Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lookery
Greater Boston Area
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- Member, Board of Directors at Geezeo
- Advisor at Sonian Inc.
- Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lookery
- Advisor at Compete, Inc.
- Advisor at Visible Measures
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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, now a part of Taylor Nelson Sofres [LON:TNS]. Before Compete I was the CTO of BuyerZone.com, now a part of 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 Experience
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Member, Board of Directors
Geezeo
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (11 months)
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Advisor
Sonian Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (11 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 (1 year 2 months)
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; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Compete provides consumer and marketing services based on quantitative data about how websites are used.
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Advisor
Visible Measures
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 3 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; 51-200 employees; Market Research industry)
October 2000 — July 2007 (6 years 10 months)
Compete provides consumer and marketing services based on quantitative data about how websites are used.
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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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