David Jakubowski - Chief Executive Officer
David is a seasoned executive and industry expert on digital monetization, with a long history leading sales, business development, marketing, and product teams. His depth of experience in complex search and display platforms combined with his revenue focus and deep experience with the advertising community give David a unique foundation to build companies upon. David was the senior vice president of Specific Media, the largest freestanding global ad network. Prior to Specific Media, he was at Microsoft, where he was general manager of Microsoft adCenter and Search Strategy. In this role, he oversaw product marketing, product management, go-to-market, and monetization strategy. Before joining Microsoft, David was senior vice president of Quigo Technologies Inc., where he was responsible for building out the business units, expanding the client base, increasing revenue growth, and overseeing marketing and customer acquisition. Under his guidance, Quigo grew from a small startup to one of the largest search engine marketers in the space and one of Google Inc.'s largest competitors in the contextual space. David is a graduate of Binghamton University.

 

Pascal Bensoussan - Chief Strategy Officer
As the Chief Strategy Officer, Pascal is responsible for articulating and executing on the company's strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plans. With a solid expertise of the advertising industry and more than 15 years experience in product management, Pascal is a seasoned executive who brings the practical focus and discipline required to drive the company’s vision to reality. Prior to AK, Pascal was vice president of product management for Rapt, a publisher-centric yield optimization platform, which was acquired by Microsoft in April 2008. Pascal holds an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, an M.S. in Economics from ENPC (France), and a B.S. in Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (France).

 

Perry Nusbaum - Senior Vice President, National Sales
Perry has over 20 years of online sales, marketing, and management experience, most recently as senior vice president, agency relations, at Specific Media, where he was responsible for agency partnerships and joint ventures, as well as Eastern U.S. sales. Prior to Specific Media, he held the positions of senior account executive at 24/7 Real Media and senior director, business development, for United Online. Previous to his online advertising career, Perry founded The Head Gear Company, a provider of consumer electronics products that delivered CD quality sound to patrons of live events. While there, he was nominated for Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Perry has an undergraduate degree in history from State University of New York, Albany, and holds a J.D. from Albany Law School.

 

James Simon - Senior Vice President, Business Development
James will be building and integrating the AK Platform for DSPs, ad networks, and large publishers for Aggregate Knowledge. Previous to AK, he was SVP, business development, at IDG TechNetwork, where he launched and managed the IDG trading desk and was responsible for striking large global inventory deals with leading publishers, ad networks, DSPs and exchanges. Prior to IDG TechNetwork, James held CEO and senior management positions at several Internet companies, where he led business development, secured large data deals, restructured media buying, built brands, and raised capital. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College, Chicago.

 

Robert Zamzow - Vice President, Midwest Sales
Bob comes to Aggregate Knowledge with more than 10 years of experience in advertising and financial sales. Prior to joining AK, Bob served as vice president of Midwest sales at Specific Media where he opened the Midwest territory and grew it to become the company's highest-producing office. A seasoned strategist in digital advertising, Bob has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and industry trends, and his experience gives him a unique perspective on positioning within the competitive landscape of digital media. Before joining Specific Media, Bob was director of business development at ConsumerBase, leading search and display sales. Prior to his online advertising career, Bob honed his financial-management skills working at large investment firms in both the public and private sectors. Bob earned a B.S. in Finance from Illinois State University.

 

Douglas Grounds - Senior Vice President, Customer Success
Doug is responsible for leading the client delivery teams in deploying the AK platform services and ensuring our clients achieve success in their media campaigns. He has more than 12 years experience in online marketing and analytics, having successfully led implementation and sales engineering organizations at both Coremetrics (acquired by IBM) and Omniture (acquired by Adobe). At Omniture, Doug was an early manager through the company's rapid growth, from an initial 30 customers to over 5,000 customers and $400 million in revenues, IPO in 2006, and acquisition by Adobe in 2009. He most recently held the position as vice president of the worldwide sales engineering organization at Adobe, across all the company's product lines. Prior to discovering Internet marketing, he spent 12 years in the entertainment software business, leading product development teams at such companies as Strategic Simulations and New World Computing, was the Executive Producer of the 3DO Austin studio, and the founder and CEO of Lion Entertainment, Inc.

 

Rob Grzywinski - Chief Technical Officer
Rob has been an entrepreneur and CTO since 1995, when he bootstrapped his first consulting company with a credit card, successfully growing that company at its peak to over 90 employees. Previously, he held positions at Securant (which became part of RSA), EDS, and others, where he architected security software and lead teams developing e-commerce and outsourcing software. He has worked in diverse industries including online publishing, software security, collective intelligence, finance and trading. His expertise is in leading projects with short development cycles and limited resources while creating cohesive and rewarding environments for staff. Rob graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Physics.

 

Matt Curcio - Chief Scientist
At Aggregate Knowledge, Matt is in charge of "making the science work." This entails algorithm development for the massive data volumes at AK, wrangling the science team, and thought leadership for attribution modeling. Matt has been a startup scientist for 10 years, working in diverse fields such as machine learning, recommender systems, and simulation. His current interests are in very large data set manipulation and probabilistic algorithms. Matt received his M.S. from Brandeis University in computational neuroscience and a degree in Physics from Reed College.

 

Steve Linde - Vice President of Engineering
Steve spent much of the last decade developing some of the most widely adopted online consumer services. Most notably, he was the director of engineering at NexTag, where he led technical teams through several years of dramatic growth in site traffic, technical complexity, and team size, as that team scaled to meet the needs of millions of consumers. In addition to NexTag, Steve built a team responsible for engineering and product development of an award winning educational payment and rewards system for tweens, SmartyCard. Steve also spent several years at consumer-tech media giant CNET, managing and leading engineering teams responsible for launching a number of the company's most popular sites. Steve has a master's in computer science from Columbia University and received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

 

Dan Peterson - Vice President, Technical Operations
Dan heads up global technical operations, including site serving, systems administration, network administration, data centers, infrastructure architecture, and information security. He brings nearly 20 years of technical operations experience from some of the world's largest websites. Prior to AK, Dan led technical operations for hi5, one of the top 20 most trafficked websites. Before that, he was VP of technical operations at LookSmart, a premier search advertising network. He was previously director of operations for NextTag.com, a leading comparison shopping engine. Dan also spent five years at Wal-Mart.com as senior director of site operations and infrastructure. He started his career at Apple for 10 years, in various project management, developer support, and IT positions.