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Eran Shir

Co Founder & CEO at Nexar Inc.

Israel

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    $50,000.00
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Education

Work Experience

  • Co Founder & CEO

    2015

  • Board member

    1994

    The Israel Center of Excellence through Education is a renowned national non-profit organization in Israel which focuses on finding and cultivating young excellent students to fulfill their full potential. I had the privilege to serve as a director on the board from 1994 until 2008, and I continue to be a patron of this great institution.

2013 - 2014

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2013 - 2014

    Ushering the future.

2010 - 2013

  • Senior Director & Head, Creative Innovation Center

    2010 - 2013

    After joining Yahoo! in late 2010, I was commissioned with the task of building a new engineering team inside Yahoo! called the Creative Innovation Center (CIC). The CIC is a global team based in part on Dapper's engineering team, that works on the technologies for the next generation of creatives across mobile, video, dynamic and rich media ads.

2006 - 2010

  • Cofounder and CEO

    2006 - 2010

    Together with Jon Aizen, I confounded Dapper, a revolutionary web service in the fields of semantic web and digital marketing. Dapper was acquired by Yahoo! on Oct. 2010

  • Doctoral candidate and DIMES project manager

    2003 - 2006

    In late 2003, I founded, together with Dr. Yuval Shavitt, the DIMES Internet research project, a volunteer computing project aiming to measure the structure of the Internet. The project has become a large success with thousands of users and more than five billion measurements to date

2001 - 2003

  • CTO & Founder

    2001 - 2003

    I was a co-founder and the main technological figure for the initial phase of this Israeli-based StartUp. Went back to the academic world in Oct. 2003 to found the DIMES project