Management Team
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Jonathan Stern, Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/JonathanStern
Jonathan Stern founded ZoomInfo (formerly Eliyon Technologies Corporation) in 2000 and is its chief executive officer and chief scientist. For more than 30 years Stern has been active in research in cognitive sciences, developing useful products based on algorithms which track the way people reason. In 1993, Stern founded CardScan (formerly Corex Technologies Corp.) and was president and CEO from the company's inception to its acquisition in 2006. Under his leadership, CardScan became the leading business card reading solution, reaching over 90% market share due to its superior character and text recognition and parsing algorithms. In 1999, CardScan was named in Inc. Magazine's prestigious Inc. 500 list as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. In 1998, 1999, and 2001, Stern was a finalist in Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award competition. Before CardScan, Stern co-founded ServiceSoft (formerly Rosh Intelligent Systems), where he served as president and CEO for 10 years. ServiceSoft was a leading provider of expert system tools designed for the diagnostic, repair and maintenance of complicated equipment. Key customers included field service organizations of companies like Xerox, Applied Materials, Philips and Siemens. ServiceSoft was acquired by Kana Software, Inc. where its powerful and flexible expert system is being used for online self-service applications. Prior to Rosh, Stern served in the Israeli Army for five years, advancing to the rank of Major. During his service, the President of the State of Israel awarded Stern a medal of distinction for outstanding technical achievements contributing to the security of the country. Stern earned both a master's and bachelor's degree cum laude in computer science from The Technion, Israel's most prestigious institute of technology. |
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Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/BryanBurdick As president of ZoomInfo, Bryan Burdick is responsible for sales, marketing, product and business development. Under his leadership and direction, the company increased profitability and continues to deliver record growth. Burdick was instrumental in expanding ZoomInfo's footprints beyond the recruiting industry into sales, marketing and bizographic ad targeting. He has also helped solidify strategic partnerships and business development relationships for the company. Before joining ZoomInfo, Burdick served as chief marketing officer for the Monster Worldwide TMP AdComms Division, where he was responsible for all product and marketing functions, as well as the division's strategic business operations. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of core segments for Monster North America. Previously, he served as senior vice president of global portal services with Terra Lycos, Inc., where he managed the five core international business units including Search and eCommerce. Burdick has also served as the SVP and managing director of consumer products for Go2Net (purchased by InfoSpace) and SVP of marketing for Reality Online, Inc., a Reuters Company. Currently, Burdick serves on the advisory board for Vivisimo, Inc., an enterprise search company. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business. Burdick is often quoted in the media as an expert on the recruiting and marketing fields, as well as search technologies. He frequently presents at industry tradeshows, including: the AlwaysOn Media Conference, Red Herring East, Kennedy Information's Recruiting 2007, Infocommerce and salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2007. In his spare time, Burdick coaches a two-time state champion youth hockey team, the '95 Central Mass. Outlaws. |
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Michel Décary, Co-Founder and Senior Scientist Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/MichelDecary With 20 years of natural language processing experience, Michel Décary co-founded ZoomInfo and serves as its senior scientist. He is responsible for developing the company's core technology. Prior to ZoomInfo, in 1998, Décary founded Cogilex R&D, Inc., a supplier of natural language processing software tools, where he designed new methods for syntactical parsing based on the dependency syntax theory and developed a new approach to rule-driven semantic extraction. Cogilex tools are used by a variety of innovative service providers and major corporations. From 1994 to 1997, Décary was a lecturer at McGill University and a research associate with the Laboratory of Applied Cognitive Science where he worked on computer-based text analysis and representation. He co-authored several papers and book chapters about his Coda-X system for the semantic analysis of English text. From 1989 to 1994, Décary was the CEO of Neurox Research, Inc., a Montreal-based company specializing in natural language processing primarily for the Canadian Armed Forces. Prior to Neurox, Decary co-founded Logiciels Machina Sapiens, Inc. in 1985 and was its president until 1989. While at Machina Sapiens, he designed the company's first version of an award-winning French grammatical checker. In 1989, Machina Sapiens won the prestigious MICA award for research excellence by CIEQ (Conseil de l'industrie électronique du Québec) and its current products are considered among the best in the world in its category. Décary holds a B.A. in linguistics and an M.Sc. in computer science from Université de Montréal. He also pursued doctoral studies in computational linguistics at Université de Montréal and in applied linguistics at McGill University. |
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Bill Price, Chief Financial Officer Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/BillPrice Bill Price has a proven track record building successful software companies. As ZoomInfo's chief financial officer, he is responsible for the overall financial health of the organization, as well as managing human resources, legal and investor relations. Prior to ZoomInfo, Price's most recent positions were SVP and CFO of MarketSoft, where he helped the company raise venture capital and emerge as a leader in the Enterprise Marketing Management space with consecutive quarterly revenue growth. Before MarketSoft, Price was CFO of NextPoint Networks, a VC-backed software developer of Internet-based network management solutions, where his leadership was instrumental in the organization's growth and ultimate acquisition by NetScout Systems. He has also served as CFO at MediQual Systems, a medical software developer of clinical information management systems, where he led an IPO and sale to Cardinal Health. Price was also a senior audit manager at Arthur Andersen serving Fortune 1000 organizations with audit, tax and financial consulting services. Price earned his Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern University and is a licensed CPA in Massachusetts. |
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Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/MichaelSouza Michael Souza has led sales since joining Zoom Information in early 2003. Under his aggressive leadership, sales doubled in his first two years with the company, and have grown by at least 40% year-over-year thereafter. Prior to joining Zoom Information, Souza held several sales management positions for Lycos, most recently leading the International Sales team, where he was responsible for working with Lycos' joint venture partners around the globe to drive revenue to the U.S. site. Prior to that, Souza directed the top regional sales team at Lycos, accounting for over half of the total recognized revenue of four regional teams in 2000. Before Terra Lycos, Souza held various sales and sales management positions at Atlantic Components, a regional distributor of electro-mechanical components. Souza has been a contributing presenter and a member of the American Management Association. In December of 2006, ZoomInfo was honored with the "Stevie Award", presented by Selling Power Magazine, as the 2006 Software Sales Organization of the Year. Souza holds a bachelor's degree in business management from Ithaca College. |
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Russell Glass, SVP and GM, Advertising Products Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/RussellGlass Russell Glass is the SVP and GM of ZoomInfo's Advertising Products. In that role, he is responsible for developing the business plan and managing the rollout of ZoomInfo's bizographic ad targeting products. Previously, Glass was vice president of products and marketing, and was responsible for ZoomInfo's marketing-driven revenue and product management. In that capacity, he increased lead generation revenues by over 600% while cutting costs and launched six new products in two years, and his team launched the world's first business information search engine while increasing traffic to the site. Under his leadership, in April 2007 ZoomInfo.com was ranked the fastest growing network in the country, with 276% annual growth by Nielsen/NetRatings. Prior to joining ZoomInfo, Glass was the CEO and founder of AGEA Corporation, a wireless middleware and messaging company that he led to an acquisition by Avalon Digital Marketing Systems. Glass is a semi-prolific blogger, is quoted often in the media and has spoken at industry conferences including DEMO 2007, Red Herring CMO and the 2007 Semantic Technology Conference. He has BSE from Duke University in Mechanical Engineering and Economics. |
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Tad Goltra, VP and GM, Recruiting Business Unit Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/TadGoltra Tad Goltra is VP and GM of ZoomInfo's Recruiting business unit. Goltra joined ZoomInfo in September 2007 and is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of the business, including the company's flagship product PowerSearch. Prior to ZoomInfo, Goltra spent four years at Monster Worldwide, where he held several senior-level positions, most recently serving as vice president of product management. In that role, Goltra drove the product strategy and roadmap for Monster's $700 million careers business, overseeing the launch of multiple new products and product enhancements for employers and job seekers. Before Monster, Goltra was director of product management at Vicinity Corporation where he managed the company's portfolio of web, wireless and speech products, prior to the company's acquisition by Microsoft. Goltra was also previously a product manager at Hewlett Packard and earlier in his career worked as a legislative staffer in the US Senate. Goltra has a bachelor's degree in history from Columbia University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. |
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Chip Terry, VP and GM, Sales Intelligence Business Unit Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/ChipTerry Chip Terry is VP and GM of ZoomInfo's Sales Intelligence business unit. Terry joined ZoomInfo in January 2008 and is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of the sales intelligence business, including the company's flagship sales intelligence product PowerSell. Prior to ZoomInfo, Terry spent over four years at Forrester Research in various positions including vice president of strategy and vice president of marketing. As the vice president of marketing, he drove the lead generation, and sales efficiency efforts for a global sales force of over 200 reps. He also managed the web properties. Before Forrester, Terry held senior positions in product management and marketing at Walden Media, HomePortfolio.com, Reed Business Information services and The Princeton Review. He is an avid sailor and a mediocre skier. Terry holds a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in American history from Boston University. |
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Sam Tharp, VP and GM, Search Business Unit Web Profile: www.zoominfo.com/SamTharp Sam Tharp is VP and GM of ZoomInfo's search business unit. He joined ZoomInfo in November 2007 and is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of ZoomInfo.com. Before joining ZoomInfo, Tharp held a variety of senior product, marketing and general management roles at world-class companies including Monster Worldwide, Dell, AOL and Time Warner. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and English from University of Cape Town, South Africa. |
