Yovav (Jay) Meydad
• United States: Greater Los Angeles Area
• internet
Current:
VP, Products, Snap (www.snap.com)
Member of the Advisory Board, ZIM Corporation (www.zim.biz)
Past:
VP, Product & Project Management, Spark Networks (www.spark.net)
Director, Wirel
Greater Los Angeles Area
Yovav "Jay" Meydad
Address: Greater Los Angeles Area
Current:
- VP, Products at Snap.com
- Member of the Advisory Board at ZIM Corporation (www.zim.biz)
Past:
- VP, Product & Project Management at Spark Networks (www.spark.net)
- Director, Wireless Account Management, ICQ Mobile at AOL (www.aolmobile.com)
Education:
- Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
People Network: 500+
Industry: Internet
Websites:
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Summary
Entrepreneurial-oriented executive presenting a formidable record leading global product development teams within high paced, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, environments.
Broad experience and understanding of internet and mobile consumer applications and services. Specialist in community creation and management as well as online personals, search engines, subscription/paid content web sites, web usability, customers' life cycle management, mobile entertainment & instant messaging.
Proven record of driving new ideas and making them a reality. From definition through development to large scale deployments reaching tens of millions of users.
Have built, scaled and led teams, in both startups and mature companies.
Fluent in English and Hebrew.
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Specialties:
Product Management, Project Management, Account Management, Consumer Applications, Mobile Entertainment Applications, Mobile Instant Messaging, Online Community Creation and Management, Online Personals, Search Engines, Subscription Based Services, Web Usability, Information Architecture, Web Analytics, Customer’s Lifecycle management (acquisition, conversion, retention), Search Engine Optimization
VP, Products
Snap.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Snap Technologies is a venture-backed company (Mayfield Fund/Idealab) whose primary business focus is helping people find what they're looking faster on the internet. The company does it via two products:
* Snap.com - an emerging search engine with visual approach to search and intuitive user interface
* Snap Shots – A web site enhancement tool that allows users to trigger advertising-supported, contextually relevant shots of world-class content on network sites, delivering a deeper level of engagement between all stakeholders. Since its launch in Nov 2006, Snap Shots has become on of the most popular web site enhancement tools, and is now resident on more than 1 million sites worldwide, generating 500M+ impressions per month.
At Snap, Jay leads the Product Management, Project Management, UX & Design, Business Analytics & Customer Support teams.
Eductional Details:
Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
Bachelor of Science, Industrial & Management Engineering, Information Systems Engineering, 1993 — 1997
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Websites:
- My Company
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Groups:
BlogWorld, Ad:Tech NY
- eOffice member
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Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member - Venture Capital Cafe member
Yovav "Jay" Meydad’s Honors:
• Time Magazine: 50 Coolest Websites of 2006, Web Search & Services, Snap.com
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222614,00.html
• Webbie Award, 2006: JDate.com won in the category of social networking.
www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-06.php