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Key People

Management

Todd Vernon, CEO

Todd is not only our fearless leader, but was also a founder and former CTO of Raindance Communications, Inc. He brings to the team his unusual dietary habits, startling ability to consume fantastic quantities of caffeine, love of bleeding-edge consumer gadgets, and over 15 years of management experience in startup, private, and public companies. Most importantly, Todd is the caretaker of our time and money and makes sure we spend them on things that make Lijit successful.

Stan James, Founder

Stan is the father of Outfoxed – the original technology behind what is now Lijit that he created as part of his Cognitive Science Master's Thesis. Prior to this, he was an early pioneer of browser-based entertainment and games of his design have been sold to Microsoft, AOL, Real Networks, and Hasbro. He holds and has applied for multiple patents and ensures we build cool and useful things here at Lijit. Referred to by Todd as "The Professor", he drives a highly oxidized, maroon-colored, early '90s Dodge Caravan with sweet pin striping down the side…much to everyone's (and his own) amusement.

Dan Jones, VP of Engineering

Dan's got a long rap sheet in software engineering, having held various and sundry technical roles across a variety of industries, including teleconferencing and biotech. Dan will research every possible combination of solutions to a problem (literally…seriously) until he finds the best one, be that for buying a new HDTV or optimizing a particularly vexing database query. Since no one else on the team is even remotely patient enough to do that, we're particularly glad to have Dan on our side.

Walter Knapp, COO

Walter has managed field organizations for Novell, investments for Cambridge Technology Capital, and raised venture capital for DCN. Now he applies his extensive talents in all aspects of building successful businesses at Lijit. We're lucky to have him, even if he is unnaturally good at cycling and skiing and uses strange associated phraseology we don't really understand, e.g. "I don't want us to get out too far out over our ski tips"

Micah Baldwin, VP of Business Development

Micah – who upon his original introduction to the Lijit team was described as “scary” and “tattooed” – is a 14-year veteran of the Marketing and Advertising space. He parlayed his love for those functions and desire to be more than just a user into creating his own search marketing agency, Current Wisdom, which he sold in March 2007 to Indigio. Armed with Biff, the trusty Wifi Rabbit, Micah travels the planet in search of strategic alliances and new business development opportunities that drive revenue for Lijit and value for our users.

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