Ariel Poler

Ariel Poler has been involved with a number of successful Internet start-ups. He was the founder and CEO of IPRO, the first company to measure and audit web traffic. He was also founder and CEO of Topica, a leading provider of email publishing and lead management solutions. Poler was founding board member of Kana Software, a pioneering provider of CRM solutions [NASDAQ:KANA]; he was founding Chairman of LinkExchange (now Microsoft's bCentral service for small business marketing); and he was a board member of Silicon Investor (now part of InfoSpace). As CEO of TextMarks, Poler is enabling the “long tail” of SMS publishing. And as CEO of Mastil, he is making web-based database solutions accessible to small and medium organizations.

Poler currently serves on several boards of directors, including Bills.com, a provider of consumer debt resolution and lead generation services; Papilia, an innovative provider of technology to help non-profits manage their stewardship efforts; and StumbleUpon, a fast growing content discovery network. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University.