VP of Products & Operations at Snap Technologies, Inc.
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Vice President, Products & Operations at Snap Technologies, Inc.
- Member of the Advisory Board at ZIM Corporation (www.zim.biz)
- Past
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- VP, Product & Project Management at Spark Networks (www.spark.net)
- Director, Wireless Account Management, ICQ Mobile at AOL (www.aolmobile.com)
- Product Makering Manager, SW Applications at Galleo (www.galleo.com)
- Product Manager, Wireless at Contact Networks (www.contact.com)
- Sr. Software Engineer at Amdocs (www.amdocs.com)
- Tank Commander at R&D, Israeli Defence Forces
- Education
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- Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
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Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Summary
Entrepreneurial-oriented executive presenting a formidable record leading global product development teams within high paced, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, environments.
Broad experience and understanding of internet and mobile consumer applications and services. Specialist in community creation and management as well as online personals, search engines, subscription/paid content web sites, web usability, customers' life cycle management, mobile entertainment & instant messaging.
Proven record of driving new ideas and making them a reality. From definition through development to large scale deployments reaching tens of millions of users.
Have built, scaled and led teams, in both startups and mature companies.
Fluent in English and Hebrew.
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Specialties:
Product Management, Project Management, Account Management, Consumer Applications, Mobile Entertainment Applications, Mobile Instant Messaging, Online Community Creation and Management, Online Personals, Search Engines, Subscription Based Services, Web Usability, Information Architecture, Web Analytics, Customer’s Lifecycle management (acquisition, conversion, retention), Search Engine Optimization
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Experience
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Vice President, Products & Operations
Snap Technologies, Inc.
(Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching 19% of the US audience and over 45 million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Over 100 times per second, we reveal the content that users want, in the best form possible, and deliver it to them right where they are. Our Snap Shots products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create. Our Engage products help major content owners add depth to their own offerings and extend their reach across our network to build awareness, traffic and revenue. Together, they comprise a complete solution that’s helping to re-aggregate content and users in an increasingly fragmented Internet.
At Snap, Jay leads the Product Management, Project Management, UX & Design, Marketing, Business Analytics & Customer Support teams. -
Member of the Advisory Board
ZIM Corporation (www.zim.biz)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; ZIMCF; Wireless industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
ZIM Corporation is a leading direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment and mobile application company. ZIM publishes and licenses market-leading content, products and services in all major mobile categories, from personalized content and leading entertainment content, to information and community based mobile applications.
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VP, Product & Project Management
Spark Networks (www.spark.net)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOV; Internet industry)
August 2003 — July 2006 (3 years)
Spark Networks (formerly Matchnet) is a leading online personals service provider, operating more than 30 sites in the United States and internationally (JDate.com, AmericanSingles.com, Relationships.com, Date.ca, JDate.co.il, Cupid.co.il, BlackSingles.com and more).
I managed the product & project management group as well as the UI Design/Creative group. -
Director, Wireless Account Management, ICQ Mobile
AOL (www.aolmobile.com)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TWX; Internet industry)
July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Oversaw the account management group and managed large scale deployments of ICQ Mobile products at nearly 20 wireless networks worldwide, including Vodafone, O2, Rogers AT&T wireless, Telstra, SingTel and others.
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Product Makering Manager, SW Applications
Galleo (www.galleo.com)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)
Defining and supervising the SW applications (client and server) of a wireless cellular mobile multimedia communicator with internet capabilities. Gathering consumer requirements, defining needs and outlining MRDs.
Establishing connections and concluding agreements with cellular operators & distributors.
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Product Manager, Wireless
Contact Networks (www.contact.com)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
November 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Venture-backed startup in the network-enabled contact management arena.
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Sr. Software Engineer
Amdocs (www.amdocs.com)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DOX; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 5 months)
Member of the R&D department, worked on a Distributed Application Infrastructure.
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Tank Commander
R&D, Israeli Defence Forces
(Military industry)
1989 — 1992 (3 years)
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Education
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Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
Bachelor of Science, Industrial & Management Engineering, Information Systems Engineering, 1993 — 1997
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Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Honors:
• Time Magazine: 50 Coolest Websites of 2006, Web Search & Services, Snap.com
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222614,00.html
• Webbie Award, 2006: JDate.com won in the category of social networking.
www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-06.php
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