Apostolos Gerasoulis

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Apostolos Gerasoulis
Born (1952-08-19) August 19, 1952 (age 69)
Alma mater Stony Brook University
OccupationExecutive Vice President, Search Technology of Ask.com
Spouse(s)Xiaolan Zhang (1994–present) [1]
Children2

Apostolos Gerasoulis is a Greek professor of computer science at Rutgers University, [2] and the co-creator of Teoma, [3] an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com, [4] [5] which Apostolos co-founded along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. [6] Apostolos later went on to serve as the vice president of search technology at Ask.com, before leaving the company in 2010. [7] Gerasoulis has appeared in TV commercials for Ask.com. [8] [9]

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