Yaron Samid

Current

Co-Founder & CMO at Pando Networks

Past

Co-Founder & President at DeskSite
Founder & CEO at Novadea
VP, Marketing at Zend Technologies

Director, Product Management at BackWeb Technologies
Marketing Manager at Register.com

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Education

Univ. of Maryland
Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

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Yaron Samid’s Summary

Yaron Samid has designed products and built companies that have empowered millions of people to create, consume, distribute and monetize digital media. His latest company, Pando Networks (www.pandonetworks.com), develops and markets the Internet's leading managed P2P content delivery service. With over 18 million users and major media customers, Pando is changing the way video is delivered online.

Yaron found his calling as an Internet entrepreneur after being fired from his first "real" job at a big-three PR firm for being "too creative". In early 1995 Yaron was a founding employee and one-man marketing department at then startup Register.com (NASDAQ: RCOM). His passion for new-media lead him next to “push technology” pioneer BackWeb (NASDAQ: BWEB). As director of product management, Yaron designed and launched the most widely used push-based media distribution applications in history, with over 50 million installations.

Yaron later served as VP Marketing for Zend Technologies before co-founding DeskSite to manifest his vision of the Internet's first video-ad supported PCTV Network in early 2002. Yaron grew the network to over 2 million viewers in just its first year. Experiencing firsthand the inherent cost and scale limitations of server-based video delivery at DeskSite, Yaron started Pando Networks in March of 2004 out of his NYC apartment. As Pando's CMO he was responsible for the company's overall product and market strategy and guided its award winning user experience design.

Yaron is an active hi-tech community leader, organizing two industry events in New York -- NY Video 2.0 (www.nyvideo.org), a 1,800 member monthly meetup of online video startups and media companies, and NY Israel Tech (www.nyisrael.org); a peer group of 500 Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs and professionals living in NYC. Yaron serves on the Board of Directors of Aprigo, is an advisor to several startups and an executive committee member at Tevel.org.

Yaron Samid’s Specialties:

New-media, p2p, video, media distribution, content delivery, push technology, video advertising, e-commerce

Yaron Samid’s Experience

Co-Founder & CMO

Pando Networks

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

March 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

www.pandonetworks.com
Co-Founder & President

DeskSite

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2003 — March 2004 (1 year 3 months)

www.desksite.com
www.50centdesksite.com
www.eminemdesksite.com
Founder & CEO

Novadea

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

October 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 6 months)

www.novadea.com
VP, Marketing

Zend Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 1 month)

www.zend.com
Director, Product Management

BackWeb Technologies

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BWEB; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — December 2001 (5 years)

www.backweb.com
Marketing Manager

Register.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; RCOM; Internet industry)

January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)

www.register.com