Advisory Board
Greg Stuart
CEO, Project Rialto and former CEO of Interactive Advertising BureauGreg Stuart is the former CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The IAB is the premier industry bureau focused on helping web publishers and advertisers sell interactive advertising more efficiently and effectively. While CEO of the IAB, Greg led the online advertising industry from $6B in revenues in 2001 to $20B in 2007. Ad Age named Greg's book, "What Sticks #1", as "one of ten books you should have read in 2006".
Greg is now the CEO of Project Rialto, a stealth company seeking to completely transform ad targeting on the Internet, IPTV and mobile. Greg has 20+ years of experience in Internet start-ups and traditional advertising. Greg serves on the Board of Directors for Rapt, Inc. in San Francisco and recently Allyes in China. He is also on the Advisory Boards of Adify, Fraudwall, Tremor Media, Ad Infuse Veoh, Vizu, ZenZui and myYearbook -- plus non-profits SEMPO and IAB Mexico. Greg lives in Bridgehampton, NY. You can find Greg at http://www.gregstuart.com/.
Munjal Shah
CEO and Co-Founder, Like.comMunjal Shah is CEO and Co-Founder of Like.com, the first true visual search engine. Munjal co-founded Like.com in August 2004 (as Riya) when he realized he had over 38,000 digital photos and no way to search them for the photos he wanted.
Previously, Munjal was CEO and Co-Founder of the successful eBay seller auction management service, Andale. Munjal has an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, a BS from UCSD and was nominated one of the top 10 "Up and Comers" in Business week in 2001. He has previously worked for Baan, IBM and Blaxxun, and co-founded Round Zero, a Web 1.0 networking forum for early stage entrepreneurs. You can find Munjal at http://munjal.typepad.com/.
Greg Coleman
President of Platform AMr. Coleman possesses 25 years of experience in the media and publishing industries.
Before joining Platform A (AOL's advertising business), Mr. Coleman was CEO at NetSeer. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Yahoo!, where he helped establish the company's standing as a leader in the online advertising industry by driving yearly sales from $600 million to over $6 billion.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Coleman was Senior Vice President of Reader's Digest Association and President of U.S. Magazine Publishing, where he was responsible for the company's magazine properties including Reader's Digest, the largest magazine in the U.S. and in the world. During his 12-year tenure at Reader's Digest, he also served as Vice President and Worldwide Publisher and led the U.S.-based edition to four consecutive years of record advertising revenues and profitability.
Mr. Coleman was the founding publisher of Memories magazine at Diamandis Communications and worked at CBS, Inc., where he spent 10 years leading advertising efforts for Women's Day as Vice President and National Sales Manager.
Pradeep Guha
Venture Advisor at Nexus Venture Partners and Director of the International Advertising AssociationPradeep Guha has over 30 years of rich experience in various facets of the media industry. He is currently a Venture Advisor at Nexus Venture Partners, and also Director of the International Advertising Association. Until recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Zee Network, where he helped revive the groups flagship channel, Zee TVs fortunes, making it one of the most-watched channels in the country. Earlier, Mr. Guha was the President and Director of Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd where he successfully turned around its flagship newspaper and magazine brands (including The Times of India, Filmfare and Femina). He is credited with his brand-oriented sales approach that rewrote the game of media marketing. Today, Mr. Guha serves on the boards of several companies in the media and entertainment industry, including Mukta Arts, Future Media and Whistling Woods International.