Adam Singolda | Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Adam leads Taboola’s business strategy, execution and development while maintaining the company’s unique culture of quantification and innovation.
Prior to founding Taboola, Adam developed his analytical skills while serving as an officer in an elite mathematical unit of the Israeli National Security Agency (don’t ask, he can’t tell you).
Adam is an honored alum of the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite Mamram computer science training program, graduated first in his class at the Officers Academy of the IDF, and was recently named one of Israel’s top “30 under 30” business managers by TheMarker.
Adam authors a column for Mediapost on the video industry and is a regular speaker for Steaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, The Israel Conference, MIT (Sloan) and others.
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Lior Golan | Chief Technology Officer and Taboola Israel GM
Lior leads Taboola’s product and technical strategy in Israel. Prior to joining Taboola, Lior was co-founder, CTO and VP R&D of Cyota, a leader in consumer Internet security. He was instrumental in Cyota’s pioneering use of machine learning tools within the authentication market. After Cyota was acquired by RSA in 2005, Lior spent two years at RSA as CTO & VP strategy and was responsible for leading the product and business direction of its consumer business. Lior graduated from prestigious Talpiot program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and spent eight years in Israeli intelligence, where he was presented with the Israel Defense Award. Follow on Twitter, Linkedin Follow @liorgo
Ira Silberstein | Senior Vice President Publishers and Client Services
Ira is responsible for evangelizing Taboola’s video discovery tools, onboarding new clients and managing all publisher relations. A veteran in the internet space, Ira has held senior leadership roles at NYTimes.com, most recently that of VP Product for NYTimes.com, covering its mobile, video, social, email, classified and editorial products. Ira previously served as Director of Business Development at NYTimes.com and as Director Business Development at theglobe.com. He has also worked in film production and distribution at New Line Cinema.
Ira has an MBA from Columbia University and BS in ComputerScience from Hofstra University.
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Hagai Gold | Vice President of Finance
Hagai oversees Taboola’s financial, accounting and operational functions.
Prior to joining Taboola, he served as Finance and Administration manager of RSA Security Israel and as assistant controller at Oracle Israel following three years at Deloitte Israel.
Hagai is a CPA and holds B.A. , M.A. and MBA degrees from Bar-Ilan University.
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