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Tomer Kagan | |
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| Born | October 17, 1983[ citation needed ] |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Occupation | former Chief Strategy Officer of Quixey |
Tomer Kagan (born October 17, 1983)[ citation needed ] is an Israeli American [1] businessman and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of search startup Quixey. [2]
Kagan was born in Haifa, Israel, and moved to Sunnyvale, California with his family at age four. [3] He holds a bachelor's degree in biology from University of California, Santa Cruz, [1] and claims to have paid his way through college by starting the T-shirt company Static Printing. [4] [5] While in college, he founded and led a chapter of the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. [1] After graduating, he also founded the branding company Your Logo Here. [3]
Kagan co-founded Quixey in 2009. [5] He met his co-founder Liron Shapira, as well as many Quixey employees, through the Jewish youth organization BBYO, [3] of which he is a "longstanding member". [1] In 2011, Forbes Magazine named him one of their "30 under 30" in technology for Quixey's success. [6] According to Kagan, his aim was for Quixey to compete directly with Google in the search market. [7]
Kagan has spoken at the Mobile World Congress and World Economic Forum. [1] He is a volunteer advisor for a chapter of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the fraternity branch of BBYO. [3] Kagan is also a board member of [3] and donor to [8] the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an artificial intelligence nonprofit, and is a supporter of effective altruism. [1] He identifies as a "futurist", and works with the National Science Foundation on emerging technologies. [9] [10]
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