Jim is the CEO and co-founder of Attributor and also serves as the Chairman of Anchor Intelligence. Prior to Attributor, Jim was CEO and Chairman of Moreover Technologies, where he successfully restructured the company through acquisition by VeriSign in October of 2005. Before Moreover, Jim was the President and Chairman of Outride Inc., a spinout from the Xerox Palo Alto ResearchCenter (PARC), which was acquired by Google. Jim received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from the University of Colorado.

Matt leads the company’s business development and strategic partnership initiatives and also serves as the company’s general counsel.  Matt has been involved with internet and new media companies for the past decade, focusing on the intersection of content, technology and law. Before joining Attributor, Matt spent 6 years at Yahoo!, most recently as Vice President and Associate General Counsel overseeing legal product counseling. Matt holds a BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. 

Rich leads the Sales, Marketing and PR activities at Attributor. Previously he led the marketing efforts for Yahoo! Mail, Messenger and Photos which followed two years in London where he directed Yahoo!’s European Marketing efforts. Before that he held senior positions at Homestead, Segasoft, Del Monte Foods and Andersen Consulting. Rich holds a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business.

Adrian McDermott is the Chief Technical Officer at Attributor.  Previously he was the VP of Engineering for BEA Systems’ AquaLogic User Interaction family of products and the Web 2.0 based Enterprise Social Computing product line: AquaLogic Pages, Ensemble and Pathways.  Adrian joined BEA as part of the Plumtree Software acquisition, he was the first engineer hired by Plumtree in early 1997 and worked on the architecture and development of every Plumtree Portal product version.  Prior to Plumtree Adrian worked as an itinerant software consultant in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Guam.

Dejan manages the text, image and video crawling team at Attributor and is responsible for the company’s crawling architecture, algorithms and operations. Prior to Attributor, Dejan played lead roles at Yahoo, working on its first-generation APEX advertising platform, and at IBM Research, where he created a backup/restore application that is now standard on every Thinkpad. He also held various engineering leadership roles for 8 years at IBM research in the U.S. and China. A fluent speaker (and terrible speller) of four languages, Croatian native Dejan holds advanced degrees in Physics, Math and Computer Science from schools in Germany and the U.S.

Mark leads the Professional Services and Account Management teams at Attributor. Mark has extensive experience working with Internet startups over the past decade. Before joining Attributor, he was Director of Business Operations at Kindsight, a network based security solutions and Internet advertising startup. Prior to that, he held business operations and partner management positions with the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Xoom Corporation and University of California, San Francisco.