Eyal Keren

Entrepreneur, Experienced Internet Ecommerce Executive

Location: Israel
Industry: Internet

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Eyal Keren's Overview

Current

Head of eCommerce at Waves Audio
Founder & CEO at Keren Media

Past

VP Marketing & Business Development at WinBuyer
VP Business Development at Pudding Media
Director of Business Development at A9.com, an Amazon.com Company

Investment Professional at Pitango Venture Capital
Marketing Manager at IBM

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Education

University of Rochester - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University

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Connections

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Highly effective and results-driven marketing and business development executive with extensive experience in the technology space and specific expertise in growing Internet ventures. Proven track record of successfully planning, executing and managing business initiatives. Strong background developing branding and strategy, outbound and online marketing and leading key deals including, strategic partnerships, venture capital investments and M&A. Highly motivated and entrepreneurial, with wide range of skill sets required to manage in dynamic environments.

Ongoing role as the founder & CEO of Keren Media Inc. an online content company focused on developing solutions that empower entrepreneurs. Initial product is www.investmentslides.com, an investor presentation template offering a very practical tool designed to help the entrepreneur develop very effective investor presentations.

Specialties

-Cutting-edge opportunities in eCommerce, search, content and online advertising
-Internet business models - expertise in monetization models
- Marketing expertise: branding, outbound and online marketing
-Market landscape analysis / strategic positioning
-Business development for early-stage businesses - driving new business initiatives
-Partnerships & alliances management
-Mergers and acquisitions
-Venture capital investments

Head of eCommerce

Waves Audio

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

August 2011 – Present (6 months) Tel Aviv, Israel

Advising Waves Audio (the Grammy Award Winner leading software developer in the music recording and production space) on online marketing, conversion optimization, traffic generation, search & advertising promotions, and social media initiatives.

Founder & CEO

Keren Media

March 2008 – Present (3 years 11 months)

Developing Innovative self expression and content generation solutions

VP Marketing & Business Development

WinBuyer

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

June 2009 – August 2011 (2 years 3 months)

Leading marketing and business development for WinBuyer an innovative value-added retail monetization platform that enables online retailer to increase sales conversions and maximize page revenues by accelerating consumer purchasing behavior at the point of sale.

VP Business Development

Pudding Media

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

December 2006 – March 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Ad network service for voice communications

Director of Business Development

A9.com, an Amazon.com Company

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AMZN; Internet industry

July 2005 – December 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Managed partnerships and strategic alliances for A9.com, was responsible for business development for Amazon's search and advertising businesses.

Investment Professional

Pitango Venture Capital

Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry

August 2000 – July 2005 (5 years)

Recommended investment opportunities to Pitango, the largest venture capital fund in Israel, with managed assets over $1 Billion. Represented the fund in the Silicon Valley in support of portfolio companies and target investment opportunities.
Active on the board of several portfolio companies