entrepreneur and CEO and founder of FME Extensions, a leading e-commerce web design and Magento 2 development agency. Over the years, FME Extensions has successfully delivered projects in Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla and other CMS/shopping cart platforms.
Zoe Monborne
Zoe is a Product Communications Specialist on the Outbrain Engage Product Marketing Team in NYC. When she isn’t supporting new product launches and feature releases, you can find her in the kitchen attempting new recipes or listening to true-crime podcasts.