Management Team
You don’t become the largest mobile-local ad network without the right leadership. Our talented executive team has over 30 years of combined mobile experience on top of loads of street cred.
Dipanshu Sharma
Founder & CEO (Head Honcho)
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As a fearless leader and founder, D is closely involved with every aspect of the organization’s daily operations, from product planning and market strategy, to technology execution and sales development – all while ensuring the team takes the time to enjoy some of his choice wine selections from all over the world.
Chi-Chao Chang
President of Products & Technology (Mad Scientist)
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More scientist than mad, Chi-Chao wields his extraordinary knowledge of mobile technology for the good of our organization, directing a team of talented designers and strategists in charge of product management and technology development that continues to set us apart from within the marketplace.
Stephen McCarthy
Chief Financial Officer (The Numbers Guy)
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Stephen’s military-like precision and leadership ensures that our team operates on sound, knowledgeable financial insights that keep us on track for success. His decades of experience in finance and accounting enable the organization to make informed decisions surrounding our future and continued growth.
Monica Ho
Vice President of Marketing (Brander in Chief)
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As the steward of xAd’s brand, Monica is responsible for developing and leading all marketing and public relations. After 12 years in the industry, her knowledge and creativity have successfully positioned xAd against industry competitors and won the organization important insider partnerships that continue to drive our ever-evolving strategy.
Dan Hight
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships (The Rainmaker)
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Dan is spearheading xAd’s efforts in building strategic partners and nurturing business relationships with certified marketing representatives, resellers, and publishers that continue to expand our footprint in the marketplace. After nine years in the local directory space, his expertise is an invaluable resource in our continued development of local-mobile campaigns and partnerships.
Sunil Kumar
Vice President of Monetization (The Wizard)
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Sunil is responsible for the implementation of all our performance-driven campaigns. His group leads monetization, new partner integration, and advertising operations. Through his past experience in network architecture, Sunil participated in the rise of the storage over IP industry, working with industry leaders to bring quality technology to the market – a mission he now focuses on the mobile industry.
Chad Hickey
Vice President of Sales (The Closer)
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As Vice President of Sales, Chad oversees xAd’s national sales team and is responsible for driving the sales strategy for innovative mobile advertising programs on behalf of major brand advertisers. Chad brings to this role over ten years of success in leading revenue-driven sales teams with a focus on strategic and performance-driven client solutions.
xAd Founding Team: Dipanshu Sharma, Chandra Kholia, Sunil Kumar, and Craig Hagopian
Board of Directors
Together with senior management, this talented group of business leaders, mobile consultants, executives and investors helps drive our strategy for mobile advertising and product development.
Dipanshu Sharma
Founder & CEO, xAd
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For over a decade, D has found new ways to leverage technology and to improve business models for entrepreneurs and innovative companies. His tenure in the mobile space includes time developing technology at Nokia, founding V-Enable and LocalAdXchange in 2001, which later became xAd. In addition, D is responsible for co-founding RockeTalk — India’s fifth-largest mobile-traffic site — and Kadonk — the top Microsoft Project Viewer.D’s credentials include TeleFusion’s “Technology Leader of the Year” (2003) and a nomination for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” (2005). In addition to xAd’s board of directors, he is a board member at Kadonk, Veracity Wireless and WikiSeer.
Steven Murray
Chairman, SoftBank Capital
Steven brings over 20 years of experience with high-growth, technology-based businesses, including sourcing and managing venture investments, all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and significant corporate finance and accounting. His career began at Deloitte, where he specialized in serving numerous high-growth, tech-based businesses, including Primark Corporation, Harcourt General and IDG.
Steven brings over 20 years of experience with high-growth, technology-based businesses, including sourcing and managing venture investments, all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and significant corporate finance and accounting. His career began at Deloitte, where he specialized in serving numerous high-growth, tech-based businesses, including Primark Corporation, Harcourt General and IDG.
Steven serves on the boards of several other private companies, including Grab Networks, Echo360, Mobile Posse, Nellymoser, Pivot Solutions, Sermo, VoodooVox and Ziplist. Previous boards he served include Rivermine, NLG, Viacore and Webhire.
Anders Richardson
Director, Palisades Ventures
Anders is active in all aspects of deal sourcing, due diligence and execution for Palisades Ventures. Prior to co-founding the firm, Anders worked in the Investment Banking Division of DLJ, in addition to focusing on public and private placements of debt and equity securities as well as buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory services in a variety of industries.
Having previously been a board member at Lucix Corporation, Avexus and Language Weaver, Anders is currently on the boards of xAd, SOA Software, Polaris Wireless and Apacheta. He received a B.A. from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jason Green
Director, Emergence Capital
With over 15 years of experience in venture capital, Jason is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital. Prior, he was general partner with USVP, as well as an associate and Kauffman Fellow with Venrock, which is a venture-capital arm of the Rockefeller family. Other previous employers include Muzertechnika; Bain & Company; and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
Jason’s success also includes leading early-stage venture investments for companies such as DoubleClick, aQuantive, Visual Networks, SuccessFactors and Ask Jeeves. In addition to xAd’s board, he also currently serves on the boards of private companies such as Lotame, TouchCommerce, ServiceMax, ResponseLogix and Yammer. Jason is a founding board member of Endeavor, a nonprofit serving the needs of entrepreneurs in emerging markets, and also serves on the board of the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital. In addition, he is chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and is on the HBS Global Advisory Board.
Emerick Woods
Independent Board Member
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Emerick has led and founded a number of early to mid-stage high-technology companies, as well as completed two initial public offerings. Recently, he was appointed CEO at Talari Networks, a venture-backed company providing WAN virtualization solutions to enterprise customers. Prior to Talari Networks, Emerick served as CEO of Global IP Solutions (GIPS), which under his leadership, increased its revenue by 400 percent within 18 months.
Even earlier, Emerick served as CEO of Vicinity Corporation, where he completed an initial public offering that raised $125 million. Subsequently acquired by Microsoft, Vicinity Corporation provided a location-based services platform for many of the world’s leading brands. Emerick has also been a chief executive at several venture-backed companies; held a variety of management and executive positions at Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom; and served in consulting positions at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Advisory Committee
These industry leaders share our vision for the future of mobile and enhance all we do and look to accomplish with their invaluable insights and insatiable curiosity.
Andrew McClean
Prior CEO of PHD, an Omnicom Company
Phuc Truong
Managing Director, US, Mobext
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Jason Newport
Head of Mobile Practice, Carat
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Andy Wasef
Head of Mobile and Emerging Platforms, MEC
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