Eldad Maniv

President & COO

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 Golan

CTO

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 Walker

SVP, Global Sales Operations

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.

Yoav Naveh

SVP, People Operations

Yoav Naveh is currently SVP, People Operations at Taboola. He previously served as Vice President of Video at Taboola, following its acquisition of outstream video SSP ConvertMedia, which he co-founded and served as CEO. After successfully integrating video into Taboola’s offering, he is now responsible for supporting Taboola’s growth through recruitment, analytics and organizational development.

Prior to founding ConvertMedia, Yoav spent twelve years building predictive systems for online advertising and internet security startups. He served as Captain in the elite technological unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps for six years and received multiple awards including "Creative and Innovative Thinking" and "The Annual Award of Excellence."

Upon completing his military service, Yoav went on to receive a degree in mathematics and computer science at Tel Aviv University.

Ran Gishri

VP, Marketing

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.

Lihi Lutan

VP, Corporate Operations & Controls

Lihi currently serves as Taboola's VP Corporate Operations & Controls, overlooking cross company needs to formalize operations and putting in place required controls. She joined Taboola in 2012 as VP, Professional Services, building and scaling the various company’s delivery and technical support units globally.

Lihi brings to Taboola a strong operational and execution background at global businesses. Prior to Taboola, Lihi managed global projects at Thomson Reuters and at Fundtech, following 4 years at Cyota (later acquired by RSA security) as a team leader and a project manager.

She holds a BA in Computer Science and an LLB in Law from Tel Aviv University.

Ezra Katzen

Corporate Counsel and Secretary

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.

Elad Simon

VP, Low Touch and Media Operations

Elad joined Taboola in 2016 as VP of Media SMB and Media Operations. Elad brings to Taboola a mix of Marketing and General Management experience from his previous roles in global blue chip companies. Before Taboola, Elad worked at Google where he led Google's EMEA SMB Marketing efforts and later on Google's SMB digital skills initiatives across Europe. Prior to that, Elad worked at Barclays bank in London where he held several strategy and operations roles within the bank's Wealth Management arm, Barclays Wealth.

Elad has an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Sc. with honors in Mathematics, Economics and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.