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SyndiGO is a division of Seevast. Seevast operates marketing service companies, like the popular Pulse360 sponsored links ad network, that drive ad sales, build brands and leverage the core assets of the company's clients. Seevast partners include top publishers such as MSNBC.com, USAToday.com, Weather.com, CBS TV Stations, CBS Radio, FOX.com, IMDB.com, NASCAR.com, DIGG.com, FoxSports.com, MSN, PGATour.com, and many others.
Management Team
Lance Podell
CEO of Seevast
Lance Podell is Chief Executive Officer of Seevast. Prior to this role, Podell was CEO of Kanoodle.
Previously, Podell served as general manager of Sprinks, a division of About, Inc., a Primedia company. There he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Sprinks business, and most notably, for the innovation of sponsored links on the Web's content pages. Ultimately, his work resulted in the sale of Sprinks to Google.
Podell has 18 years of experience in all facets of consumer and business-to-business marketing, and has worked for both Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups, including DealTime (now Shopping.com), Time Inc., US West, Publishers Clearing House, Bronner/Slosberg/Humphrey (now Digitas), Chiat/Day Advertising and Ogilvy & Mather.
Podell also serves on the board for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).
Jaan Janes
General Manager and SVP of Business Development at Seevast
Jaan Janes is the SVP of Business Development and General Manager of SyndiGO. Janes has more than two decades of business strategy and advertising experience. He joined Seevast from AOL where he was responsible for developing and selling strategic marketing programs for top advertisers, including Verizon Wireless and Coca-Cola Company. Previously, Janes worked on the sales development team at AOL, creating the business stratgey for advertising sales in programming areas inclusing news, sports, and weather, with partners such as CNN.com and TIME.com.
Janes began his online career in 1995 with the National Football League, where he launched the first major professional sports site, NFL.com, as well as executed some of the first online sports marketing programs. Janes has also held sales management positions at Showtime Networks and Sportsvision, Inc., a sports media technology company that invented the Emmy Award winning virtual first down line for football broadcasts.
Janes is a graduate of Cornell University.
Sahil Gambhir
Vice President of Product Management
Sahil Gambhir is Vice President of Product Management of SyndiGO. Sahil brings years of experience in the design, development and maintenance of B2B and B2C applications and services with a deep knowledge of internet-related technologies. At SyndiGO Sahil is responsible for product strategy and execution.
Recently, Sahil drove product development at TheLadders.com as well as Travelocity and PC Magazine. At Travelocity.com he guided the development of an innovative travel coordination tool called Meet-Me-In. While at PC Magazine, he authored numerous reviews in the enterprise and software domain.
Sahil is a graduate of The George Washington University.
Michael Collins
Vice President of Software Development
Michael Collins is Vice President of Software Development. Collins has over ten years of experience leading software development teams. At SyndiGO he is responsible for the day-to-day workings of the Development and Quality Assurance Teams.
Prior to this, Collins was the Director of Development at Datatel (Formerly Liquidmatrix) and has worked for both large corporations as well as start-ups, including Synacor (Formerly Chek.com), Rich Products, Tops, and Computer Task Group.
Collins holds a BS in Computer Science from The State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dave Casion
CTO of Seevast
Dave Casion brings years of practical experience developing performance driven, low cost, and scalable infrastructures and architectures leveraging open source technologies.
While serving as Chief Technology Officer of Seevast, Casion has been leading the technology organization and driving the forward looking vision of the Seevast family of companies for 6+ years.
Prior to becoming Chief Technology Officer of Seevast, Casion was Chief Technology Officer of Kanoodle.com from 2002-2006 and has also held leadership positions at IBM, Pinnacle Software and CFOKnows. At CFOKnows Casion was the Director of Research and Development and Director of Operations. At IBM Casion was responsible for leading research into open source serving platforms on IBM hardware and focused on large scale, highly available and performance critical implementations of open source technologies. At Pinnacle Software Casion was responsible for leading the Platform Development Division and Casion has also founded several successful internet technology ventures.
Casion holds a BS in Computer Science form Rochester Institute of Technology.