Internet content recommendation company Outbrain is preparing for its anticipated Wall Street IPO by appointing Yuval Ben-Itzhak as its CTO. Outbrain recently filed a confidential prospectus to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise money at a company value of $1 billion.
Outbrain provides content recommendation to Internet users which is personally suited to each individual user and linked to leading sites such as CNN, Le Monde, ESPN and the New York Post.
Ben-Itzhak spent five years as the CTO at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG) and prior to that he had many years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior technical leader at cyber security company Finjan and at Intel. At Outbrain, Ben-Itzhak will oversee the expanding team of global engineers who are building innovative products for publishers and brands.
Outbrain co-founder and CEO Yaron Galai said, "In Yuval, we found an innovative, versatile thinker who has a successful track record of launching impactful products and leading best-in-class engineering teams. He joins the company at a pivotal moment in our advancement and we couldn’t be happier with the result of our CTO search.”
Ben-Itzhak said, “I decided to join Outbrain because it’s an incredible business that has the audacity to tackle hard problems. Helping people discover relevant content online is extremely difficult, but Outbrain has the technical prowess to do it well. I hope to work with this incredible team to create even better experiences for publishers, marketers and, of course, consumers of online content.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 7, 2015
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