Usually though, we dabble more with ideas in content discovery, advertising, online videos and other such things that we all use every day on the internet.

Rajiv is our CEO. He’s an entrepreneur who’s excited about seeing things from a different point of view. Some times it leads to products and companies and other times it leads to fun stories.

He’s been the CEO of Amperion Inc., a smart energy company, in the past and a Partner at Global Internet Ventures, a VC firm.

We hate his tendency to hog the white-board…

Leora leads Business Development at Personalized Media, bringing over 15 years of experience in the online publishing and advertising world. She was part of the team that launched the Internet pioneering CNN.com, advised for Ad:tech and now serves on the advisory board of APPNATION.

When not pursuing new relationships in the industry (if she doesn’t know you yet – please email her here!) Leora’s busy tending to her other passions: raising her twins, rooting for the Springboks rugby team and being heartbroken by Liverpool.

She has a degree in English and Communications from the University of South Africa.

Marc has been at Personalized Media from day one being a linguist to his fellow engineers and a technologist for the bizdev team. He is always somewhere in the middle, thinking big data analysis while doing linux sys admin, and talking to Dima, our front end guy, about some stupid cross browser issue (why oh why does Internet Explorer exist?).

Before Personalized Media, Marc obtained a PhD in what can best be described as “applied computational linguistics”, and he also clocked in about five years of post doctoral research at a variety of institutes in the USA and The Netherlands. At the start of Personalized Media, Marc and his family lived in Pittsburgh, PA, enjoying Western Pennsylvania to the fullest (Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is truly a miracle). Nowadays he is back in Holland, working upstairs at his trusted door to the world, a.k.a. iMac.

Parthiban is a technology architect with extensive experience in building enterprise software applications. He architects and pioneers applications & platform development in the areas of contextual advertising, semantic web, textual analysis, business intelligence and reporting.

Parthiban has worked for more than a decade in various stages of software development in fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Personalized Media, he worked with Johnson & Johnson as the Technical Development Manager, developing and managing web applications. Parthiban received Bachelor of Engineering from Bharathiar University and Masters Diploma from Madurai Kamaraj University.

Rony is the Director of Product Management at Personalized Media.

Before Personalized Media, he was a Product Manager with the Endpoint Management group at Novell. Prior to that, Rony has worked with companies large and small in various capacities that were technical, tactical and strategic in nature.

Rony has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Stephen is a Business Development Associate with a strong background in creative marketing and social media. He leads Personalized Media’s publisher management, focusing on new venture creation both internal and externally. He’s most excited by the potential of great design to help people navigate through tough problems in simple ways.

In his spare time, he works as an editor for DC’s premiere music and culture website, All Things Go.

Sergei started programming when he was 17, and has experience in a variety of programming languages and platforms (iOS is his latest passion). Before joining Personalized Media, he pursued a career in freelance development, where he worked on a multi-dimensional range of projects and made contacts across the globe.

Outside of Personalized Media, Sergei enjoys traveling, tourism, sports, and the outdoors.

After receiving her BA in Economics from UC Santa Barbara, Raquel spent many years working for an international company as a manager in the finance division. At the age of 26, she helped start a business where her background in finance naturally led to the position of Controller. She has since focused on everything from bookkeeping to payroll administration, human resources and expense management.

With an emphasis on Quickbooks, Raquel has both for-profit and non-profit 501(c)3 clients in Palm Beach and Broward County as well as MD, VA and overseas. Specializing in reconstruction and merchant account investigation, she also practices forensic bookkeeping wherein her work has been accepted by the Attorney General of FL and the FTC.

Dima got a book about basic programing language when he was 14 years old, and from there it was history. In addition to earning 3rd place in a Ukrainian programming contest, he attended Kharkiv National University where he studied at the Mechanics and Mathematics school. He has been programming for 11 years, with a focus in IT and web. In his spare time he enjoys playing computer games, studying IT books, and participating in programming contests like ICFP.