Management

Eldad leads Taboola’s worldwide operations driving the product development, sales and business development. He has two decades of track record in building technology companies in the US and in Israel. Prior to joining Taboola, Eldad held senior executive positions at BMC Software, Zend Technologies and Identify Software. At Identify Software Eldad played a key role in growing the company’s revenue from initial sales to a run-rate of over $60M.

Earlier in his career Eldad founded NextNine, a leading provider of remote support automation solutions. Eldad is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and spent five years in Israeli intelligence.

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.

Stephen heads Taboola’s global Sales Operations.

He came to the company as part of the acquisition of Perfect Market, Inc. and has extensive experience in operations, technology product development, business development and finance.

He has held positions in Idealab’s New Ventures Group and also led several of Idealab's portfolio companies, including Perfect Market.

Prior to Idealab, Stephen worked in the corporate strategic planning department at Disney and trained in business development, finance and information systems at General Electric, where he completed the company’s Financial Management and Information Systems Management programs.

Stephen has a BS in Computer Science and Finance from Boston College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Shelly joined Taboola as its first lawyer in 2014 after having served as its outside counsel for 1.5 years prior. She heads up Taboola's legal department and Taboola's global data and privacy work. In this capacity, she manages Taboola’s external and internal legal matters, including contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, privacy, internal governance, employment issues, operations, and litigation matters.

Prior to joining Taboola in 2014, Shelly was an attorney in the advertising, marketing and public relations department of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein and Selz PC, where she represented some of the world’s best-known brands, advertising agencies, and marketing and communication firms. Before practicing at Frankfurt Kurnit, Shelly was an associate in Loeb & Loeb’s Litigation department where she represented clients in film, music, television, theater, publishing and advertising. Her experience at Loeb & Loeb involved complex litigation over trademarks, copyrights, rights of privacy and publicity, and unfair competition.

Shelly is a graduate of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, magna cum laude, and Boston University, magna cum laude.

Ran heads Taboola's global product marketing, online marketing and field marketing. 

Prior to joining Taboola, Ran held executive marketing and product management positions at Zend, BMC Software, Identify Software, MusicGenome and others. Most recently, Ran served as VP Marketing at Leadspace, a pioneer in social lead targeting. 

Ran holds an MBA from University of Manchester and BA in Computer Science and Economics from Bar-Ilan University.

A veteran lawyer with over 30 years of experience, Ezra joined Taboola in May 2015. Prior to Taboola, Ezra served as General Counsel to several technology companies, including Shopping.com (from its founding through its successful NASDAQ IPO and its subsequent sale to Ebay) and also Powermat Technologies. Previously, he was a partner in major commercial law firms in Tel Aviv and New York State.

Ezra earned his law degree at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the New York Bar and the Israel Bar Association.

Tom heads up Strategy for Taboola and focuses on leading strategic product and business initiatives aimed at driving rapid growth in the mid and long term.

Prior to joining Taboola, Tom led Deloitte Consulting's Technology and Healthcare & Life Sciences practice in Israel. Tom holds degrees in Law and in Business Administration with a major in Information Technology from The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.

Vered is VP and General Manager of Taboola News.

Prior to Taboola, Vered was VP Business Development at Landa Labs, CEO of HumanEyes Technologies, CEO of Yalicoo and headed the Prepaid Products Group at IDT Telecom (NYSE: IDT).

Vered had an extensive global career as a Management Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York, A.T. Kearney in Paris and Shaldor in Tel Aviv and in addition founded her own consultancy, DaLi Advisory. Vered served as a board member on several public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. She also taught strategy and consulting at IDC, one of Israel’s leading academic institutes.

Vered holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in economics and French literature from Tel Aviv University.