Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy

Current

• CEO and Co-Founder at Summize, Inc.

Past

• Sr. Tech Mgr at AOL, Inc.
• CEO and Founder at LocalEyes Corporation
• Eastern Regional Manager at Yamaha Systems Technology, Inc.

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy’s Summary

An energetic and creative entrepreneur with a proven track record to build and lead software development organizations which are adept at managing innovation, complexity and change. Significant experience with strategic planning and Internet Search business models.

Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy’s Specialties:

Web + Vertical Search (Local Search, Personal & Social Search, News Search, Community Search, Audio & Video Search, Shopping Search), Crawling, SEO, Data Mining + Visualization, Information Architecture, Information Retrieval (IR), Investor Relations (IR), Business Development, Bottom-up Marketing, Sentiment Analysis, Technical Management

Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy’s Experience

• CEO and Co-Founder

  Summize, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

• Sr. Tech Mgr

  AOL, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  September 2000 — May 2007 (6 years 9 months)

  Built team to develop & deploy AOL’s core search indexing technology
  -Replaced legacy indexing and retrieval technology with new industry standard technology
  -Led adoption of agile and iterative software development life cycle
  
  Successfully launched following key services at AOL:
  -AOL Search
  -Singingfish.com / Windows Media Search (Won Webby Award)
  -CNN Site Search
  -AOL News Search
  -AOL Journals Search / Hometown Search
  
  Successfully deployed LocalEyes Local Search technology.
  -Led team to integrate proprietary geographic search into AOL’s technology

• CEO and Founder

  LocalEyes Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1996 — August 2000 (4 years 5 months)

  Conceived of Local Search product, sold company to AOL in August 2000
  -Wrote business plan, raised $3M in debt & equity funding
  -Recruited and led the development team to execute product vision
  -Managed investor relations
  -Managed administrative, legal and finance activities
  -Built co-marketing relationships with Lycos and Altavista
  -Multiple patents awarded for local search technology
  -Patents pending for MySpider personal search technology

• Eastern Regional Manager

  Yamaha Systems Technology, Inc.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 1990 — April 1996 (6 years 2 months)

Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  MSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1986 — 1988

Additional Information

Ajaipal "Jay" Virdy’s Websites:

• My Company