Todd Vernon

Founder and CEO, Lijit Networks
and EVP of Engineering, Federated Media

Todd is the Founder and CEO of Lijit Networks, which was acquired by Federated Media Publishing in October 2011. The acquisition has widely been acknowledged as one of the most significant M&A transactions in Colorado over the past decade.

As part of the acquisition, Todd took on a new role as EVP of Engineering at Federated Media Publishing. At FMP Todd is responsible for building, operating and scaling one of the web's largest real-time ad bidding and delivery infrastructures used by hundreds of thousands of publisher sites accessed by hundreds of millions of unique readers each month.

Prior to Founding Lijit, Todd co-founded Raindance Communications where he also served as CTO and Chief System Architect. While at Raindance, he lead the team which designed and built a global multimedia architecture for web conferencing that helped grow the company from start-up to publicly traded company (NASDAQ: RNDC) with annual revenues in excess of $80M.

Prior to becoming a serial entrepreneur, Todd built hardware and software to test experimental aircraft at NASA, and developed systems to automatically provision telephony services for some the nations largest RBOCs. He received his BS in electrical engineering technology from Central Missouri State University.

Walter Knapp

COO, Lijit Networks
and EVP of Platform Revenue, Federated Media

Walter is the Chief Operating Officer at Lijit Networks (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Federated Media Publishing) and EVP of Platform Revenue at FMP. As the COO of Lijit Networks, Walter is responsible for the company's day-to-day operations. In his role at FMP, Walter is responsible for publisher recruitment, advertising yield management, and exchange / RTB (real-time bidding) media across both Lijit Networks and Federated Media.

With more than 20 years of business and operations management, Walter has been an investor as a Partner and Principal for two very successful venture capital funds. He has also built and led large field organizations for two public companies, Novell and Cambridge Technology partners. Walter regularly speaks about monetization and data strategies at industry events covering both online publishing and advertising.

Emmanuel Puentes

CTO, Lijit Networks
and SVP of Engineering Federated Media

Manny is Chief Technology Officer at Lijit Networks (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Federated Media Publishing) and SVP of Engineering at FMP. In this role, Manny oversees all engineering efforts across Federated Media and Lijit Networks in addition to managing the team responsible for building, operating and scaling one of the web's largest real-time ad bidding and delivery infrastructures.

Manny has almost fifteen years of experience building large-scale networks including over five years in the online advertising industry designing and implementing ad serving platforms for Lijit Networks and MatchLogic. In addition, he has built collaborative communication systems including a global multimedia architecture for Raindance Communications (NASDAQ: RNDC) web conferencing service that earned him a patent in collaborative communications.

Perry Quinn

VP of Publisher Development

As VP of Market Development, Perry is responsible for the growth of the Lijit publisher network and leading the Publisher Services account management team. Most recently, Perry spent over a decade within the Services Group of Sun Microsystems in positions including Corporate Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Product Management. Prior to working at Sun, he was the Director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Camera Network and Chrome Industries. He also served as a key member of the sales team at TDA Advertising & Design, an award-winning international advertising and design agency based in Boulder, CO.

Perry received his BS in Business Administration Marketing from California State University, Chico, and his MBA from the University of Colorado.

Tom Hart

VP of Operations

In his role as VP of Operations, Tom is in charge of Lijit's customer support group as well as the operational roll-out and management of Lijit's advertising services and channel partner program.

Tom has over 10 years of operations and client services expertise in the on-line communications and technology space. Prior to his time in the tech industry, Tom worked as a research analyst at one of the nation's most prestigious law firms, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston, MA. Before Choate, Tom conducted human rights advocacy work throughout Northern Ireland while he earned an advanced certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. Tom has studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Queens University, Belfast and the University of Ulster, Derry. He also holds a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder where he studied History and Political Science.

Mark Chessler

VP of Finance

Mark has more than 15 years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and Accounting. Before joining Lijit, he spent six years as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for Raindance Communications (NASDAQ: RNDC). In this position Mark managed the companys yearly budget cycle, financial forecasting, as well as M&A related financial analysis and due diligence. Before joining Raindance, Mark held a variety of Finance positions within small to mid-sized technology companies.

Mark holds a BA in Economics from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado, Boulder.