Team Members
Our management team is leading the company to new heights. Focused and dedicated, these industry pioneers are passionate about delivering on product promises and evangelizing the value of our proprietary Web data monitoring technology.
Keith Cooper, CEO
As Connotate’s CEO, Keith Cooper leads the company’s strategic initiatives. Three of his most recent leadership roles include serving as President of Carbonite, an online backup company that grew to over 1 million customers, was ranked ninth on the Inc. 500 list, and completed a successful IPO in 2011; CEO at webHancer Corporation, a company Cooper led and successfully sold to Microsoft; and CEO of FaxNet, a leading provider of messaging solutions to large telecom companies which was acquired by Critical Path.
Keith brings more than 20 years of experience as President and CEO to Connotate with a proven record of successfully leading innovative technology companies to rapid growth and exceptional value. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard College, where he graduated with honors. He serves on the Board of the Smaller Business Association of New England and is the Chairman of the Harvard Rugby Alumni Association.
Keith Cooper’s News Items
Ryan Mulholland, President
Ryan Mulholland is President of Connotate. Prior to becoming part of the Connotate team, Ryan was the CEO of Fetch Technologies. Mulholland has held various senior management positions during his tenure at Fetch Technologies including SVP of Sales and COO. Mulholland is an Internet industry veteran, previously holding several senior positions at Endeca Technologies and Business Objects. Prior to joining Fetch, Mulholland was the Vice President of Sales for Vovici Technologies where he built and led the Strategic Account Team.
Mulholland received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California.
Ryan Mulholland’s News Items
Vincent Sgro, CTO
Vincent Sgro guides the development of Connotate's core technology. Prior to Connotate, Vincent served as research programmer for the computer science department at Rutgers University. He also served as the Internet evangelist at Rutgers, developing key Intranet and Internet sites to engage and benefit University students, professors, researchers and alumni.
Vincent is a published academic expert in compiler optimization technologies. He holds an MS and BS in Computer Science (cum laude) from Rutgers University.
Vincent Sgro’s News Items
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"Connotate Goes Home to Rutgers
Apr 25 2012
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"Rutgers Office of Technology Commercialization Annual Report 2009 - 2010
Oct 15 2010
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"Rutgers Economic Impact Report
May 13 2009
Matt Jacobson, Senior Vice President, Channels & Operations
Matt Jacobson leads Connotate's channels, services and operations areas. With over 20 years of high-tech industry experience and executive roles in two Deloitte Fast 500 companies, Matt has a wealth of knowledge regarding technology and business life cycles. His experience includes leadership and expertise in sales, partner relationships, software product development, consulting, research and development, professional services, customer support and project management.
Prior to starting his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Matt received a BS in Computer Science with Honors from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Matt Jacobson’s News Items
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"3 Key Questions about Big Data for Your Business: Part 3 – How do you rapidly gain advantages from Big Data?
May 10 2012
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"3 Key Questions about Big Data for Your Business: Part 2 – Why do you care?
Apr 19 2012
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"3 Key Questions about Big Data for Your Business: Part 1 - What is Big Data?
Apr 5 2012
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"Connotate and Information Evolution, Inc. Partner to Make Big Data Easy for Small Businesses
Jan 18 2012
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"Agent Surveillance of Web Data Delivers Unique Insights for Buy-Side Trading Decisions
Jun 16 2008
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"Connotate Appoints Matt Jacobson Vice President of Client Services
Jun 12 2007
Matt Jacobson’s Resources
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Work Smarter, Not Harder with Intelligent Agents
Jun 23 2011
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Connotate in Thomson Reuters
Jul 1 2011
Gina Cerami, Vice President of Marketing
Gina Cerami directs the marketing strategy for Connotate. She has more than 20 years of marketing and project management experience. For the past 15 years, she has focused on building brand awareness for a variety of solution providers, including Aspen Technology and Cendant Corporation’s Travelport Division.
Gina has a BS from Rutgers University and an MBA in Marketing and Quantitative Analysis from Seton Hall University.
Gina Cerami’s News Items
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"Invest in Data Aggregation and Monitoring Software for Your Business
May 10 2012
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"Find Out How to Implement Web Scraping (data aggregation and monitoring) in Your Business
May 9 2012
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"Never Settle for Less with the Best Web Scraping (Data Extraction) Software
May 5 2012
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"How to Invest in the Best Web Scraping Software
Apr 27 2012
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"Gather Information for Clients with Web Scraping
Apr 26 2012
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"Diversify Your Company with Web Scraping Software
Apr 25 2012
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"Are You Screen Scraping or Data Mining?
Apr 24 2012
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"Invest in Data Extraction to Grow Your Business
Apr 20 2012
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"Expand Your Potential by Using Web Data
Apr 19 2012
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"Benefit from Analytics of Web Data Mining
Apr 18 2012
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"Automatic Data Scraping Tools for Your Business
Apr 17 2012
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"Web Data Extraction Software Automates Your Business
Apr 10 2012
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"Ways to Incorporate Page Scraping into Your Business Intelligence Process
Apr 9 2012
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"Upgrade Your Data Mining Analytics Process Today
Apr 6 2012
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"Find New Growth Opportunities with Web Extraction
Apr 5 2012
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"Diversify Your Data with Website Data Extraction
Apr 4 2012
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"Where to Go for a Web Data Extractor
Mar 27 2012
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"Web Data Mining Leads to More Business for You
Mar 26 2012
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"Make the Most of Your Web Scraping Software
Mar 24 2012
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"Data Extraction Tools Streamline Your Vital Processes
Mar 22 2012
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"Bright Lights, Big Data: Why the Connotate and Fetch Pairing is Good for Big Data Web Extraction and Monitoring
Mar 19 2012
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"Software Data Mining is Never Out of Reach
Mar 16 2012
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"Research the Best Web Data Extraction Tools for Your Business
Mar 13 2012
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"Increase Productivity with Web Data Mining Software
Mar 12 2012
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"Improve the Accuracy of Your Data with Web Scraping Tools
Mar 8 2012
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"Get the Best Web Scraping Software for Your Company
Mar 7 2012
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"2012 The Year of Big Data (or Is It?) – 10 Experts Weigh In
Mar 7 2012
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"Dedicate Your Time and Money to Data Mining Analytics
Mar 5 2012
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"Why do Companies Rely on Web Extraction?
Mar 2 2012
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"Use Web Data Extraction Software to Upgrade your Business
Feb 29 2012
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"Become More Efficient with Website Data Extraction
Feb 28 2012
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"What Possibilities do you have for Data Extraction?
Feb 27 2012
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"What is Web Scraping?
Feb 25 2012
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"Learning the Details of Web Data Mining
Feb 24 2012
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"What Can You Do with Web Page Scraping?
Feb 22 2012
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"Data Scraping Laws and the Internet
Feb 21 2012
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"Do Your Homework on a Potential Web Data Extractor
Feb 21 2012
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"Automate Data Collection with Web Scraping Software
Feb 13 2012
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"Staffing and the Volume of Information are the Primary Big Data Challenges
Dec 20 2011
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"So You Want to Be Considered “The Source”…
Jan 25 2010
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"Web Scraping, Clipping, Encapsulation, Ripping, Surfacing… Call it What You Want – The Value of Web Data is Undeniable
Nov 10 2008
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"ROI-Rich Intelligent Agents: Automate Data Mining & Analysis for Financial Services
Sep 25 2008
Gina Cerami’s Resources
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Connotate in Thomson Reuters
Jul 1 2011
Isai Shenker, Vice President of Product Management
Isai Shenker sets and directs execution of the product strategy for Connotate. Most recently, he was SVP of Product Management at CONTEXTWEB – an integrated digital media services company. Isai’s broad technology and business knowledge is a result of over 20 years of experience in software product development, product management and business development. After starting his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he has served in leadership and key executive roles in both start-up and mature environments in such companies as JP Morgan, Call Sciences and IDT.
Isai holds a BS in Computer Science (summa cum laude) from Polytechnic University and an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Isai Shenker’s News Items
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"Looking for a needle in a Social Media haystack
Apr 9 2012
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"What matters in Big Data
Mar 27 2012
Christian Giaretta, Director of Client Services
Chris has a deep understanding of Connotate and its product giving him the skills and understanding to lead multi-stage deployments of Connotate’s Agent Community on a global scale. He has more than 10 years of client services experience; leading teams in project management, account management, training and integration efforts. He’s a proven liaison to Connotate’s customer community, with a deep understanding of customer applications.
Chris graduated from Rutgers College with a BA in English and Political Science.
Christian Giaretta’s News Items
Board of Directors
Liam Donohue, Co-Founder and Managing Director, .406 Ventures
For the last 15 years, Liam has been a venture investor – starting as a Principal at Foster Management, a venture investor focused on service industry investments; then co-founding Arcadia Partners, a fund focused on technology-enabled education companies; and finally, co-founding .406 Ventures. Over this time, Liam has invested over $75M of capital in 15 investments. He currently serves on the boards of .406 portfolio companies BIA, Connotate, EnergyHub, WellAWARE and WoodPellets.com. Liam also sat on the board of Health Dialog (an Arcadia and .406 company) until its sale to BUPA in January 2008.
Liam has a BS in Chemistry from Georgetown University, where he was a John Carroll Scholar, and earned an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
Graham Brooks, Principal, .406 Ventures
Graham Brooks is involved in all aspects of the investing and portfolio management process and also leads the university outreach initiatives. He brings nine years of technology-oriented operating, investing and start-up experience. Most recently, Graham was Business Development Manager at Bose Corporation where he led the team that identified, evaluated, and structured strategic investment and acquisition opportunities within the digital media and consumer products markets.
Graham is a Kauffman Fellow (Class of 2010). He received his MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business in 2002, where he was a Tuck Scholar; and his BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, Connotate Co-Founder and Professor, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
Dr. Tomasz Imielinski is a Professor in the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ, USA. He has pursued innovations in computer science, database mining and mobile wireless computing, publishing nearly 100 papers and two books on these subjects. In 1991, jointly with Rakesh Agrawal, he co-invented association rule mining, which became one of the key data mining techniques which is included in every major commercial software database package. His joint paper with Agrawal (SIGMOD 1993) is the most cited paper in machine learning and databases in the last ten years. Imielinski's wireless work, supported by industry through Wireless Information Networks Lab (WINLAB) and governmental agencies (DARPA, through the GLOMO program and NSF) includes location dependent information services for mobile users and the higher-level communication protocol support for mobile and wireless environments.
Dr. Imielinski is a coeditor of the book "Mobile Computing" (Kluwer, 1996). He is currently an associate editor for ACM/Baltzer Nomad — Journal of Wireless and Mobile Communications and Computing and editor of journal of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. In 1999, he was Program co-Chair for ACM/IEEE Mobicom 99, the primary conference in the area. He was also a founding chair of Voice browser working group at W3C at MIT.
He received his PhD from Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw) in 1982.
Kristin Sanborn, Managing Director, major Wall Street investment bank
Kristin has worked in investment banking for 15 years and is currently a Managing Director at a major Wall Street investment bank. From 1995 to 2001, she worked in structured finance for Bank of America (formerly NationsBank Capital Markets) and JP Morgan Chase (formerly Banc One Capital Markets). She transitioned to asset management while at BOCM in 2001 and oversaw the bank's retained technology, media and telecommunications loan portfolios. Joining her current firm in a similar capacity in 2004, she expanded her industry coverage to include not only TMT but also retail and consumer products.
Kristin has a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Business where she graduated with Distinction. She also earned an MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business where she was a Tuck Scholar.
