Team

Michael Mathieu, CEO

Michael Mathieu has over 15 years of experience in the online media and technology sectors. Prior to joining YuMe as CEO, Michael was President of the Internet Division of Freedom Communications, an entertainment company that operates print publications, broadcast television stations and interactive businesses. Prior to Freedom, Mathieu was SVP at United Online, Inc., where he oversaw the explosive growth of the company’s media group that helped drive the company’s transition from dial up ISP to a global media business. Earlier in his career, Michael worked for AT&T, CompuServe, and Wang Laboratories holding various positions in sales and marketing.

Michael received his BA in Economics from City University of New York.

Jayant Kadambi, Co–Founder and President

Jayant Kadambi has over 18 years of experience in the areas of networking, hardware architecture and semiconductors. Prior to co-founding YuMe in 2004, Jayant was Vice President R&D and Officer of Netopia, Inc., a publicly held manufacturer of DSL equipment and service provider for ISP’s and carriers. Jayant joined Netopia upon its acquisition in 1999 of StarNet Technologies, a VoDSL company he had co-founded. Prior to co-founding StarNet, Jayant held various technical and marketing positions in AMD’s networks division, and AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked on high-speed LAN systems, hardware and DSL technologies.

Jayant received his BSEE and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic. Jayant is the co-author of a book on Gigabit Ethernet and the holder of several patents in the networking arena.

Ayyappan Sankaran, Co–Founder and CTO

Ayyappan Sankaran has over 18 years of experience in software architecture, design and development in the areas of real time embedded systems, voice and data networks and medical instrumentation. Prior to co-founding YuMe in 2004, Ayyappan was Director of software development at Netopia, Inc., a publicly held manufacturer of DSL equipment and service provider for ISP’s and carriers. Ayyappan was a co-founder of StarNet Technologies, a VoDSL company that was acquired by Netopia in 1999. Prior to co-founding StarNet, Mr. Sankaran held various technical positions in Octel communications (acquired by Lucent technologies), Abbott Labs, and Ready Systems.

Ayyappan holds a BSEE from the University of Engineering, Madras, India and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas.

Scot McLernon, Chief Revenue Officer

Scot brings over 15 years of interactive marketing experience to the YuMe team. He has built and led three successful web sales teams, including at CBS Marketwatch and CBS Interactive. Most recently, McLernon was President of Upstream Group, Inc. where he developed Habitat–the industry’s only combined training and networking event for sellers. McLernon was on the Board of Directors for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) for five years and co–founded the Bay Area Interactive Group (BIG) in 2004, which educates and helps network the Bay Area’s interactive marketing community.

Recognizing his accomplishments as an innovator and industry pioneer, McLernon received the ad:tech Industry Achievement Award in 2007.

 

Michael Hudes, Executive Vice President

Michael brings an extensive advertising and digital media background to the YuMe team. Michael previously served as CEO of Keystream, where he led the development of a platform for publishers and advertisers to create dynamic overlay advertising units to more effectively monetize video content. Prior to that he served as President of Innovation Strategy and Growth for Interpublic Group's Mediabrands and was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Organic, Inc., where he oversaw the company's evolution from a 17 person shop dedicated to building websites to a 1,300 person team focused on digital marketing services. 

Michael graduated with Honors with a BA in Political Science from the University of Rochester.

Molly Glover Gallatin, Vice President of Marketing

Molly brings over 15 years of media and marketing management experience to the YuMe team. Molly began her work in interactive media in 1997 when she launched Granite Broadcasting’s Internet Division, overseeing operations and sales for ten network-affiliated TV station websites. Molly joins YuMe from Knight Ridder Digital, where she managed marketing and communications for the Real Cities Network. Prior to joining Knight Ridder Digital Molly worked for start-ups in the digital media management and Internet TV space – eMotion and RespondTV. Molly began her career in advertising, working in account management at BBDO and D’Arcy Masius Benton Bowles in New York.

Molly received her BS from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MBA from Columbia University.

Gian Lombardi, Vice President of Sales, East

Gian brings over 14 years of Internet marketing, sales and management experience to the YuMe team. Gian joined YuMe from PointRoll, where he served as the Vice President of Sales and managed a team of over 20 salespeople nationally, helping establish PointRoll as a leading player in the rich media space. Prior to PointRoll, Gian worked at Maven Networks, a video player and CMS solution company that was acquired by Yahoo! Prior to Maven, Gian held a variety of sales and management positions at DoubleClick, managing sales teams for DoubleClick's email platform business, research business, DART for Advertisers business at its inception in 1998 and also as the first salesperson selling the DART for Publishers ad serving platform in 1997. Gian began his career in online advertising in 1995 in the New York sales office of Wired Magazine and the Hotwired website, the Internet's first ad supported website.

Gian received his BA from Colgate University.

Breeze Dake, Senior Director, Ad Operations

Breeze Dake has 9 years of experience in the online video advertising and technology space. Prior to joining YuMe, Breeze was Senior Account Director at Atlas, where he was responsible for managing relationships with agency and direct marketers who were utilizing the third party ad serving technology. Before joining Atlas, Breeze worked at Digital Impact where he was responsible for designing and managing client's digital marketing strategies across multiple media channels including email, webistes, search engines, and direct mail. Earlier in his career, Breeze was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and leverage buyouts.

Breeze holds a BA, cum laude, from Harvard College.

Lisa Su, Controller

Lisa Su has over 10 years of experience in the online media and technology sectors. Prior to joining YuMe, Lisa was the Controller at Travelzoo Inc., a publicly held online travel advertising website, for the last 8 years. Prior to Travelzoo, Lisa was the Treasury Accountant at Webvan Group. Earlier in her career, Lisa worked at Integrated Telecom Express and Stuart Anderson's Black Angus in various accounting roles.

Lisa received her BA in Economics-Accounting from Claremont McKenna College and her MBA in Finance from California State University East Bay.

Allen Shim, Director of Finance & Sales Operations

Allen has extensive financial experience focused on Internet and technology companies, most recently as the Director of Business Operations at Yahoo! for the Marketplace properties including Shopping, Travel, Local, and Personals where he was responsible for financial management and business analytics. Prior to Yahoo!, Allen was an investment analyst at Sanford Bernstein and Citigroup in New York covering technology and consumer products.

Allen received his BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.