Iggy Fanlo
CEO
Iggy Fanlo joined as CEO of AdBrite in May 2006. Prior to joining AdBrite, Iggy was President and Chief Revenue Officer at Shopping.com. His tenure (1999-2006) ran from the pre-revenue days to over $200 million a year. The company completed an IPO in October 2004 and was acquired by eBay for over $650 million in August 2005.
Prior to his technology career, Iggy spent 15 years on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan. As a Managing Director at both firms, Iggy held various positions, ending as the head of all US Dollar Securitized Debt Trading and Capital Markets. During his final fiscal year, Iggy’s department generated over $300 million in gross profits.
Iggy received a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1983 from Princeton University.
Gonen Wilf
Vice President of Operations
Gonen Wilf joined AdBrite as Vice President of Operations in 2007, and is responsible for the company’s network and system operations and IT.
Prior to this, Gonen was Director of System and Internal Support at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) where he was in charge of global network and system operations. In this capacity, he was responsible for its entire IT infrastructure, all data centers, and security. He also led the systems and IT integrations of four acquired companies into Check Point’s global network operations. During his eight years with Check Point, Gonen worked closely with the company’s R&D and Products division, where he participated in delivering many of Check Point’s products. Before working with Check Point, Gonen was employed at ChipX (Israel) Ltd., where he was in charge of IT and system operations.
Gonen holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute for Technology in Haifa Israel.
Daniel Issen
Vice President of Engineering
Daniel Issen joined AdBrite in February 2008 as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining AdBrite, Daniel managed application and data architecture at PayPal, managed development teams for PayPal Global Operations, was one of 4 enterprise architects responsible for eBay, was Chief Architect at NetSpend, and was the founder and CEO of Whetstone Logistics. At eBay, Daniel was responsible for all aspects of finding, including catalogs, attributes, and search. Daniel was the sole architect for Kijiji, eBay’s catalog system, blogs, and several of eBay’s motor related offerings. Daniel led the re-engineering of search at Mobile.de and tripled the performance of the system resulting in a net savings of a data center. Daniel designed and led the development of Deja.com’s precision buying service that was subsequently acquired by Half.com. Over the last 21 years, Daniel has worked on many highly available and horizontally scalable systems, most notably in the domains of search, financial systems, and operations research. Daniel holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.