User:Lpflager/JoeZawadzki

Joe Zawadzki (born May 14th, 1974), is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MediaMath, a Demand Side Platform (DSP). MediaMath was named the AlwaysOn OnMedia2010 Category Winner for Advertising Networks and Exchanges. Previously, he was founder and President/Chairman of [x+1], a marketing optimization company that was named one of Inc. 500's Fastest Growing Companies. He has consulted clients such as Google/DoubleClick and AOL on their yield and optimization technologies.

Biography
Joe was born in London, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario before attending Harvard University where he earned a BA in English. He was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory, and the history of science.

Joe is committed to philanthropy and is involved with Hope for Vision, an organization that raises money for the development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases, with particular focus on retinal degenerative diseases.

He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria Elise and two children, Dune Rose (born June 21, 2004) and Jack Milo (born Dec 21, 2005).

Career
With founding MediaMath in August 2007, Joe invented the first Demand Side Platform (DSP) which gives digital advertisers access to advanced data and technologies that work across real-time media buying (RTB) capabilities.

Joe has played a role in creating digital advertising innovations, including dynamic creative, audience and site optimization, container pixels, attribution modeling, and biddable media. Joe incubated Right Media (now owned by Yahoo), the first online media exchange.

He has appeared as a speaker and panelist at advertising industry events, including ad:tech, the Monaco Media Forum, IAB, DMA, MediaPost, Google, AdMeld, Exelate, Yahoo.

He has contributed and/or been quoted in articles appearing in The New York Times, Mediapost, ClickZ, AdMap, and AdExchanger.

Patents
Joe holds a U.S. Patent #20020188508 for an “Online System and Method for Dynamic Segmentation and Content Presentation.”

Investment Activity
Joe is an active angel investor and has incubated and invested in ad technology companies.

He also invests in technology, real estate, and film as a managing director of Porcellian Capital, LLC, a seed and Series A stage investment fund.