Management

Before Overture, Demas served as executive vice president of product development and marketing for Vividence Corporation (acquired by Keynote). Previously he held senior consumer product and enterprise business roles at Microsoft including its Encarta Encyclopedia and SQL Server groups. Demas began his career at IBM in technology sales. In addition to Turn, Demas serves on the board of directors of Advocates for Children (CASA of San Mateo County) and the advisory boards of DeviceVM and Digital Performance. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and bachelor's degrees in computer science and organization behavior & management from Brown University.

Before Claria, Dominic was Group Director, DB Marketing at Wunderman Cato Johnson, where he was responsible for the Sony, Citibank, and Pepsi accounts. Previously, he was Director of Quantitative Analysis at the Orvis Company. Dominic holds a bachelor's degree in Math and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and a master's degree in statistics from Yale University.

For six years prior to joining Turn, Dennis was the Senior Director of Finance and Administration and Corporate Controller for Claria Corporation, one of the pioneers in online advertising. Dennis was responsible for designing and implementing the financial and operational infrastructures at Claria, allowing it to achieve exponential growth over five years. Dennis received a bachelor of science degree in finance from San Jose State University.

Prior to Vibrant Media, Maureen was a Senior Sales Executive at Register.com working with Fortune 500 companies to build Register's presence in the domain category. Maureen also spent over 3 years at RealNames as a Channel Development Director, building sales programs and automated reseller tools for the largest Domain companies in Europe and the US. Maureen holds a bachelor's degree in International Economics from the University of California at Davis.

Previously, Masroor was an early member of the executive team at Efficient Frontier where he helped build and grow the company to profitability and leadership in the Search Engine Marketing space. At Efficient Frontier, Masroor built and led strategy, analytics, product operations and services organizations.

Prior to Efficient Frontier, Masroor joined Yodlee at a very early stage as a technology executive. At Yodlee, Masroor was instrumental in the successful completion of several company initiatives, including building the largest and most reliable aggregation platform, integrating an acquired company into Yodlee, and scaling engineering and operations through an offshore strategy. Masroor holds a patent in data aggregation technology and processes that ensure accuracy and reliability of data.

Masroor formerly spent several years in a variety of managerial and individual contributor roles in engineering at Amazon.com and Sybase. Masroor received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University.

Before Tacoda, Hugh was with Knight Ridder Digital for nearly nine years and held positions of increasing responsibility related to Internet advertising and business development for more than 100 regional and vertical websites. His most recent position there was Vice President, National Advertising, Real Cities Network. Hugh came to Knight Ridder from his previous role as Director of Interactive Advertising at Lorel Marketing in Philadelphia, PA. Hugh holds a BFA from Temple University.

For the last ten years, he has been doing research and development in machine learning and computational intelligence in both industry and academia. Prior to ID Analytics, Xuhui was a key member of the Falcon Technology team for payment card fraud detection and a Lead Scientist in the Technology Development Group at HNC Software (now Fair Isaac).

Xuhui is the lead inventor of multiple pending patents and is a recognized expert in the development and application of behavioral targeting design and analysis. He received his bachelor's and master's of science degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Prior to Turn, Philip held product director positions at MatchLogic, Excite@Home and PayChoice, where he developed many of the industry's first 3rd party ad serving platforms, rich media tools and CPM yield management systems for internet portals and top tier publishers. Having specialized in online advertising systems since 1997, Philip is a recognized industry expert on ad exchanges, behavioral targeting and performance optimization for display advertising. This background, combined with Turn's leadership in the emerging field of Demand Optimization, has made Philip a frequently requested speaker for industry events such as OMMA Global, OMMA Behavioral, OMMA AdNets, iMedia Breakthrough, eM9 and others, and a columnist-at-large for iMedia and other industry trade publications.

Originally from New York City, Philip now resides with his wife in the San Francisco bay area. Philip holds a bachelor's degree from the University at Buffalo, and an MBA from Columbia University and the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.