Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lookery
Greater Boston Area
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- Advisor at Shareaholic
- Member, Board of Directors at Geezeo
- Advisor at Sonian Inc.
- Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lookery
- Advisor at Compete, Inc.
- Advisor at Visible Measures
- Past
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- Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Compete, Inc.
- Chief Technology Officer at BuyerZone.com
- Founding Member - Lycos Advanced Product Development Research Group at Lycos.com
- Chief Architect at Bolt.com
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David Cancel’s Summary
I am the co-founder & CTO of Lookery.com. Before starting Lookery I started Compete.com where I was the CTO; acquired by Taylor Nelson Sofres / WPP [LON:WPP]. Before Compete I was the CTO of BuyerZone.com, acquired by Reed Elsevier [NYSE: RUK]. In the late 90’s I was a part of the founding team of Bolt.com & part of Lycos.com. I’m originally from New York City and now live in the Boston, MA area with my superstar wife and daughter.
In addition to Lookery I sit on the board of directors of Geezeo.com and the advisory boards of Compete.com, Visible Measures, MyPerfectGig, Sonian Networks and Swift.
David Cancel’s Specialties:
Making something from nothing, web analytics, social computing, massively parallel distributed systems, crawling and classification systems, privacy
David Cancel’s Experience
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Advisor
Shareaholic
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you're on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service
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Member, Board of Directors
Geezeo
(Financial Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Geezeo combines free, easy-to-use online personal finance tools with the power of social networking to provide the resources and motivation consumers need to achieve their financial goals.
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Advisor
Sonian Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Sonian has developed a next generation hosted archive service utilizing cloud-based compute and storage infrastructures to deliver an affordable, easy to use, archive solution.
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Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Lookery
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Lookery is an online advertising network that makes money for content publishers and social networks using anonymous, hard-data user profiles.
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Advisor
Compete, Inc.
(Privately Held; Market Research industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness. Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective websites and more targeted advertising campaigns. Compete’s products include online measurement tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries.
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Advisor
Visible Measures
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Visible Measures Corp. (VMC) enables Internet TV publishers, platforms, and advertisers to deeply measure and analyze how users experience and engage with specific moments within a video.
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Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Compete, Inc.
(Privately Held; Market Research industry)
October 2000 — July 2007 (6 years 10 months)
Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness. Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective websites and more targeted advertising campaigns. Compete’s products include online measurement tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries.
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Chief Technology Officer
BuyerZone.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)
BuyerZone is the leading online marketplace for buyers and sellers of business products and services.
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Founding Member - Lycos Advanced Product Development Research Group
Lycos.com
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)
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Chief Architect
Bolt.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; gofh.ob; Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
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