Management Team

Ryan Becker

VP Publisher Development

Ryan brings over 8 years of business development and management experience working with media and technology companies. He is recognized for his contributions at early stage companies, helping turn venture backed concepts into proven business opportunities.

Prior to joining ContextWeb, Ryan was responsible for creating distribution channels for the parent company of Undertone Networks, focusing on media partnerships with some of the largest online publishers. Ryan has also worked at two start-up technology companies, XDrive Technologies and 3Path, Inc. where he was responsible for strategy planning and business development. Ryan graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of Washington.

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Derek Brinkman

VP Product Management

Derek comes to ContextWeb with 7 years of experience in designing, building, and successfully marketing web applications aimed at a mass market audience. His knowledge of user-driven interaction design makes him an ideal leader for the ADSDAQ product line as ContextWeb widens its strategic focus to include the fat tail of both the Publisher and Advertiser markets.

Prior to joining ContextWeb, Derek worked at Register.com, Inc., a domain name registrar and web hosting company, where he was the Director of Product Management. Derek joined Register.com when it sold only domain names, and he built out the web hosting product line which included the do-it-yourself site builder WebSiteNOW!, technical web hosting, and a full-service professional site design service. Derek also led a major project to completely redesign the user experience of the purchase funnel and the account management system at Register.com.

Derek holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Anthropology from Columbia University.

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Biff Burns

VP Marketing

Biff brings over 25 years combined experience in marketing, advertising, branding and corporate communications. His background in marketing and online advertising qualify him to lead the ContextWeb Marketing Department with responsibilities for corporate and product branding, PR, publisher growth, sales support and other duties for the ADSDAQ™ exchange.

Prior to joining ContextWeb, Biff spent 7 years as VP of Marketing at Burst Media in Boston. Before Burst, Biff held the title of VP of Corporate Communications, where he managed the day-to-day ad agency relationship for the corporation and 7 Strategic Business Units. He is currently a member if the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and has been a Board member of The Boston Ad Club, Junior Achievement of Massachusetts, a member of the Ad Management Committee of the Association of National Advertisers, the Boston Interactive Marketing Association.

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Rajiv Kewalramani

VP Product Architecture and Development

Rajiv joined Contextweb in 2006, bringing with him over 15 years in development and architecture of software products.

Prior to joining Contextweb, Rajiv was with icarz, inc. where he architected and developed next generation products for the company. Rajiv has also led several full lifecycle projects for financial and retail clients including Moodys, Nymex, and Halmark.

Rajiv has a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University and is currently enrolled at the Stern Business School, New York where he is pursuing an MBA.

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Stephen Krikelis

VP Operations

Stephen joined ContextWeb in 2006 and brings many years of operations and analytics experience in the online advertising industry. His areas of expertise include managing advertiser delivery and optimization, organizing new product launches and successfully communicating to the technology team the current and future needs of advertisers and publishers.

Prior to joining ContextWeb, Stephen was the Director of Network Analytics at Direct Revenue, a contextual advertising firm, where he streamlined inventory management, set network pricing and successfully maximized the overall network monetization. Before that, Stephen held the position of a Financial Analyst at Thomson Financial and a Business Operations Manager at About.com.

Stephen holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Boston University.

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