Team
The Advisory Board
David Rosenblatt
David Rosenblatt most recently served as President of Global Display Advertising at Google, Inc. from October 2008 to May 2009. Mr. Rosenblatt had joined Google in March 2008 in connection with Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, Inc., a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Previously, he joined DoubleClick in 1997 as part of the initial management team, and during his tenure he held several executive positions, including serving as CEO of DoubleClick from July 2005 through March 2008, and as President of DoubleClick from 2000 through July 2005. Prior to joining DoubleClick, Mr. Rosenblatt spent several years as an investment banker at S.G. Warburg & Co, in Hong Kong, London and New York. Mr. Rosenblatt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Gordon Crovitz
Gordon Crovitz was the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal as well as executive vice president of Dow Jones & Company. Under his leadership, “The Wall Street Journal Online” grew to more than 1 million paying subscribers, making it the largest subscription news site on the Web. He led numerous acquisitions, including those of MarketWatch.com, Private Equity Analyst and VentureOne. Mr. Crovitz received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and law degrees from the University of Oxford and Yale Law School.
Eytan Elbaz
Eytan Elbaz was a founding member of Applied Semantics (acquired by Google), the inventor of AdSense. Mr. Elbaz conceived the ideas for applying the company’s meaning based technology towards domain name selection and monetization, and towards contextual targeting, which became the core of Google’s publisher revenue model. He then served as Google’s Head of Domain Channel until 2007.
Jesse Dylan
Jesse Dylan is a filmmaker and creative director and CEO of FreeForm, a full-service production company focusing on corporate social responsibility and social media. The company works to translate potent thinking into content that moves people to act, and engages communities across the media landscape. In addition, he is a prolific director behind some of the most successful campaigns in commercial television, print, and interactive advertising; he has created award-winning commercials for clients that include Nike, Nintendo, Motorola, American Express, the NFL, and MTV.
Tim Hanlon
Tim Hanlon was most recently CEO/Managing Director of Velociter, the partnership and strategic investment arm of Mediabrands – the corporate media agency division of marketing services agency Interpublic Group. Mr. Hanlon was previously the EVP/Managing Director of Publicis Groupe’s VivaKi Ventures – the strategic partnership and investment arm of VivaKi, which he founded in 2008. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Georgetown University.
Prof. Moshe Koppel
A 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.