Management Team OF Kontera

	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.
	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.
	Chris Karl Senior Vice President, US Sales
Chris runs North Amercian Sales for Kontera, managing a strategic and solutions oriented team focused on delivering results for clients and topline revenue growth for Kontera. Chris was a Regional Vice President of Sales for Yahoo where he grew and managed $250M Search, Display and Mobile advertising sales in the Northeast Sales region. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Chris was the VP and General Manager of the Interactive and Print Media divisions of Alloy, Inc., a youth media and marketing company. He started his media career at MTV Networks and took his first job in online media with PointCast in 1996. He brings 19 years of experience in building teams, developing online marketing strategies for Fortune 500 companies, and entrepreneurial vision to the team. He is a graduate of The University of New Hampshire and received B.S. in Marketing and Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
	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 Senior Vice President, Publisher Network and Delivery
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.