Executive and Board Bios | Regional Office Locations & Contact Information

Offices

New York

298 Fifth Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10001

P: (646) 403-3499
F: (646) 536-7327

Philadelphia

200 S. Broad Street
Suite 915
Philadelphia, PA 19102

P: (215) 395-8282
F: (215) 940-8293

Chicago

203 N. LaSalle Street
Suite 2100
Chicago, IL 60601

P: (312) 558-1465
F: (215) 940-8293

Los Angeles

475 Washington Blvd
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

P: (310) 439-3717
F: (215) 940-8293

Executive Team

Ari Jacoby

Ari Jacoby is CEO and Co-Founder of Solve Media. Previously, Ari co-founded VoiceStar, which was acquired in Sept 2007 by Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX). Previously he served as a senior consultant in the Business-to-Business division at Google. Before joining Google, Ari served as Director of Business Development for Reed Business Information-US, a division of Reed-Elsevier. Previously, Ari was the founder and CEO of Newsletters.com, where he led efforts in content aggregation, syndication, and affinity channel sales leading up to an acquisition by MarketResearch.com in 2000. Ari is a graduate of Georgetown University with a BA in Government.

Todd Lieberman

Todd Lieberman is President and Co-Founder of Solve Media. Previously he was CEO of VoiceStar, acquired in Sept 2007 by Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX). Prior to VoiceStar, Lieberman was the CTO and founder of Apartment Solutions, a residential real estate SaaS CRM and lead-generation service with over four million apartments under contract. Prior leadership roles include Senior Software Engineer at Strategic Management Group (SMG) where he was the developer of an online distance learning server. Todd holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government from American University.

Stu Libby

Stu Libby is Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Solve Media. He previously worked at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) as one of DoubleClick's top sales executives responsible for advertising agency new business development efforts in North & South America. He joined DoubleClick from Root Markets, an open marketplace for buying and selling consumer leads. Root Markets acquired LeadFilter where he was a principal. Stu previously served as CEO and Co-Founder of Campus Solutions, the leading online publisher of coupons for college students at its time. He graduated from Quinnipiac University with a BS in Marketing.

Jeffrey Weisberg

Jeffrey Weisberg is the Chief Technology Officer of Solve Media. Previously, he served as CTO of Voicestar, (Nasdaq: MCHX), where he led development efforts and managed the engineering team. Prior to Voicestar, he founded OpNet, one of the first ISPs in the Philadelphia region, and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Internet Service Provider NetReach. At NetReach Jeff oversaw all engineering, architecture, and security of TCP/IP network and UNIX servers. Jeff is an expert in internet applications, scaling, and network technologies, with specific expertise in network security. He holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science as well as an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester.

John Cappiello

John Cappiello is VP of Product at Solve Media, Previously, John was Director of Product Engineering at VoiceStar, acquired in Sept 2007 by Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX). Prior to VoiceStar, he was in research and development at IC Group (PoBox.com, ListBox.com), where he helped direct the evolution of core products. Underscoring his experience in optimizing products for market, John was CTO, VP at DOTmed.com, where he took a rough implementation and rebuilt it into complete and polished product. He then rounded out the product offering with complementary sets of features that drove repeat business and built brand loyalty. John attended the University of Maryland, College Park and Deerfield Academy.

Kyle Waxman

Kyle Waxman is Vice President, National Advertising Sales at Solve Media. Kyle joins Solve with 18 years of senior leadership experience in online advertising sales. He has held Strategic VP, National Sales positions within two organizations acquired by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS): Babble Media and Kaboose, Inc. In both cases Kyle built and managed world class advertising sales teams, delivered aggressive year over year revenue growth, and was an active participant/consultant in integrating new sales platforms into Disney's online portfolio. Prior to this, Kyle founded two online companies, including CampSearch.com which was acquired by Kaboose in 2004.

Executive Team

Board of Directors

Chris Fralic

Chris Fralic is a Partner at First Round Capital. Previously, he served as VP of Business Development at del.icio.us which was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005, where he focused on distribution partnerships to integrate del.icio.us across a broad set of browsers, tools and publishing partners. Chris has over 25 years of technology industry experience, including significant Internet sales and business development roles since 1996. Fralic currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management), and has taught graduate-level classes at Temple, Drexel, Rutgers and Eastern University. Chris is an advisor at First Growth Venture Network, a member of the Philly.com Digital Advisory Board, and has attended and been involved with the TED Conference since 1994 and helped launch TEDTalks, which have been viewed over 100 million times. Chris earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University, and his MBA from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Scott Johnson

Scott is a seasoned high tech entrepreneur and venture investor. Notable past investments include EnerNOC (Nasdaq ENOC) and Massive (acquired by Microsoft). He currently holds a seat on the Board of Directors of Pontiflex, Solve Media, Image Space Media and Fashion Playtes. Prior to co-founding NAV and its predecessor, DFJ New England, Scott was the East Coast partner of the Cambridge Technology Capital Fund. There he oversaw investments in E.piphany, Silknet, Digital Think, and WebLogic. Before that, he co-founded InterSense, Inc., a 3D visualization technology company. Scott began his career as a software engineer and early employee of Cambridge Technology Partners, a global systems integration and consulting company. He holds a BS in Operations Research from Cornell University and a MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Ian Schafer

Ian Schafer, CEO and Founder of Deep Focus (a part of Engine USA), is one of advertising's most influential voices in interactive marketing and social media. Prior to founding Deep Focus in 2002, Ian was Vice President of the New Media division of Miramax Films. Deep Focus is an award-winning engagement and innovation agency boasting a client roster that includes brands such as AMC, Microsoft, Capital One, WellPoint, The National Association of Realtors, Samsung, and MoMA. Under Ian's guidance, Deep Focus has been lauded for its expertise and excellence at using digital media, technology, creative, and communications strategies to create engaging, value-driven experiences that get people talking. The Emmy®-nominated firm has been responsible for many memorable, award-winning efforts over the years including 2009's MadMenYourself.com, and has been the recipient of numerous distinctions, including several Webby Awards and a Cannes Gold Lion.

Paul Martino

Paul is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of Bullpen Capital. Prior to Bullpen, Paul was the CEO and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. In 1997, Paul founded Ahpah Software, a computer security firm that was the result of his work as a Ph.D. student at Princeton University. Paul's tools for reverse engineering and obfuscation were first used by the premier security lab, the Princeton Secure Internet Programming Lab (SIP). In 1999, Ahpah Software was acquired by InterTrust Technologies. In 2003, Paul formed Tribe Network, one of the first social networks, with Mark Pincus, Chris Law, and Valerie Syme. At Tribe, Paul invented several core patents related to social networking. Tribe's assets were acquired by Cisco and are the cornerstone of Cisco's Entertainment Operating System (EOS). In 2005, Paul and Chris Law founded Aggregate Knowledge, a campaign and audience analytics firm focused on the advertising industry. Paul has personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, PayNearMe, and TubeMogul and holds a BS in Mathematics from Lehigh University and a Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Ari Jacoby

Todd Lieberman

Board of Directors

Security Council

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, author, and founder of BT Managed Security Solutions. Described by the Economist as a "security guru," Schneier has testified before the US Congress and is the author of a dozen books including the bestseller Applied Cryptography. Bruce Schneier is a prominent international speaker who has presented at TED, RSA, DEF CON, and Hacktivity among many other events.

Chris Wysopal

Chris Wysopal is a Blackhat Review Board member and CTO of Veracode. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people in IT and an InfoWorld CTO 25. He has been lead security research for @stake and director of development at Symantec and helped to produce the Organization for Internet Safety. Wysopal is co-author of the award winning password auditing and recovery application L0phtCrack currently used by over 6,000 organizations worldwide.

Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick is the NY Times Bestselling Author of Ghost in the Wires, and frequently cited as the world's most famous hacker. He is well known for using social engineering tactics and hacking into Pac Bell Cellular to do traffic analysis on FBI agents who were investigating him. He has testified before the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and has successfully hacked into organizations including Motorola, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, and Fujitsu Siemens. He is currently CEO of Mitnick Security Consulting LLC.

Adam J. O'Donnnell

Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell is the Chief Architect in the Cloud Technology Group at Sourcefire, and the author of numerous academic papers regarding malware and network security. He has been cited in publications including IEEE Security & Privacy, CNET, & The New York Times.

Elad Yoran

Elad Yoran is the Chairman and CEO of Vaultive, Inc, and founder or executive director of security companies MediaSentry, Riptech, and Sentrigo which were acquired by SafeNet, McAfee and Symantec respectively. Yoran has been awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He is a member of the FBI Information Technology Advisory Council, and is a regular speaker on innovation as well as IT security technology and market trends.

Justin Somaini

Justin Somaini is the Chief Trust Officer at Box. Prior to this, he most recently was the CISO at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for all aspects of Yahoo!'s information security strategy. With more than 18 years of information security experience, Somaini is seen as a leader in the industry who promotes an evolution of the security and risk management models. Through his public speaking and industry involvement he has given extensive talks and interviews on the threat landscape, public policy, security management and risk management. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Somaini was the CISO at Symantec. He has also held security leadership roles at VeriSign, Charles Schwab and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.