Team
Dwight Merriman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder
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In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. Dwight received a B.S. in Systems Analysis/Computer Science from Miami University of Ohio.
Eliot Horowitz, CTO & Co-Founder
As CTO of 10gen's innovative platform technology, Eliot has quickly become one of Silicon Alley's up and coming entrepreneurs, recently voted as one of "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25" on BusinessWeek.com. Eliot is also the chief scientist of ShopWiki's breakthrough crawling technology. In January 2005, he began developing the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of ShopWiki's innovative technology.
Prior to ShopWiki, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick. In 2004, Eliot won DoubleClick's employee coding tournament that was designed to highlight the competitors' relative skills in the analysis of complex algorithmic problems and the ability to write software to solve those problems.
Eliot received a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University. He conducted research in artificial intelligence focusing on robotic mapping and navigation. He developed a novel algorithm for mapping spaces using a combination of support vector machines and adaboost that allows more precise navigation of office environments.
Kevin P. Ryan, Director & Co-Founder
Kevin Ryan, one of Silicon Alley's most well-known Internet entrepreneurs, is chairman and CEO of AlleyCorp, a network of affiliated Internet companies that includes six New York-based businesses - 10gen, Alley Insider, Gilt Groupe, Music Nation, Panther Express, and ShopWiki.
Prior to AlleyCorp, Kevin was first president then later became CEO of DoubleClick. There, he was instrumental in building the company from a 20 person startup to a global leader with over 1500 employees. Silicon Alley Reporter voted DoubleClick "New York Company of the Year" and Kevin was named one of the "50 Most Influential Business People" by Crain's New York Business.
Aside from his professional responsibilities, Kevin serves on the boards of the Human Rights Watch and the NYC Investment Fund and is a member of the Insead International Council, the Yale International Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served on the boards of the Direct Marketing Association, The Ad Council and Hotjobs, and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders. Kevin received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Insead.