Management
Marc Phillips is the Founder & CEO of SearchForecast which provides content traffic professional solutions for websites and website publishing technologies.
With over 12 years experience in online analytics, online advertising and search engine techniques, Marc oversees the management of hundreds of global clients. Marc’s previous online research company, APT Strategies was founded in 1993 and sold to Jupiter Research (NASDAQ: JUPM) in 1999.
Marc was a founding shareholder of Australia's leading affiliate company - Commission Monster and initial shareholder of Viva9, acquired by Blue Freeway Ltd in 2007.
Marc was a founding shareholder and board member to Silicon Valley based GlanceGuide an online video metric solutions provider, acquired by Nielsen in 2010. Read more at TechCrunch.
Marc was the founder of Australian based Sportbets - an online sports betting community website - acquired by PaddyPower PLC.
Marc is an advisor to GeoDelic.com - a discovery and location based service and iPhone application based in Santa Monica, California. Marc also serves on the advisory board for Sonim Technologies Inc. and the Board of Directors for Contivio Inc. Marc also serves on the advisory board for Parallel Capital Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership.
Marc Phillips is the founder of Content Revenue Strategies Conference & Expo - http://www.crsconferences.com - the first contextaul advertising conference and expo and collaborates with Stanford University in producing the Biblio-Tech Conference to promote humanities into technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Marc continues to develop dozens of .com.au websites in his portfolio including: http://www.salaries.com.au, http://www.bets.com.au, http://www.phonenumber.com.au, http://www.cheapaccommodation.com.au and http://www.cream.com.au
Marc holds a Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne), has authored 8 books inlcuding 'Successful eCommerce' and The World's Best Online Advertising Campaigns. Marc periodically attends technology studies at Stanford University, California.
Richard is responsible for furthering our partner strategy and making it easy for partners to use and sell SearchForecast services. Richard has over 10 years product management and sales experience at XO Communications and GTE Internetworking. Richard has an MBA from Cal State East Bay.
Raymond started his career is Sales with Yellow Book USA. Ray was previously in enterprise sales at One Commuications - the largest privately held Competitive Local Exchange Carrier & XO Communications (NASDAQ: XOHO). Ray holds a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University. Ray lives in New York City.
Assaf was previously an analyst at iGaming in Israel with over $1.5MM monthly ad-spend. Assaf co-founded Syntryx Inc., a competitive intelligence search engine. Assaf manages traffic of tens of millions of dollars across paid search, affiliates (CPA) and social media. Assaf lives in San Francisco.
Tania spent 10 years in e-learning as Channel Manager for Skillsoft Australia and SelfCert, a company that was purchased by Seek Ltd. which is now known as Seek Learning. Tania launched the franchise called 'Its Just Lunch' into Australia.
After finishing his engineering in 1993, he went to England to pursue a diploma in Business Management. Riyaz was a practice head at Cybage Softwares Pvt. Ltd, where he handled the accounts of the EMEA region. He manages the offshore division of Searchforecast India and handles a team of 50 engineers.
Eytan Elbaz - Advisor
Eytan was a founding member of Applied Semantics which created AdSense. Google acquired Applied Semantics for $102M. Eytan was formerly the Head of Domain Channel at Google until 2008. Eytan lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Cameron Yuill - Advisor
Cameron, LLB, MBA was Executive Vice President for Viator Inc for 4 years and is currently Founder and CEO of AdGent 007 Inc. Prior to being the founding VP, Partner Marketing at Cendant Inc (NYSE: CD), a premium online advertising network. Cameron previously was a practicing commercial attorney for 5 years.
Drew Ianni - Advisor
Drew is currently the Chairman of APPNATION, a conference on apps and the mobile ecosystem. From 2007 to 2010, Drew Ianni was Global Conference Chair of ad:tech and was previously CEO of @mosphere, BBDO's digital marketing division. Drew was previously an Equity Analyst at Lazard Freres & Co and an online advertising analyst at Jupiter Research in New York. Drew lives in New York City.