Management Team
- Elizabeth Blair, CEO
- Melissa Goidel, SVP Sales
- Madhu Vudali, SVP Product
- Aram Compeau, SVP Engineering
- Katherine Inouye, Senior Director of Operations
Board & Investors
Elizabeth Blair, CEO - Prior to Brand.net, Elizabeth spent nine years at Yahoo!, the last four as Senior Vice President of Business Operations, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Elizabeth lead business development, and then took over P&L responsibility as Senior Vice President, for Yahoo!’s Local Media Group which included Local (Yellow Pages/Directories, Maps), Search Monetization and Classifieds (Autos, Careers, Real Estate and Tickets). She was instrumental in building Yahoo’s M&A team, joining as the second corporate development hire in 1998. Prior to Yahoo! she was a member of the M&A team at PRIMEDIA, and began her career as a securities and M&A lawyer. Elizabeth received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Melissa Goidel, SVP Sales - Prior to Brand.net, Melissa was Vice President of National Sales, Time Inc., where she built and managed the sales forces for People.com, Instyle.com and EW.com. Before Time Inc., Melissa spent eight years at Yahoo!, as Regional Vice President of Sales, Eastern Division, managing the Finance and Business Services category. Prior to her Internet sales career, Melissa was a Group Sales Director at Catalina Marketing and began her career selling broadcast media at Katz Media Group. Melissa received a B.S. in Journalism from University of Maryland.
Madhu Vudali, SVP Product - Prior to Brand.net, Madhu spent four years at Yahoo! as Senior Director of Pricing & Yield Management, responsible for maximizing monetization of Yahoo's display and search advertising inventory. Prior to Yahoo! Madhu was in management consulting and product development roles, all focused on Pricing & Yield Management at Rapt and Talus/Manugistics. Madhu’s clients included Yahoo!, HP, Ford Motor Company and Sheraton Hotels. Madhu began his career as a Systems Engineer at Nortel Networks. He received a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Osmania University, India, an M.S. in Computer Science from Villanova, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Texas.
Aram Compeau, SVP Engineering - Prior to Brand.net, Aram was Chief Technology Officer at Boredat, a venture backed anonymous social network for college students. Aram previously co-founded Trailside Systems, a Telco data center software company, and Dark Indigo, an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) consulting firm, and has consulted extensively on enterprise software systems performance, scalability, and optimization. Aram began his career in the semiconductor industry and spent five years as a software developer for TIBCO Software, a global leader in real-time business software. Aram received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Katherine Inouye, Senior Director of Operations - Prior to Brand.net, Katherine ran the Planning & Campaign Management team at Connexus, responsible for execution and optimization of the network’s performance-based display campaigns. At Ticketmaster, she led the yield management and new product initiative analytics for National Sales & Marketing. Katherine began her career as a corporate bankruptcy consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. She received a B.A. from UCLA and a M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
Board of Directors
- Elizabeth Blair - CEO
- Robert Abbott - General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
- Flip Gianos - General Partner, InterWest Partners
- Doug Pepper - General Partner, InterWest Partners
