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Jeremy Bondy is Liftoff’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors. Prior to becoming CEO in May 2022, Jeremy served as Liftoff’s President following the company’s merger with Vungle in October 2021. Prior to that, Jeremy served as Vungle’s CEO, beginning in 2020. During his tenure at Vungle, Jeremy built a unified strategy across Vungle’s 11 global offices, representing a publisher base of more than 100,000 active apps, an advertiser base of over 4,500 companies, and leveraging the #1 creative team at scale in the industry. He also spearheaded the company’s inorganic growth strategy, diversifying Vungle’s SaaS offering with the acquisitions of AlgoLift, GameRefinery, and TreSensa, and the company’s emergence in the rapidly growing creator economy with the acquisition of JetFuel.

Tarek Kutrieh is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Liftoff. Prior to joining Liftoff, Tarek was CFO of VCA Animal Hospitals, the largest network of veterinary hospitals in North America. Prior to that, Tarek held several finance positions at Activision Blizzard. Before joining Activision Blizzard, Tarek was CFO and later President at Directed, parent company to consumer electronics brands Viper and Clifford. Before that, Tarek was an Operating Partner at The Gores Group, a $4 billion private equity fund focused on middle market investments. He started his career with McKinsey & Company.

Tarek holds an MBA in finance and marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, as well as a BS in electrical engineering with distinction from Purdue University.

Harry Robertson is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Liftoff. He is responsible for the company’s high-performance, high-ownership engineering culture, deep-diving on machine learning initiatives, and setting our performance technology roadmap. Prior to Liftoff, Harry led engineering teams building video analytics and monetization tech, founded a top location-based social network on the iPhone, and built autonomous robots for DARPA. Harry holds a masters in computer science from Stanford University and an MS in mathematics and computer science from École Polytechnique in France.

Phil Crosby is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Liftoff. His areas of focus include data visualization, data science, and user experience. Prior to Liftoff, he worked as a software engineer building mobile apps in the early days of the iOS App Store, and building video delivery players for the web, both of which have been used by hundreds of millions of people. In his spare time, Phil enjoys creating developer tools and working on open source projects like Vimium. Phil received his BS in computer science from the University of Maryland.

Susan Rickard Hansen has served as Liftoff’s General Counsel since August of 2018. From being an Assistant District Attorney to becoming one of the youngest partners at the respected law firm of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, Susan has represented a broad range of clients, many of whom are growth-oriented startup companies and small businesses. While representing these companies, Susan learned an appreciation for the business side of transactions. She uses this experience to advise and assist Liftoff in building a profitable business and highly productive teams, focusing on employment-related legal matters and developing compliance and privacy strategies.

Scott Silverman is the Chief Revenue Officer of Liftoff, joining the company in 2021 after its merger with Vungle where he held the same role. Prior to Vungle, Scott was a co-founder and CRO of AerServ, a leading mobile in-app exchange and mediation platform. Scott oversaw the sale of AerServ to InMobi, where he went on to lead InMobi’s programmatic exchange and global business development as the VP & GM, Marketplace. Scott’s prior experience also includes various sales, finance, and strategy roles at companies such as Google, dMarc Broadcasting (sold to Google), Brand Affinity Technologies, Classified Ventures, Tribune, PwC, KPMG, and several others.

Scott graduated with high honors from Indiana University and received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was named a Siebel Scholar.

Kristin Seuell leads the Liftoff People team, overseeing global talent management, people operations, employee experience, total rewards, and DEI initiatives. Prior to Liftoff, Kristin led people operations at a leading and successfully exited localization automation SaaS company. Before a career pivot to people operations, Kristin held corporate communications roles at tech leaders eBay and Skype.