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Key People

Management

Omar Hamoui, Founder & CEO

Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing mobile products. Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. While earning his MBA at the Wharton School, Omar began to think more seriously about the untapped potential of mobile advertising, and created AdMob to address this growing opportunity. Today, Omar has taken a leave from Wharton to focus on AdMob, and is now running one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the mobile world.
Email: omar at admob dot com.

Russell Buckley, Managing Director

Russell is one of the leading experts on mobile marketing in the world, having overseen nearly 2,000 campaigns since 2000. Russell is the co-author of MobHappy, one of the most popular mobile marketing and mobile technology blogs on the web. Before joining AdMob, Russell spent over 15 years working in marketing, including advising leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, Texaco and Mars. In 2000, he was recruited to be Director of Marketing of UK-based mobile marketing start up, ZagMe, one of the leading pioneers in mobile advertising. Russell learned about AdMob soon after the launch and immediately saw the potential. He gave up his consulting practice to join Omar and launch AdMob in the European market.
Email: russell at admob dot com.

Kevin Scott, Vice President of Engineering

Kevin is responsible for Admob software engineering and operations. Prior to Admob Kevin was a senior engineering manager at Google, holding leadership positions in both search and ads. Kevin's teams were responsible for launching substantial enhancements to search and for improvements to the ads system that yielded significant increases in revenue and ad quality. Kevin's time at Google also included M&A work for two successful acquisitions, establishment of the annual Google Faculty summit, and creation or co-creation of a number of leadership development and engineering education programs. Immediately prior to Google, Kevin was visiting researcher and instructor of computer science at the University of Goettingen in Goettingen, Germany. Kevin is an elected member-at-large of the ACM Council, founding member of the ACM Professions Board, and member of the ACM Education Board. Kevin is the recipient of an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, a Google Founder's Award, and an ACM Recognition of Service Award.
Email: kevin at admob dot com

Jason Spero, VP Marketing

As Vice President of Marketing Jason leads the team responsible for AdMob's marketing activities in more than 160 markets around the world. This includes building the AdMob Marketplace to serve the company's hundreds of advertisers and more than 5,000 publisher partners. Jason brings more than seven years of experience in the mobile space in product, marketing and general management functions. Before joining AdMob, Jason was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures where he focused on mobile applications, services and infrastructure. Prior to Redpoint, Jason was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Digital Chocolate where he was responsible for worldwide product, marketing and distribution. Previously Jason was a Director of Product Management at Openwave where he led their Client and Instant Messaging product teams. Jason holds a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Niren Hiro, VP Business Development

As Vice President of Business development, Niren is responsible for AdMob's strategic partnerships worldwide, and for the company's expansion into Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. He has 17 years of international experience at top Internet, mobile and media companies including Yahoo!, CBS Sportsline, MTV Networks, Plus Channel, & BPL Mobile (a France Telecom joint venture). Prior to AdMob, Niren led the investment and operating strategy for the Yahoo!'s Mobile division in Asia and the integration of Yahoo! Japan and Vodafone KK (Softbank Mobile). Niren has deep entrepreneurial roots. When he was 21 he founded a highly successful processed foods company in Japan, where he was born and raised, and today he is an angel investor in several promising mobile startups on different continents. Niren has a BS in Finance and a MBA from Boston University.

Jason Morse, Sr. Director of Product Marketing

Jason oversees product management and planning. Prior to AdMob, Jason spent 5 years at Yahoo! where he managed all aspects of their mobile browsing initiatives. In this capacity he was responsible for the product roadmap, monetization strategy and distribution relationships with device manufacturers and carriers worldwide. Under his leadership, Yahoo Mobile released several industry leading mobile web services and grew to become the #1 mobile portal in the US. Previously Jason held product management positions at eVoice (acquired by AOL Time Warner), Lucent Technologies, and was the first employee at MetaInfo (acquired by Check Point Software Technologies). Jason has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Washington.

Tony Nethercutt, VP of Sales

Tony is responsible for executing AdMob's revenue strategy, building the sales team and managing agency relationships. Tony is a leader in interactive advertising and considered an expert in both media and creative targeting with more than 20 highly successful years of sales experience. Prior to AdMob Tony was VP of Ad Sales at YouTube (acquired by Google) where he led the hypergrowth of the advertising sales team. Previously Tony was Director of Media Strategies at Yahoo!, VP of Business for Carat Interactive and managed the DoubleClick Network Sales office in San Francisco. His television advertising experience included managing the San Francisco office for New World/Fox Television Sales and doing local sales for both KGO-TV/ABC and KGTV/ABC. Tony earned his BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Cheryl Dalrymple, CFO

As the CFO of AdMob Cheryl is responsible for all financial aspects of the company, as well as HR, legal and administrative matters. Cheryl is a seasoned financial executive, who has worked with technology companies throughout her career. She has served as the CFO for multiple Silicon Valley startups and for a multi-billion dollar technology company. Prior to AdMob Cheryl was CFO of Digital Chocolate, an international publisher and distributor of mobile games. Cheryl was also CFO of Oblix (sold to Oracle) and Nextance (sold to Trilogy Group). Prior to this, Cheryl was SVP and CFO of the Lexis-Nexis Group, where she oversaw finance for all of Lexis-Nexis, including their online business and eight wholly owned subsidiaries. Cheryl began her career at Price Waterhouse (now PwC) where she held senior management roles in the High Tech Audit and the M&A groups for 10 years. She is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BBA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Board of Directors

Omar Hamoui

View bio above.

Jim Goetz

Jim Goetz is a Partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on enterprise systems, mobile software and enterprise and consumer technology enabled services investments. Jim currently serves on the board of Admob, Appirio, Clearwell Systems, Dash Navigation, Data Connection, Jive Software, Palo Alto Networks and Widgetbox. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partners where he led the investments in Entrisphere (ERIC), Peribit (JNPR), RGB, and Rhapsody (BRCD) and was part of the team responsible for BroadJump (MOTV), Timetra (ALA) and Topspin (CSCO). Earlier, Jim was a Founder of VitalSigns (LU) where he went on to serve as VP/GM of the VitalSoft division of Lucent. Prior to VitalSigns, Jim was the Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks. Prior to Bay and Synoptics, he held various product and marketing positions at AT&T, AT&T Bell Labs, and Digital Equipment. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Maynard Webb

As CEO, Maynard brings almost 30 years of experience developing and leading high-growth companies to his role at LiveOps. He joins LiveOps most recently from eBay where he served as Chief Operating Officer. At eBay, Maynard directed engineering and technology operations, product development, customer support, trust and safety, global billing, human resources, and legal functions.
Prior to eBay, Maynard was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Gateway, Inc. He has also held management and leadership positions at Bay Networks, Quantum Corporation, Thomas-Conrad Corporation and IBM. A respected member of the Silicon Valley technology community, Maynard sits on the boards of several successful companies, including Salesforce.com, Admob and Baynote. Maynard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University.

Richard Wong

Richard concentrates on mobile and broadband services software, as well as messaging and security investments. Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave. Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble. Rich holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an active Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship Program and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus.

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