Taboola Board Members

Adam Singolda

Founder & CEO

Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month.

Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more.

Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.


Zvi Limon

Chairman of the Board & Private Investor

Zvi has been an investor in public and private technology companies since 1990. In the late 90’s, Zvi co-founded Magma Venture Partners and still is a General Partner of the firm.

In his early career Zvi was a management consultant at Bain & Co. London and at Shaldor Ltd. in Israel.

Zvi serves on the board of directors of several private and publicly traded companies.

Zvi holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in Economics and Business Administration from The Bar Ilan University.


Erez Shachar

Managing Partner Evergreen Venture Partners

Erez joined Evergreen in the beginning of 2004 as a managing partner, and focuses on Evergreen’s investments in the Software, Internet and New Media sectors.

Erez joined Evergreen from NUR Macroprinters Ltd. (acquired by HP), where he served as CEO and President since 1997. Under his direction, NUR increased its revenues sevenfold by significantly penetrating global markets. Company sales increased from $16 million to over $120 million per year in less than four years. From his position as the CEO of a publicly-traded company on NASDAQ and a world-wide leader in its field, Erez has significant operational and managerial experience as well as first-hand experience with international capital markets.

Prior to joining NUR, Erez held several senior managerial positions at Scitex Corporation (NASDAQ: SCIX), where he began as a software engineer. Erez holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel-Aviv University and has an MBA from INSEAD. Erez was Evergreen’s representative on the Boards of Traiana, which was sold to ICAP for $251M and of Identify, which was acquired by BMC Software for $150M. Erez is currently acting as a board member in Taboola, Varonis, Press-sense, e-Glue and Aniboom.


Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres

Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital

Chemi is a Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital, Israel largest VC Group.

Mr. Peres is also Chairman of Al-Bawader, Israel’s first VC fund focused on the Israeli Minorities’ Sectors, and serves as chairman of TakwinLabs, an Incubator focused on these sector.

Mr. Peres is Founder and Chairman of Amelia, a Middle East PE Fund. In 1992 he founded the Mofet Israel Technology Fund, one of Israel’s first VC funds, traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Chemi gained extensive experience as an investor and a board member of several publicly traded companies on NASDAQ and NYSE such as Aladdin Knowledge Systems, AudioCodes, BackWeb, Koor Industries, Vocaltec and Voltaire to mention a few. He serves on the boards of numerous privately held companies such as Via Transportation, Radwin and Idomoo among others.

Prior to his Venture Capital activities Mr. Peres was an executive at Decision Systems Israel, and a senior consultant to Israel Aerospace Industries. He holds an MBA degree and a BSc degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from Tel Aviv University.

Chemi is chairman of the Peres center for peace & Innovation, and is on the board of directors of SFI (Social Finance Israel). He is also chairman of the advisory board of Impact1st, Israel leading social technology impact investment fund.

Mr. Peres co-founded Israel Venture Association (a.k.a. IATI – Israel Advanced Technology Industries) and served as its Chairman (2003-2004). He also chaired the Israel America Chamber of Commerce (2008-2011). Mr. Peres is a board member in additional non-for-profit organizations.


Rick Scanlon

Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors

Rick is a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors. He joined the firm in 2017 when Innovation Endeavors merged with Marker LLC, a New York and Israel-based venture capital firm Rick co-founded in 2011.

Prior to Marker, Rick was a managing partner at Crescent Point, a Singapore-based venture and private equity firm he co-founded in 2003. After sixteen years of living in Asia, Rick moved back to the US and launched Marker. At Marker, he invested in a number of industry leading high-growth technology companies including Yext, Datorama, Taboola, and Team8.

Earlier in his career, Rick was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He earned a BA from Middlebury College, where he concentrated on art and physics. He is currently a member of the of Middlebury College Board of Trustees.


Deirdre Bigley

Chief Marketing Officer at Bloomberg LP

Deirdre currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer of Bloomberg, L.P., a global business and
financial information and news leader. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she spent thirteen years at IBM, where
she held several executive positions, including Vice President of Worldwide Advertising and Interactive,
and Vice President of Worldwide Brand. Ms. Bigley currently serves as a member of the board of
directors of Wix.com Ltd. and Shutterstock, Inc. She also serves as a member of the board of directors of
Sportradar, Recorded Future, Slice and MAKERS.


Lynda Clarizio

Co-Founder of Brilliant Friends Investing

Lynda Clarizio has over 20 years of experience in the media industry growing and scaling businesses
with a focus on data and technology. She currently is the Co-Founder of Brilliant Friends Investing, a
seed investment group of C-suite women funding women-led businesses. Ms. Clarizio most recently
served as President of U.S. Media at Nielsen, Executive Vice President at AppNexus, and Chief
Executive Officer at INVISION. She previously held a variety of executive positions with AOL, including
President of Advertising.com. Ms. Clarizio also serves on the boards of directors of CDW, Intertek Group,
Emerald, Simpli.fi and OpenSlate and is the Vice-Chair of Human Rights First.