Kiran Hebbar // Board Member

Kiran Hebbar is a General Partner at Valhalla Partners. He has over ten years of technology, software development and marketing experience in companies spanning software, Internet, and technology-enabled services domains.

Prior to joining Valhalla Partners, Kiran was the Director of Product Management at RichFX, a venture-backed rich media applications company targeting e-commerce retailers. He orchestrated the conceptualization, development and market launch of RichFX’s SaaS platform. Before RichFX, Kiran was a Product Manager at Siebel Systems where he managed CRM products for high-tech, semiconductor and industrial manufacturing verticals. He began his career as a software engineer at Bentley Systems, a leading Computer-Aided Design software company.

Kiran has an MBA from the Wharton School. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and an M.S. from the University of Maryland, both in Mechanical Engineering. Kiran is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

Moshe Mor // Board Member

Moshe Mor joined Greylock Partners in 2000. His areas of focus include: software, mobile and e-commerce.

Previously, Mor spent eight years at SPL WorldGroup, a leading international provider of enterprise software and services. He was a member of SPL’s founding team; from 1995 he led it as its CEO through rapid expansion to reach 1,000 employees and $150 million in revenues worldwide. Prior to SPL WorldGroup, Mor held management positions in software companies in diverse stages, from start-ups to large established players. He also served six years in the Israeli Army as a Captain in the Military Intelligence branch.

Mor holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

David Blumberg // Board Member

David Blumberg is the Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital. David has been investing in early stage technology companies for more than 24 years. His current investment focus includes Digital Media, Social Media, Mobility, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services and Internet.

Prior to founding Blumberg Capital in 1991, David managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price Associates. David launched the business development efforts for Check Point Software Technologies.

David earned his AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD. David speaks French and is proficient in Hebrew and Spanish.

David serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of CaseStack,DoubleVerify, Correlix, isocket, Hootsuite Media, and Legolas Media. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Past Investments: Check Point Software Technologies [CHKP], Teva [TEVA], Creo – Acquired by, Eastman Kodak [EK], DSP Group [DSPG], Electronics For Imaging [EFII], AbirNet – Acquired by Computer Associates [CA], Conduct Software – Acquired by Hewlett Packard [HPQ], Allerez – Acquired by Hewlett Packard [HPQ], Vista Research – Acquired by McGraw Hill [MHP], IP Infusion – Acquired by ACCESS Co., Ltd. [TSE:4513], and Siperian – Acquired by Informatica [INFA].

Joe Doran // Board Member

Joe Doran is a seasoned and accomplished senior executive with 15 years of experience managing interactive media, advertising and social media solutions in high growth companies such as Microsoft, General Mills and Media6Degrees. Dornan is a sought after expert in interactive advertising, advertising technology and social media.

Doran was the founding CEO of Media6Degrees, Inc., a New York based advertising technology start up that provides major brand marketers with custom audiences using the power of social graph data. Under his leadership, Media6Degrees was able to move from a prototype to having over 90 advertising customers, 40 social insight partnerships and 3 strategic partnerships while raising $12.5M in venture capital.

Prior to Media6Degrees, Doran spent 9 years at Microsoft in a variety of senior roles including Chief of Staff at MSN and, from 2003 to 2008, General Manager of Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. Earlier career achievements include serving as Brand Group Manager at General Mills, technical sales manager & an Infantry Captain in the US Army. Doran has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s in Chemistry from United States Military Academy.

Barak Pridor // Board Member

Barak Pridor is a seasoned media and technology executive, with over 20 years of experience in building early stage companies into market leaders, as well as senior leadership positions within large, global corporations. Acting as Executive Chairman, Barak is leveraging his experience to assist in the fast growth of Legolas.

Since the beginning of 2011, Pridor has been assisting early stage companies and executives in strategy and corporate development. Prior to this time, Barak served as an Executive Vice President at Thomson Reuters, focusing on formulating and executing the company’s emerging New Media strategy. In 2007, Thomson Reuters acquired ClearForest, the software startup Barak was leading as CEO, where he established a strong market position and raised $30 million of capital during his tenure.

Greylock Partners is a private venture capital firm, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. Today, Greylock has operations in the Bay Area, Boston, China, India and Israel. For 45 years we have provided capital and support to hundreds of companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their industries. Of these companies, over 150 have become publicly traded and more than 100 have gone on to successful mergers.

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Blumberg Capital is a classic, early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in innovative and disruptive Digital and Social Media, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services, Mobile Technology and Internet companies. We strive to collaborate with exceptionally talented entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas and scalable business models to drive innovation and economic growth. Blumberg Capital initially invests between $100K and $2.5M in Seed and Series A rounds and can participate in follow-on rounds up to $6M per company. We structure syndicates with other like-minded groups to increase reach and reduce risk for our investees. Our global team brings industry expertise, relevant operational experience and strategic relationships to be a value added investor.

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Valhalla Partners is a partner and advisor to technology entrepreneurs in their quest to build world-class companies. Based in Vienna, Virginia, the firm’s management team has made more than 120 investments over the past twenty years and produced over $1 billion of investment proceeds. Valhalla prefers investments where the mission of the company is to innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new and existing markets. Investments by Valhalla’s team include Advertising.com, CareerBuilder.com, Clarify, EnterpriseDB, Epicor, Exchange Solutions, JumpTap, LeftHand Networks, Mobius, NextLink, Nirvanix, Progress Software, Proxicom, RealOps, Register.com, Riverbed Technologies, SafeNet, SEPATON, ServiceBench, TidalTV, Trilogy, and webMethods. Valhalla Partners brings the full power and network of its experienced team to every investment it makes, helping companies grow faster and smarter regardless of size or maturity.

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Jonathon Shaevitz // CEO

Jonathon Shaevitz is a serial entrepreneur having successfully launched seven technology related companies. He brings more than 20 years of experience developing fast growing companies. Prior to joining Legolas Media, Shaevitz spent three years growing Maxifier, a successful ad tech company focused on providing publishers with inventory optimization and yield management.

Jonathon’s engagements have ranged from developing strategic partnering strategies, to creating and implementing advertising supported business lines. He has overseen development and implementation of new business strategies, successfully developed and executed customer acquisition programs, as well as overseen the launch of new media properties, from concept to design to content strategies to marketing on through to site launch.

Jonathon holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS from the University of Michigan.

Ran Cohen // co-founder, president

Ran Cohen is a practical innovation expert with the ability to create exciting vision and turn it into a business reality. For more than 14 years, Cohen has applied his business and product development skills to build new opportunities for leading interactive brands. In the past 8 years Cohen was responsible for multiple breakthrough innovations in online advertising. As VP Product and Business Development at Eyeblaster / MediaMind he spearheaded the product strategy and was responsible for the vision and the management of new products introduction including the flagship platform – MediaMind. At Legolas Media, Cohen developed the vision for the first programmatic premium platform and oversees key aspects of the business and operations to support growth through effective planning and foresight.

Prior to founding Legolas, Cohen served as VP Product & Business Development at Eyeblaster / MediaMind. Cohen also held senior business development positions at various digital companies where he managed teams and projects in consumer facing mobile applications, IPTV and instant messaging. Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hebrew University and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Yiftah Frechter // Co-Founder, CTO

Building innovative and sound technologies that answer market needs are what drive Yiftah Frechter’s vision and energy in the digital space. Frechter brings more than 13 years of engineering and management expertise to Legolas Media, where he leads the company’s technology and operations solutions.

Prior to founding Legolas, Frechter served as VP Research & Development at Eyeblaster /MediaMind where he managed the company’s 70+ engineering team and revolutionized the development capabilities of the company. In that capacity Frechter was responsible to the development and introduction of multiple breakthrough products including the company flagship platform – MediaMind.

Earlier in his career Frechter served as Group Manager at a startup company that developed an ISP ad server, and as a Senior R&D manager at Hewlett Packard.

Michael Hegarty // vp, media sales

A veteran of the online marketing industry, Michael’s background includes digital media sales and management experience dating back to 1998 with positions at Jumbo! and Internet.com. Before joining Legolas Michael was Director of East Coast and Midwest Sales at Netmining where he was responsible for bringing their audience targeting platform to the U.S market. Michael also has pioneering digital agency and technology roots with more than six years at 360i and SearchIgnite (now IgnitionOne) driving new business efforts. Michael’s consultative and value driven approach has helped bolster company revenues and educate client partners on how best to engage consumers in the challenging and ever-changing digital media landscape.

In his current role as the VP of Media Sales, Michael is responsible for leading Legolas Media sales, working with Fortune 500 marketers and their agency partners throughout the US.

Mr. Hegarty holds a BA in Finance from the Purdue School of Business at Salisbury University.

Ronit Fuchs // Chief Scientist

With 18 years of professional experience in computers, technology, and mathematics, Fuchs is an accomplished mathematical theorist with several publications and lecture credits in multiple countries. Combining statistics, analysis and data, she is a master at translating large sums of data into actionable business decisions.

Most Recently, Fuchs earned a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. A Magna Cum Laude Graduate with a Masters in Science at Tel Aviv University, other past credits include Development at Economy.com, System Analyst at Leumi Card, and Computer Programmer at Alfa-Card, as well as System Analyst at the Israeli Defense Forces.