NetSeer, Inc. is a technology start-up focused on next generation search and ad targeting. Based upon pioneering work by its founders out of UCLA, NetSeer’s technology is based upon a significant body of intellectual property, and uses sophisticated mathematics and unique, new algorithms to make advances that were previously unattainable in Internet advertising. NetSeer was founded as a company in March 2006 and is located in Santa Clara, CA. Investors include Onset Ventures and Mission Ventures. 

Most recently, John was Vice President and General Manager of Distributed Commerce at Shopping.com where he ran the company's advertising network and was responsible for merchant sales and service, product management, business development as well as partner account management. Prior to Shopping.com, John was Vice President of Advertising Products at Yahoo where he managed both graphical and display ad products and oversaw the introduction of Yahoo's SmartAds. Previous roles included: President of AdKnowledge, a pioneer in the early days of online advertising management and measurement, as well as CEO of Covia, an Enterprise Software company. John earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Computer Science from MIT. Matthew Hall brings to NetSeer over twenty years experience in managing and developing scalable mission critical software. Before joining NetSeer, he was Vice President, Engineering at Yahoo! where he was responsible for matching, serving and marketplace development for Sponsored Search and Content Match. He previously served as Vice President, Engineering for Efficient Frontier, where he recruited and guided a world-class engineering group from startup stage through release of a reliable, scalable and profitable product; the company developed into the worldwide market and technology leader in Search Engine Marketing, PPC management and bid monetization services. Before Efficient Frontier, Matthew was Vice President, Engineering for Inktomi Corporation, where he was responsible for the web search product that served Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN. Matthew began his career working on climate models and global warming for the U.S. Department of Energy. He has a bachelor's degree in Physics from Magdalen College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Imperial College, London.

Before joining NetSeer, Rahul Lahiri was the Vice President of Search Products at Ask.com. Rahul was responsible for overseeing the next generation of the company's proprietary algorithmic search technology and its implementation into the Ask consumer search products. Prior to joining Ask, Rahul was at the Inktomi Corporation, a provider of search and network caching software to enterprise and web portals. During his tenure, Rahul filled product management roles in the Search division. As Director of Product Management for Search, Rahul was tasked with defining and validating Inktomi's expansion into the enterprise search market, and identifying partner and/or acquisition opportunities that would lead to the development of enterprise product solutions. Rahul received both a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bill has over 25 years of experience and progressive responsibility within the marketing research, online advertising, and information industries, including 16 years at A.C. Nielsen. Aware of the web's emergence as a viable new medium, Bill joined I/PRO in 1996, the web’s first website traffic verification service. As one of the company's original architects, he built, managed, and developed I/PRO’s Account Management and Sales organizations, eventually being appointed President until 2004 when the company changed ownership. Shortly after, Bill joined TACODA to launch their west coast operation and spent 4 years building the TACODA Audience Networks which was acquired by AOL in October of 2007. Most recently, Bill served as SVP of Publisher Services for Asterpix. Behnam A. Rezaei leads NetSeer's team in the design and implementation of its technological innovations. The primary inventor of the company's ten patent applications to date, Behnam has a broad range of expertise including complex systems, random networks, information dynamics, and distributed and P2P networking and information processing, and is widely published in scientific and technical publications. Prior to founding NetSeer, Behnam was a lead researcher on several projects in spam filtering, identification of the structure and dynamics in large-scale biological networks, and the development of P2P network clients. He was also a lead developer of UCLA's BruNet P2P network client at the university's complex systems laboratory. Behnam received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Vwani Roychowdhury, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, established the theoretical foundation of NetSeer's groundbreaking technology. An internationally recognized researcher in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering and computer science, Professor Roychowdhury is known for innovative problem solving in the fields of learning theory and systems, statistical modeling and processing of large-scale and high dimensional datasets, peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and complex systems, distributed and parallel processing, bioinformatics, quantum computing and nanoelectronics. He has consulted with major corporations including Intel, HP, AT&T, IBM and Warner Bros., has co-authored three books on artificial intelligence and neural networks, has written over 150 technical and scientific publications, holds two U.S. patents, and was recently featured by The New Scientist, Nature, The Guardian, and the BBC for his breakthroughs in social networks and dynamics, spam filtering and P2P networking. Dr. Roychowdhury received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.