Seevast Management Team

Jaan Janes President, Business & Product Development of Seevast

Jaan Janes is the President of Business & Product Development of Seevast. 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.

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Jeff Kamikow President, Sales & Operations of Seevast

Jeff Kamikow is President of Sales & Operations for Seevast. Kamikow has over 15 years of Publishing experience. He joined Seevast from Time inc, where he was the National Advertising Director for Field & Stream and Outdoor life print, digital, tv and events businesses. At Time Inc, Kamikow led a team that sold integrated marketing programs to clients like, Jack Daniels, Nissan and Toyota.

Kamikow began his career in 1993 with Ziff Davis Publications where he sold both print and digital media for PC Magazine. During Kamikow.s 10 year run at Ziff Davis he managed PC Magazine offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. In 2000 he took over as East Coast Director of Corporate Sales. Kamikow and his teams sold global integrated media packages to Dell, Gateway, Microsoft, HP and IBM.

Kamikow is a graduate of Southern Illinois University.

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Dave Casion Chief Technology Officer

Dave Casion brings years of practical experience in developing performance driven, low cost, and scalable infrastructures based on open source technologies. Prior to becoming Chief Technology Officer of Seevast, Casion was CTO of Kanoodle from 2002-2006 and has also held leadership positions at IBM, Pinnacle Software and CFOKnows. Casion has founded several successful internet technology businesses and served as the technical operations manager for a popular computer manufacturer.

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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 Seevast 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.

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Sahil Gambhir Vice President of Product Management

Sahil Gambhir is Vice President of Product Management of Seevast. 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 Seevast 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.

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Kent Keating Chairman of the Board

Kent Keating has served as Chairman of the Board since Seevast's inception in 2006. Keating was originally the founder of Kanoodle, where he envisioned the opportunity for a bid-for-location search engine as a result of his experience in marketing Life Images, a previous business venture.

Prior to founding Kanoodle, Keating founded a franchise oriented business that leveraged two of Keating's U.S. patents on a photo sculpting process. This oriented business placed 1,200 people in 38 countries into the Life Images business.

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