Management

Bill Stasior President	Bill Stasior joined Amazon.com in 2003 as Director of Search and Navigation while helping to create A9.com. In early 2004, Bill moved to Palo Alto as VP of Engineering of A9.com where he now serves as President. Prior to joining A9 and Amazon, Bill was the Director of Advanced Development at AltaVista and Vice President of Engineering at AlterEgo Networks. Bill has extensive experience in networks and multimedia systems as well as computer vision and data analysis. Bill has been developing a wide range of Internet-based applications and search solutions since the earliest days of the World Wide Web. Bill holds a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and was a CSDL Laboratory Fellow at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Andrew Hamel Vice President Search Technology	Andrew Hamel joined A9.com in 2008 where he serves as Vice President of Search Technology. Andrew brings over 20 years of tech industry experience and a unique skill set anchored in product innovation, strategic business development, and professional services. His background spans consumer-hosted Internet services, consumer products, and enterprise software. Before coming to A9.com, Andrew served as VP at TiVo and at Tacit Knowledge Systems. He also co-founded Propel with Steve Kirsch, and was General Manager of the GO Network Auction Business Unit at Infoseek Corporation. Andrew holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Chico.
Tamar Yehoshua Vice President Advertising Technology	Tamar Yehoshua joined A9.com in 2004 where she serves as Vice President of Advertising Technology. Prior to A9.com, Tamar was Vice President of Engineering at Reasoning, Inc., where she was responsible for technology development of Reasoning's automated software inspection service. Tamar also served as Vice President of Engineering for Noosh, Inc., a B2B e-commerce platform provider. In her previous roles, Tamar was an engineering manager for Intel's Microprocessor Design Technology group and a Senior Developer/Analyst for Northwestern's Institute for the Learning Sciences. Tamar holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Hebrew University.
Gautam Bhargava Vice President Visual Search	Gautam Bhargava joined A9.com in 2009 as Vice President of Visual Search. Most recently, Gautam served as CEO of SnapTell, a company he co-founded. Gautam also co-founded Vialto Corporation (acquired by Cisco), where he was the CTO & VP Engineering. In his previous roles, Gautam held senior kernel-engineering and management positions at TimesTen Performance Software, IBM Silicon Valley Lab and Silicon Graphics. For more than 20 years, Gautam has been a part of teams that build innovative software solutions. Gautam holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur. He has been granted twenty-one patents as co-inventor in the area of data mining and database technology and published papers in prestigious journals such as TKDE, SIGMOD, etc.
G.D. Ramkumar (Ram) Chief Architect Visual Search	G.D. Ramkumar (Ram) joined A9.com in 2009 as Chief Architect for Visual Search. Ram brings over fifteen years of R&D experience in developing scalable software systems. Before coming to A9.com, Ram was co-founder and CTO at SnapTell. Formerly, he was Senior Software Architect in the CTO Office of McDATA, responsible for the company's overall software strategy. He joined McDATA via the acquisition of startup Sanera Systems, where he led the system software architecture. He has been granted three patents, with seven more pending, and has published and presented over fifteen research papers in international journals and conferences. Ram has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He earned a President’s Gold Medal for the best undergraduate academic record at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Diana Sutter Vice President Human Resources	Diana Sutter joined A9.com in 2003 as Vice President of Human Resources. Diana brings 20 years of human resources experience to the company where she defines and implements all aspects of HR strategy, operations, and programs. Prior to joining A9.com, Diana led human resources and organizational development teams for companies such as Netcentives, Post Communications, Inc., Tenth Planet Explorations, and Summit Organization, Inc. Building and implementing human resource and operations infrastructures that can support rapid company growth in addition to effectively orchestrating corporate change is her passion. Diana holds a B.S. in Human Services from the College of Notre Dame.

Principal Advisors

In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc., now the leading online retailer that offers services which traditional retailers cannot: lower prices, authoritative selection, and a wealth of product information. With Amazon.com, Jeff created a business model that leveraged the Internet's unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently.

Prior to starting Amazon.com, Jeff worked at the intersection of computer science and finance, helping build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D. E. Shaw & Co. He also led the development of computer systems that helped manage more than $250 Billion in assets for Bankers Trust Company.

Jeff Blackburn joined Amazon in 1998. He has served in a number of senior positions. Currently, he is Senior Vice President, Business Development. Other positions he has held at Amazon include Vice President, European Customer Service and Vice President, Operations Integration.

Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1998, Jeff was Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

Tom Szkutak joined Amazon.com in October 2002 to serve as the company's chief financial officer and senior vice president. As CFO he oversees the company's overall financial activities, including controllership, tax, treasury, analysis, investor relations, internal audit and financial operations.

Before joining Amazon.com, Tom served as CFO for GE Lighting, where he managed a division with $3 billion in annual revenue and more than 33,000 employees around the world.