About Gigya

Gigya’s mission is to socialize the rest of the web. We provide websites with a complete social infrastructure that creates immersive social experiences for users and provides unparalleled customer insights for businesses.

Gigya equips businesses like ABC, Pepsi and Verizon with a comprehensive solution to socialize their online properties. Our technology enables seamless registration with Social Login, increases traffic and time spent on-site via Social Plugins and Gamification and transforms marketing by leveraging permission-based social identity data.

Gigya works with more than 500 enterprises and touches more than one billion users per month. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before.

Meet the Leadership Team

  • Patrick Salyer, CEO

    As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick is responsible for Gigya’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. Patrick previously held the position of Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Gigya, driving retail product strategy and operations as well as strategic partnerships including relationships with the top social networks and identity providers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. He was also instrumental in building and managing Gigya’s high-performing sales development organization. Patrick has also held positions at Gigya in business development and corporate sales, driving adoption of Gigya’s technology across more than 500,000 websites, and delivering some of Gigya’s lighthouse enterprise clients. Before joining Gigya, Patrick co-founded a suite of social network applications and games and served as Associate Consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. Patrick holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University.

  • Eyal Magen, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

    Eyal has more than thirteen years of experience in Internet executive positions. Prior to Gigya, he served as VP Products and General Manger of Hotbar.com, a leading contextual advertising company with more than 10MM active users and a revenue stream of $25MM/year. Before that, Eyal served as Director of Business Development at Kidum ltd, a leading global eLearning enterprise. Eyal holds a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University.

  • Rooly Eliezerov, Co-founder and President

    As President of Gigya, Rooly supervises overall product strategy and development. He is a veteran of the Internet advertising and marketing industry, with a focus on product development. Before joining Gigya, Rooly served on the board of Metacafe, held the position of General Manager at SmartShopper and was the VP of Products & Marketing at Hotbar. Rooly holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Pratt Institute in New York City.

  • Eran Kutner, Co-founder and CTO

    Eran has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Recanati School of Business Administration in Tel-Aviv University. Eran has fifteen years of experience in software development and management. He served for six years as an officer in the software division of the Israeli Air Force. Later, Eran joined Commtouch (CTCH), a leading provider of web based email solutions. Before co-founding Gigya, he served as VP of R&D at Hotbar.com, where he built the entire technological infrastructure of the company from the ground up.

  • Raviv Pavel, Vice President, R&D

    Raviv has fifteen years of experience in software development and management. He held various R&D management and architecture positions in enterprises and start up companies. Before joining Gigya, he served as Director of Architecture at Hotbar.com, responsible for server technologies and managing several R&D teams. Raviv has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Open University of Israel.

  • Brian Sullivan, Vice President, Client Services

    As Vice President of Client Services, Brian is responsible for customer success. Prior to joining Gigya, Brian served as SVP and General Manager of the site search and content management business unit for WebSideStory and then Omniture. The products Brian helped evolve and support are now part of Adobe’s Online Marketing Suite. Prior to serving as GM, Brian was Vice President of Professional Services for Atomz a SaaS innovator helping marketers target content based on their visitor’s behavior and search queries.

  • Alan Tarkowski, Vice President, Sales

    As Vice President of Sales, Alan Tarkowski oversees the entire Gigya sales team and is responsible for generating new sales opportunities and revenue worldwide. Alan brings over fifteen years experience of selling for start-ups and mid-stage SaaS companies in the online marketing arena. Most recently, Alan was managing sales territories at Coremetrics, a website optimization company acquired by IBM. Alan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing from DePaul University.

  • Limor Wilks, Vice President, Finance

    As Vice President of Finance, Limor Wilks leads Gigya’s financial and administrative operations as well as the company’s growing HR initiatives. Limor brings over fifteen years of financial and accounting experience from both private and public technology companies. Most recently, Limor served as VP of Finance at HyperRoll, a provider of data performance software to Fortune 500 companies that is now part of Oracle. Limor is a Certified Public Accountant and spent several years as an audit professional with Ernst & Young. Limor holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Hebrew University, a MS in Accounting and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Board Of Directors

Michael Eisenberg, General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Michael Eisenberg has been a key figure in Internet and software investing in Israel since 1995, playing a central role in the development of many of Israel’s leading companies and startups. Prior to joining Benchmark, Michael was a partner at Israel Seed Partners for eight years. Michael joined Israel Seed in 1997 from Jerusalem Global, where he started and headed the firm’s successful investment banking group and partnership with Montgomery Securities. Michael serves on the board of Snunit, Israel’s foremost nonprofit organization, specializing in integrating technology and the Internet into Israel’s elementary schools. Michael also lectures frequently on the topics of venture capital and entrepreneurship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Michael holds a BA in Political Science from Yeshiva University in New York.

Navin Chaddha, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Navin is a proven serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and venture investor. Navin was named on the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 dealmaker in 2007 and as a top 10 dealmaker in 2008. He invests in the software, enterprise infrastructure, networking systems, communications, Internet infrastructure and semiconductor sectors in the United States, and leads Mayfield’s investments in India. Navin holds an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (received the Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director’s Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006. He holds over 35 patents and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by several publications including Aspatore Books, Business 2.0, Forbes, Fortune, Upside and The Wall Street Journal.

Jake Winebaum, Founder and CEO, Business.com

Jake is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Business.com. Jake is also co-founder of eCompanies which is a shareholder in Business.com. In addition to Business.com, eCompanies founded Jamdat (JMDT, sold to EA), Boingo, USBX Advisory Services, LLC and was the lead investor in Lower My Bills (sold to Experian). Prior to Business.com and eCompanies, Jake worked for The Walt Disney Company for several years. He served as chairman of Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG), which included Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, ABC.com and Family.com. Prior to that role, Jake served as president of Disney Online, where he led the team that developed and executed the expansion of the Disney brand onto the Internet beginning in 1994. Before Disney Online, Jake was president of Walt Disney Magazine Publishing. He also founded both FamilyFun and FamilyPC magazines and served as President, Editor and Publisher of both publications. Jake sold FamilyFun to The Walt Disney Company in 1992.

Patrick Salyer, CEO, Gigya

As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick is responsible for Gigya’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. Patrick previously held the position of Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Gigya, driving retail product strategy and operations as well as strategic partnerships including relationships with the top social networks and identity providers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. He was also instrumental in building and managing Gigya’s high-performing sales development organization. Patrick has also held positions at Gigya in business development and corporate sales, driving adoption of Gigya’s technology across more than 500,000 websites, and delivering some of Gigya’s lighthouse enterprise clients. Before joining Gigya, Patrick co-founded a suite of social network applications and games and served as Associate Consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. Patrick holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University.

Eyal Magen, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Gigya

Eyal has more than thirteen years of experience in Internet executive positions. Prior to Gigya, he served as VP Products and General Manger of Hotbar.com, a leading contextual advertising company with more than 10MM active users and a revenue stream of $25MM/year. Before that, Eyal served as Director of Business Development at Kidum ltd, a leading global eLearning enterprise. Eyal holds a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University.

Eran Kutner, Co-founder and CTO, Gigya

Eran has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Recanati School of Business Administration in Tel-Aviv University. Eran has fifteen years of experience in software development and management. He served for six years as an officer in the software division of the Israeli Air Force. Later, Eran joined Commtouch (CTCH), a leading provider of web based email solutions. Before co-founding Gigya, he served as VP of R&D at Hotbar.com, where he built the entire technological infrastructure of the company from the ground up.

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