About Me
I was born and raised in a little village in Israel. I studied Industrial & Management Engineering & Information Systems Engineering and graduated in 1997. In 2003 I moved to Los Angeles where I spent seven years. In the fall of 2010, I moved back to Israel and I founded a new company, Hitpad.
I have a broad experience and understanding of Internet and mobile consumer applications and services. Some of the areas that I have mastered during my career include search engine development, advertising networks, contextual technologies, community creation and management, online personals, subscription/paid content web sites, web usability, customers’ life cycle management, mobile entertainment & instant messaging.
Career:
- Co-Founder & CEO, Hitpad
- Vice President of Products & Operations, Snap Technologies, the company behind Snap Shots
- Vice President, Product & Project Management, Spark Networks (parent company of JDate)
- Director of Wireless Accounts, ICQ Mobile at AOL – in charge of relationships with 20 mobile operators worldwide
- Sr. Product Manager, Galleo (formerly e-Mobile) – where I was part of a team that built one of the first Mobile Multimedia Communicators running on Linux, the Galleo
- Software Engineer, Contact Networks
- Sr. Software Engineer, Amdocs
- Engineer, Tefen
I also severed as an adviser to several online & mobile media companies including MoMinis, BabyFirst.TV, Amadesa and ZIM.
Additional information can be found on my LinkedIn page.
Interests and Hobbies:
- Music – I enjoy listening to many genres, attend live shows and I play the drums and a have basic guitar playing skills which I hope to improve when I will have some spare times.
- Sports – football (aka soccer), swimming, skiing, mountain biking
- Technology - mobile, social application & online communities, search, usability
Contact:
Email: jayblog {at} meydad {dot} com
Online Identities:
My Posterous where I post photos, videos and songs I like
My Teams:
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israeli Football)
Hapoel Holon (Israeli Basketball)
Liverpool (English Football)
