Amir Ashkenazi is an American-Israeli entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and founder of Switchboard and former CEO of Adap.tv, which was purchased by AOL for $405 million in 2013. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Ashkenazi co-founded Adap.tv in 2007 and was CEO until 2014. [7]
After the sale, the company became a division of AOL Platforms, of which Ashkenazi is president. [8] Before Adap.tv, he was co-founder and chief technology officer of Shopping.com, which was acquired by eBay for $620 million in 2005.
Ashkenazi studied engineering and computer science at Tel-Aviv University. [9]
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