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Provides data on Internet audiences.
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Funding: | 53.2 |
Address: | 201 Third St, 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Mail: | contact@quantcast.com |
Company URL: | http://www.quantcast.com |
Quantcast is hiring path-pavers across all of our disciplines.
Launched in 2006, Quantcast measures and organizes the world's audiences in real-time so advertisers can buy, sell and connect with the people who matter most to them. Quantcast connects the planning, buying, and media fulfillment processes, delivering the marketplace's most consistent and accountable audiences. Based in San Francisco and New York with data centers around the globe, we are backed with over $53 million in funding from Founders Fund, Polaris Venture Partners, Revolution Ventures, Allen & Co. and Cisco Systems.
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Konrad Feldman - Co-founder & CEO
Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing.
Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world's financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace's North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.
Paul Sutter - Co-founder & President
Paul Sutter, President, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Konrad Feldman with a desire to apply his extensive knowledge of internet transaction processing to the digital media and advertising business.
Sutter has more than 15 years of high performance computing experience and has been instrumental in the development of Quantcast's distributed computing architecture, which is capable of processing upwards of 100 billion records per day.
Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Sutter founded the WAN optimization company Orbital Data, which was acquired by Citrix in August 2006. Previously, he had also founded Transium, an internet search services company, where prior to its acquisition by AltaVista in 2000, Sutter served as Vice President of Engineering. He held the same position at Voila Software, which was acquired by DEC. Sutter holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of West Virginia.
Todd Teresi - Chief Revenue Officer
Todd Teresi joined the Quantcast executive team in September 2008 as Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Teresi is responsible for Quantcast's business development activities and will be integral in the company's next phase of growth, specifically, the introduction of solutions that enable all market participants to more effectively leverage data, enable truly addressable advertising, increase yields and improve consumer experiences.
A visionary pioneer in the digital advertising industry, Teresi joined Quantcast after nearly 10 years at Yahoo! as Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s Publisher Network. Teresi contributed to the development of many of the company's highly innovative advertising, publisher network, and targeting capabilities, and helped drive strategic acquisitions, global operations and new business models during his tenure.
Teresi formerly served as chairman of the IAB's Measurement Guidelines Task Force, which developed a set of measurement and audit guidelines for counting online ad impressions.
Adam Gerber - Chief Marketing Officer
Adam Gerber joined Quantcast as Chief Marketing Officer in October 2007. In his role, Gerber is focused on establishing the company as a leading provider of audience addressability solutions across the advertiser supported digital media industry.
Most recently Brightcove, Inc.'s Vice President for Advertising Products and Strategy, Gerber joined Quantcast with almost 15 years of traditional and digital agency media planning and buying experience. After leading traditional planning activities for clients such as P&G, Unilever, Bell Atlantic, UPS, Labatt USA, and Goldman Sachs, he was a founding partner of WPP's Digital Edge unit (now MEC Interaction). Thereafter, he led the development of emerging and digital media capabilities for Publicis' MediaVest unit. A widely recognized leader in online and emerging advertising, Gerber has served in various industry advocacy roles, including committee chair positions with the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
Damian Reeves - Chief Technical Officer
Damian Reeves, Chief Technical Officer, is responsible for building and operating a reliable, resilient, high throughput and low-latency platform for the delivery of Quantcast's services. Reeves has more than 12 years of technical and entrepreneurial experience in creating and supporting extreme-performance Internet infrastructure, making him an experienced and valuable team member.
Prior to joining Quantcast, Reeves founded Zeus Technology, a leader in application traffic management and high-performance web infrastructure that was cited by Red Herring as one of the top 50 private companies in the world in 2000. As General Manager and CTO of Zeus, Reeves invented the company's core intellectual property and product set, ran the US operations and raised venture capital. A proven innovator, Reeves holds several patents in application traffic management, distributed systems and high-availability infrastructure. He holds a Masters Degree (Double First) in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, England.
Ron Bodkin - Vice President of Engineering
Ron Bodkin, Vice President of Engineering, leads product development, statistical modeling for lookalike targeting, and is responsible for large scale computing, product design, reliable operations, and rapid innovation.
Previously, Bodkin was the founder of New Aspects of Software, providing consulting on Aspect-Oriented Programming and enterprise architecture for Java. He also led the first implementation projects and training efforts for the AspectJ group at Xerox PARC. Prior to that, Bodkin was a founder and the CTO of C-bridge, an enterprise application consultancy that grew to 900 people and held a successful IPO in 1999. Bodkin holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from McGill University.
Advisory Board
Trevor Hastie
Dr. Trevor Hastie is Chairman and Professor, Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Hastie began his career in the statistics and data analysis research group at AT&T Bell Laboratories. After 9 years with Bell Labs, he returned to Stanford University in 1994 as Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics. Hastie's main research contributions have been in the field of applied nonparametric regression and classification, and he has written two books in this area: "Generalized Additive Models" (with R. Tibshirani, Chapman and Hall, 1991), and "Elements of Statistical Learning" (with R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, Springer 2001). He has also made contributions in statistical computing, co-editing (with J. Chambers) a large software library on modeling tools in the S language ("Statistical Models in S", Wadsworth, 1992), which form the basis for much of the statistical modeling in R and S-plus. His current research focuses on applied problems in biology and genomics, medicine and industry, in particular data mining, prediction and classification problems.
Hastie holds a B.S. from Rhodes University, M.S. from University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Jerome H. Friedman
Dr. Jerome H. Friedman is a Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Statistics and recognized as one of the world's leading researchers in statistics and data mining. He has been a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University for nearly 20 years and has published on a wide range of data-mining topics including nearest neighbor classification, logistical regressions, and high dimensional data analysis. His primary research interest is in the area of machine learning.
Friedman holds an A.B. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
David Rosenblatt
David Rosenblatt, Google Inc.'s former President of Global Display Advertising, has joined Quantcast's advisory board. Prior to his role at Google, Mr. Rosenblatt spent 11 years at DoubleClick, where he rose through the management ranks to become chief executive after holding several executive positions within the company, including President. Upon building DoubleClick into one of the world's leading ad management platforms, he helped engineer the $3.1 billion sale of the advertising technology company to Google in 2007 and was then tapped to shepherd Google's entry into display advertising. In his role there, he managed both the integration of DoubleClick into Google and the establishment of Google's display strategy. 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.