Marc Phillips - Founder &
CEO
Marc Philips is the Founder & CEO of
SearchForecast which provides search engine optimization tools and
professional solutions for websites and website publishing
technologies.
Marc is an expert in search engine technologies and is the publisher of the world's
largest AdSense Publishers
Directory - listing over 420,000 websites within the AdSense
Content Network. 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 Philips is the founder of Content
Revenue Strategies Conference & Expo - http://www.crsconferences.com
- the first contextaul advertising conference and expo.
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 an advisor to
Silicon Valley based Localyte.com Inc - an online travel community - acquired by NileGuide in 2010. Read more at TechCrunch.
Marc is a currently an advisor of PlayHaven
- a social gaming publishing network based in San Francisco,
Califorinia. Marc is also 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, Contivio and AdSemble.
Marc serves on the advisory board for Parallel Capital Early Stage
Venture Capital Limited Partnership.
Marc Philips is the founder of various websites including
Salaries.com.au, a free jobs classified website, available at http://www.salaries.com.au
and a discount travel booking website, available at http://www.cheapaccommodation.com.au.
Marc holds a Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne), has authored 8 books and is an authorized representative to
provide financial advice on securities and managed funds. Marc periodically attends technology studies at Stanford University, California.
Dustin Suchter - VP,
Technology
Dustin has the
responsibility for technical direction of SearchForecast. Dustin
specializes in search engine algorithms and search engine technologies
- having worked for 3 years with Inktomi (acquired by YAHOO!) and for 4
years at Yahoo! Head Office in Sunnyvale, California. Dustin holds an
Engineering Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Richard Andrus - VP, Client Services & Channels
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, business development, and sales experience at
XO Communications and GTE Internetworking. Richard has an MBA from Cal
State East Bay.
Raymond Norwood -VP, Sales & Business Development
Raymond is responsible for sales and business development for both
SearchForecast and Content Revenue Strategies Conference & Expo -
http://www.crsconferences.com.
Ray started his career is Sales with Yellow Book USA. As the company
was breaking out of small markets In Long Island, NY and into New York
City he sold print ads to Small to Mid-Sized businesses in
Manhattan’s storefronts and high-rise buildings.
Ray has
over 12 years sales management experience in enterprise sales
solutions, business development, and pre-sales consulting 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 and is passionate about the New York Yankees.
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Assaf Igell, VP Affiliate Marketing & Media
Assaf is responsible for affiliate marketing, publisher network development and media buying at SearchForecast. Assaf commenced his carreer as a web analyst at the third largest iGaming ad agency in Israel with over $1.5MM monthly ad-spend. Thereafter, Assaf co-founded Syntryx Inc a competitive intelligence search engine. Assaf is an experienced traffic analyst and specializes in customer acquisition, deposit retention and managing traffic of tens of millions of dollars across paid search, affiliates (CPA) and social media. Assaf is a frequent speaker at Affiliate Summit, DigitalHollywood and the Casino Affiliate Convention. Assaf lives in San Francisco.
Tania Johnston -Regional Manager, Australia
Tania Johnston is the Regional Manager for in Australia. Tania specializes in new
business development, relationship management and channel management,
she has worked in the IT industry for 15 years in many diverse areas
such as hardware sales, application sales in the area of property
management, winery management and financials as well as database sales
working for Oracle. She has also spent 10 years in the online
e-learning market acting as Channel Manager for Skillsoft Australia
looking after content partners such as Microsoft, Cisco, Novell,
Oracle, IBM/Lotus as well as establishing resellers. She was involved
in setting up SelfCert to resell IT Certifications via e-Learning to
the individual market, a company that was purchased by Seek Ltd. which
is now known as Seek Learning. Tania introduced the first franchise to
Australia of the well know US based Dating for Busy Professionals
franchise called Its Just Lunch. Franchises are now in most major
cities in Australia.
Sam Stern -VP Online
Media
Sam is responsible for online media amongst SearchForecast clients.
Previously, Sam was head of business development for Yahoo! Australia
and New Zealand. Prior to joining Yahoo! Search Marketing, Sam worked
with Fairfax Digital Australia for three years as Business Manager in
Digital Distribution. Previously, he was Content Director for the
Thompson Group in the UK.
Riyaz Lakhani - VP Technical
Services.
After finishing his engineering in the year 1993, he went to England to
pursue a diploma in Business Management. There after he worked for
various large and small organizations including KPITCummins where he
was a practice head and then worked at Cybage Softwares Pvt. Ltd, where
he handled the accounts of the EMEA region. Over the years he has
helped large organizations with automation of business processes and
help build applications around the legacy softwares of these companies.
Though he has been stationed in India but frequently visits client
locations around the world. He now manages the offshore division of
Searchforecast India and handles a team of 50 engineers.
David Rodnitzky - Partner CRS
Conference and The AdSense Directory
Since 2000, David has held positions as Director of Marketing at
Rentals.com, an apartment rental web site funded by Sequoia Capital and
Softbank Venture Partners and Senior Manager of Search Marketing at
FindLaw, the largest legal website. In 2004, David joined Adteractive
as Director of Search Marketing and was recently Vice President of
Advertising at Mercantila.com. In 2008, David founded PPCAdBuying
providing his paid search expertise. David received a BA with honors
from the University of Chicago and a JD with honors from the University
of Iowa. David lives in San Francisco.
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.
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