Management Bios

Yoav Shaham, CEO & Founder

Bryan Everett, Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development

Assaf J Henkin, Vice President Product & Founder

Mathew R Haugen, Vice President Sales

Itai Brickner, Vice President Research & Development

Yoav Shaham is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kontera, the leading provider of In-Text Advertising Solutions, based on patent- pending contextual analysis technology. Prior to founding Kontera, Yoav led Internet start-ups that enabled advertisers to reach users in contextually relevant, non-search environments. Looking to the future, Kontera is developing media-agnostic solutions which will enable advertisers to engage with users on contextually relevant content, whether appearing on mobile screens, via Interactive TV or through another interface. Yoav is a graduate of Tel Aviv University with a degree in Economics and Law.

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Bryan Everett joined Kontera as SVP, Sales & Business Development in September 2006. In this role, he leads Kontera´s sales, business development, service and marketing efforts required to drive advertising and publisher revenue growth. Bryan has 15 years of sales and sales management experience with a concentration in online advertising and search marketing. Prior to joining Kontera, Bryan served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations for LookSmart, Ltd, where he led the paid listings and publisher services business units.  Before LookSmart, Bryan served as Vice President of Sales for Twelve Horses, overseeing all domestic sales and sales operations, and before Twelve Horses, Bryan was Vice President of West Coast Sales for 24/7 Real Media, where he led regional media and sales for search and technology. He has also held a variety of sales and sales management positions at Katz Media Group, Charles Schwab and Northwestern Mutual Life. Bryan holds an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and a B.A. in international business from Lehigh University.

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Assaf J. Henkin is responsible for product management and product operations. Mr. Henkin brings more than 10 years of experience in web-based products ranging from e-commerce to online advertising and content. Prior to co-founding Kontera, Mr. Henkin served as a technical lead on several large scale e-commerce applications at iXL, Inc. a leading interactive consulting firm. Mr. Henkin graduated from San Francisco State University with a BS in Computer Information Systems (Magna Cum Laude) and holds an MBA from the Joint Executive MBA Program at Kellogg, Northwestern University and Recanati, Tel Aviv University.

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Mathew R Haugen brings 9 years of sales management experience within the online advertising space. Prior to joining Kontera Haugen was an Ad Director at Jupiter Media (formerly Internet.com), and pre-dating Jupiter Media, Mathew was Online Advertising Sales Manager for Citysearch; a division of TicketMaster/USA Networks. Haugen holds a BsC in Business Administration/ Marketing from San Diego State University.

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Itai Brickner is responsible for the research and development of Kontera´s technology. He joined the company in 2002 and was responsible for developing the platform from the concept phase.  Prior to  joining Kontera Mr. Brickner served in technical lead positions in several tech companies including TTI Telecom, Contact Networks and Informative Ltd. Mr Brickner brings practical and managerial experience in Java and C++ server technologies, in-depth knowledge in communication protocols and practical and academic experience in natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Mr. Brickner holds a BS in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, and has attended graduate studies at UC Berkley’s School of Information.

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