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Executive Team

Amiad Solomon - Founder & CEO

Mr. Solomon is the CEO and Founder of Peer39. Together with Peer39 scientists, research and development and marketing groups, he developed the core patents covering Peer39's unique semantic analysis technology and business practices. Prior to founding Peer39, Mr. Solomon was a sales and business development executive at IDX (acquired by GE). Mr. Solomon is one of the world's leading experts on the application of semantic technology to next-generation online advertising.

Matthew Goldstein - COO

Mr. Goldstein joined Peer39 from Tacoda, where he was SVP, Business Operations and one of the key executives responsible for the explosive growth of the company through its acquisition by AOL in 2007. Prior to Tacoda, Mr. Goldstein had been with MTV Networks since 1989 serving last as Vice President of Online Ad Operations. He was also Vice President, Business Development and Operations for Nickelodeon Online from 1997 to 2001.

Eran Utmazgin - CIO

Mr. Utmazgin was a technology leader at Shopping.com, from its growth as a small startup to the largest comparison shopping engine on the net, through its acquisition by eBay. At Shopping.com Mr. Utmazgin managed the product catalog department and lead Shopping's globalization efforts. At Peer39, he built Peer39's Research and Development operations from a small core of developers to a global team of engineers and system architecture experts. Mr. Utmazgin manages the technology operations of Peer39's Israel Research and Development Center and R&D operations worldwide.

Dr. Jonathan Schler - CTO

Dr. Schler joined Peer39 from Nielsen Online where he served as VP of Research and Development responsible for key areas of the company's core research and innovation in the area text-mining solutions and computational linguistics. Prior to his work at Nielsen, Dr. Schler was VP of Research and Development of Trendum (acquired by Nielsen), and worked at Microsoft's Machine Learning and Anti-Spam Group. Before that he was an R&D group leader at Clear Forest, a leader in business solutions enabled by text extraction and text analytics (acquired by Reuters). Dr. Schler holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University, concentrating on machine learning, text categorization and classification, and natural language processing (NLP).

Prof. Moshe Koppel - Chief Scientist

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Koppel holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and is a former member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Prof. Koppel is an internationally renowned expert on machine learning and its application to text retrieval problems. He has published in a variety of research journals and holds numerous patents on machine learning, natural language processing and automated software solutions that gather, extract, analyze and understand information from text.

James Oppenheim - CMO

Mr. Oppenheim joined Peer39 from The Jerusalem Post where, as Director of New Media, he managed the strategy, implementation, and sales for JPost.com, the #1 online destination for Israel and Middle East news. Mr. Oppenheim worked with Amiad Solomon to establish Peer39's core business practices and is a key player in leveraging the company's technological advantages to maintain and expand its competitive market edge.

Hugh McGoran - Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales

Mr. McGoran joined Peer39 from Tacoda, where he was Vice President, Eastern Advertising Sales. Before Tacoda, he was with Knight Ridder Digital for ten years and served as Vice President, National Advertising, Real Cities Network. Mr. McGoran held positions of increasing responsibility related to Internet advertising and business development for more than 100 regional and vertical websites. Before that, he was Regional Vice President, Advertising, KnightRidder.com, and Advertising Manager and Director of Online Advertising at the Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News.