Kontera delivers highly relevant In Text Advertising for advertisers and publishers, providing innovative Online Advertising solutions.

Management Bios

	Yoav Shaham CEO and Co-Founder Yoav is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kontera, the leading provider of In-Text Advertising Solutions. Throughout the past five years Yoav has methodically grown Kontera’s technology, network, and organization. Under his leadership Kontera has become a leading technology provider and a rapidly growing advertising network. Kontera’s platform reaches more than 100 million monthly unique users, and serves more than 15,000 publishers. Kontera’s patented contextual analysis technology analyzes more than 85 million page views, in real-time, each day. Yoav brings more than 10 years of technology, internet, and online advertising experience to Kontera. Prior to founding Kontera Yoav led Internet start-ups, that enabled advertisers to reach users in contextually relevant, non-search environments. Yoav is a graduate of Tel Aviv University with a degree in Economics and Law.
	Hal Muchnick President As Kontera's President, Hal is responsible for sales, services, business development, account management and field operations at Kontera. In his most recent position, Hal served as Executive Vice President / General Manager at Operative, a global advertising resource management (ARM) platform provider, where he oversaw global sales, consulting, professional and client services. Previously, Hal served as Vice President, Global Sales and Account Management for DoubleClick, where he was responsible for revenue and customer growth in the web publisher, interactive agency, and Rich Media segments. Prior to DoubleClick, Hal was Chief Operating Officer of LowerMyBills.com, where he was responsible for technology, product, sales and marketing. Previously he spent over 10 years at Experian, which he helped evolve from a TRW operating unit into a stand-alone global marketing information services company.
	Ammiel Kamon Executive Vice President, Marketing Ammiel brings 19 years of marketing, technology, products and Internet leadership experience to Kontera. Previously he was the Vice President of Marketing at Rearden Commerce, and the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products at Emptoris, where he was instrumental in attaining market leadership and establishing the company’s challenger brand. Earlier in his career Ammiel served as a Vice President and business unit general manager at Netscape Communications, which he joined in the company’s first year of operations. During his five years with Netscape, Kamon also led marketing for Netscape’s e-commerce products which accounted for more than 30 percent of revenues, and he served as strategic marketing lead and Director of Technology in the CTO’s office. Prior to joining Netscape Ammiel held several leadership positions with Oracle Corporation. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Business from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Bryan Everett Executive Vice President, Strategic Development Bryan joined Kontera as Senior Vice President Sales & Business Development in September 2006. In this role, he led Kontera’s sales, business development and services efforts to drive significant 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 as Vice President of West Coast Sales for 24/7 Real Media, where he led regional media and sales for search and technology. Earlier in his Career he 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.
	Assaf Henkin Executive Vice President Products, and Co-Founder Assaf is a co-founder of Kontera and has led product management and product operations since inception. Under his leadership Kontera’s products and network have grown to more than 100 Million unique visitors per month, spanning more than 15,000 publishers. Assaf has more than 11 years of experience in web-based products ranging from e-commerce to online advertising and content platforms. Prior to co-founding Kontera he served as a technical lead on several large scale e-commerce applications at iXL, Inc., a leading interactive consulting firm. Assaf is a globally recognized expert on semantic analysis products, delivering in-context information, and Internet advertising. He 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.
	Yaron Garmazi CFO Yaron joined Kontera as CFO in April 2008. Yaron brings 15 years of senior financial management experience. Prior to joining Kontera, Yaron served as CFO at leading technology companies where he led both public offerings and several significant mergers and acquisitions, including: Passave which was acquired by PMC- Sierra (PMCS), Ness Technologies Inc.(NSTC) which he took public on the NASDAQ in 2004, and Nogatech Inc. where he led the IPO process on the NASDAQ in 2000 and the subsequent acquisition by Zoran Inc.(ZRAN). Yaron is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Tel–Aviv College of administration.
	Ayelet Levav Vice President, Human Capital Ayelet comes to Kontera with more than 14 years of multinational experience in human capital management, consulting and business. Previously she was Vice President of Human Resources at Telrad Networks, and held senior positions at Hay Group, Viola Networks and Amdocs. During her time at Amdocs, her focus was on enabling rapid growth through effective organic on-boarding and accretive M&A transactions. In her five years with the company, it grew from 6,000 to more than 10,000 employees. Ayelet was responsible for Global Human Resources. She also led the Human Capital function within Amdocs’ global M&A team, playing an active role in managing large scale acquisitions, from initial planning through successful integration, in both the US and Europe. She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in political science and labor studies.
	Mathew R Haugen Vice President, Business Development Mathew 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.
	Itai Brickner Vice President, Research & Development Itai is responsible for the research and development of Kontera´s technology. He joined the company in 2003 and was responsible for developing the platform from the initial concept phase. Under his leadership Kontera’s technology has scaled to analyze more than 85 million page views, in real-time, per day. Prior to joining Kontera Itai 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. Itai holds a BS in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, and has attended graduate studies at UC Berkley’s School of Information.