Management

Mark Carlson, CEO

Mr. Carlson co-founded SimpleFeed in 2004 and has served as its CEO since its inception. Previously Mr. Carlson was CFO at First to File, an enterprise software company he sold to MarkMonitor. Prior to First to File Mr. Carlson was General Manager of the Internet Security Group of CyberMedia, a public company later acquired by Network Associates. Mr. Carlson came to CyberMedia as a result of its acquisition of Walk Softly, Inc., where he was Founder and CEO. At Walk Softly Mr. Carlson lead marketing and development of Guard Dog, an Internet privacy and security product that became a PC Data Top 10 product. Prior to Walk Softly, Mr. Carlson was CFO and Vice President of Business Development at Digital Pictures. Mr. Carlson began his career in the technology investment banking departments of Montgomery Securities and PaineWebber. Mr. Carlson graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Alik Eliashberg, EVP & CTO

For the past 14 years Mr. Eliashberg has held a variety of technology and senior management positions, including being an early member of three successful startups. Previously he was VP of Engineering at MetaReward, Inc (online direct marketing company). As a member of the founding team of MetaReward, he built the engineering organization, responsible for designing, deploying, and managing daily operations of a large (MediaMetrix100) website. Prior to MetaReward, Mr. Eliashberg held a variety of senior technology and management roles at Resonate, Inc (enterprise software company). He joined Resonate early on as an engineer and over time became responsible for all daily operations of the engineering department. Prior to Resonate, Mr. Eliashberg was the first employee at NetDynamics, Inc., where he designed and implemented NetDynamics Application Server - one of the first application servers on the market. Prior to that Mr. Eliashberg held a variety of full-time and contract positions as a software engineer in fields like database system design, real-time control, and POS/warehouse management systems. Mr. Eliashberg graduated from University of California, San Diego.