Management Team
Konrad Feldman
Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.
Paul Sutter
Paul Sutter co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Konrad Feldman with a desire to apply his extensive knowledge of internet transaction processing to the digital media and advertising business. Sutter has more than 15 years of high performance computing experience and has been instrumental in the development of Quantcast’s distributed computing architecture, which is capable of processing upwards of 100 billion records per day. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Sutter founded the WAN optimization company Orbital Data, which was acquired by Citrix in August 2006. Previously, he had also founded Transium, an internet search services company, where prior to its acquisition by AltaVista in 2000, Sutter served as Vice President of Engineering. He held the same position at Voila Software, which was acquired by DEC. Sutter holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of West Virginia.
Michael Blum
Michael Blum joined the Quantcast team in May 2010 as General Counsel from Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in technology and life science matters, where he was Partner in the Intellectual Property Group. His practice focused on structuring and negotiating relationships to turn technology and intellectual property into revenue; on developing strategic patent portfolios; and on assessing, valuing and allocating risk. Blum headed the firm’s transactional privacy and data security practice and was Chair of the firm’s Privacy and Information Security Group. He has run numerous complex technology-related commercial transactions and has served clients from a broad range of industries including semiconductor, telecommunications, networking, enterprise and consumer software, and the Internet such as Apple, Intuit, PepsiCo, Barclays Global Investors and Informatica. Blum also worked several years as a management consultant for Deloitte. He holds a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he co-founded the Stanford Technology Law Review.
Julio Pekarovic
Julio Pekarovic joined Quantcast as CFO in May of 2010 after seven years at Google as Vice President, Global Sales Finance Operations. With over twenty years in corporate operational finance, Pekarovic brings to Quantcast his broad experience in driving global revenue through worldwide operations. While at Google, he founded, developed and directed the organization responsible for supporting the operational finance activities of Google’s Global Sales Force and Business Development teams. Working closely with the Global SVP of Sales and CFO, Pekarovic helped grow Google’s annual revenue to over $20 billion. Before Google he was Finance Controller for the Global Trading Web at Commerce One and Comercial Planning Director for EXPO’98 held in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a BA in Economics/International Area Studies from UCLA and MBA from INSEAD.
Jag Duggal
Jag Duggal joined Quantcast in June 2011 and is charged with strategic positioning, development and management of the company’s targeted display advertising and audience measurement solutions. Prior, he spent five years in product management at Google where he was most recently the lead on Google’s display strategy and responsible for driving the company’s brand display product suite. Duggal also worked for a decade at Oliver Wyman, a leading management consulting firm, where he was a Principal in the Digital and Strategy practice. There, he advised Fortune 100 CEOs and executive teams on development of Internet and technology businesses. Duggal developed market strategy, product requirements and business plans for multiple new businesses that scaled to greater than $500m in revenues. Duggal holds his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and is currently on leave from his Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Christina Cubeta
Christina Cubeta joined Quantcast in April 2009, and leads the company’s marketing across its entire product suite, corporate communications and brand management. Previously, she was the global director of marketing and communications at Omnicom Group’s Tribal DDB Worldwide, a leading interactive advertising agency, where she was a member of the executive team and oversaw the company’s global communication efforts spanning 54 offices in 36 countries. Under her brand management, Tribal DDB was named Advertising Age’s Global Agency Network of the Year in 2007, the first digital agency to receive the accolade, and the brand successfully rose to market leadership status throughout multiple countries. Cubeta holds her B.A. in Business Administration from Muhlenberg College with additional concentrations in Fine Arts and Italian studies.
Richard Kosinski
Richard Kosinski joined Quantcast as Senior Vice President, Sales in March 2011, responsible for scaling Quantcast’s targeting advertising business in the US and internationally. A seasoned executive with more than twenty years of media and sales experience, Kosinski has provided strategic direction for some of the world’s largest marketers and agencies in the US, Asia and Europe, making him a valuable asset as the company expands its product in the US and abroad. Recognized for being an industry sales leader, Kosinski previously held the position of VP, Political Advertising at Yahoo!, Chief Digital Officer at Westwood One and senior executive roles at both Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. Under his leadership, Yahoo! became the world’s largest online display media platform for paid political communications in the 2008 election. He holds a BA from the University of Arizona and completed management education programs at the Harvard Business School and Columbia University.
Michael Kamprath
Michael Kamprath joined Quantcast in April 2010 as Vice President of Engineering. He oversees software development and the operations of Quantcast’s data analytics. Kamprath started his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force working in the military’s space program where he held a variety of positions, including being a mission analyst at an operational satellite ground station overseas, doing space debris research and managing space launch vehicle programs. Kamprath joined Advertising.com as an early start-up, leading the Advanced Research team in an effort to design, develop and operate the company’s AdLearn optimization system. He stayed in this role for almost eight years, helping to establish the company as having one of the most advanced optimization and bid management systems in the business. Kamprath holds his BSE and MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan.
Martin Kupferman
Martin Kupferman began hiring talent for Quantcast in January 2008 when the company had little over twenty employees. He is now responsible for the company’s organization planning and development, candidate sourcing, hiring/interviewing program and development of HR policies aimed at talent retention. Kupferman was the CEO& co-founder of Pasqua Coffee Company, a five-hundred employee organization. He developed that sixty-unit, multi-city company from scratch through to smooth operations with a large dedicated consumer base, prior to selling it to Starbucks in 2000. Kupferman has also led the new business division of Yoga Journal, responsible for video production, conferences and web development, and was a management consultant for Coopers & Lybrand. Kupferman holds a BA in economics from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA in finance from the University of British Columbia.
Advisory Board
Trevor Hastie
Dr. Trevor Hastie is Chairman and Professor, Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Hastie began his career in the statistics and data analysis research group at AT&T Bell Laboratories. After 9 years with Bell Labs, he returned to Stanford University in 1994 as Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics. Hastie’s main research contributions have been in the field of applied nonparametric regression and classification, and he has written two books in this area: “Generalized Additive Models” (with R. Tibshirani, Chapman and Hall, 1991), and “Elements of Statistical Learning” (with R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, Springer 2001). He has also made contributions in statistical computing, co-editing (with J. Chambers) a large software library on modeling tools in the S language (“Statistical Models in S”, Wadsworth, 1992), which form the basis for much of the statistical modeling in R and S-plus. His current research focuses on applied problems in biology and genomics, medicine and industry, in particular data mining, prediction and classification problems. Hastie holds a B.S. from Rhodes University, M.S. from University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Jerome H. Friedman
Dr. Jerome H. Friedman is a Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Statistics and recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in statistics and data mining. He has been a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University for nearly 20 years and has published on a wide range of data-mining topics including nearest neighbor classification, logistical regressions, and high dimensional data analysis. His primary research interest is in the area of machine learning. Friedman holds an A.B. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
David Rosenblatt
David Rosenblatt, Google Inc.’s former President of Global Display Advertising, has joined Quantcast’s advisory board. Prior to his role at Google, Mr. Rosenblatt spent 11 years at DoubleClick, where he rose through the management ranks to become chief executive after holding several executive positions within the company, including President. Upon building DoubleClick into one of the world’s leading ad management platforms, he helped engineer the $3.1 billion sale of the advertising technology company to Google in 2007 and was then tapped to shepherd Google’s entry into display advertising. In his role there, he managed both the integration of DoubleClick into Google and the establishment of Google’s display strategy. Prior to joining DoubleClick, Mr. Rosenblatt spent several years as an investment banker at S.G. Warburg & Co, in Hong Kong, London and New York. Mr. Rosenblatt graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Michael Jordan
Dr. Michael Jordan is a leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He currently works at the University of California, Berkeley, in the department of Statistics and EEC, after being a MIT Professor for ten years. Jordan has received many honors for his papers at the International Conference on Machine Learning (2004), the American Control Conference (1991) and accepted the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was named a Fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery in 2010 for “contributions to the theory and application of machine learning.” Jordan received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.
