Our people make up the DNA of Singular
Our people are everything, and we’re not just saying that.
Our leadership team
Gadi Eliashiv
CEO & Co-founder
Susan Kuo
COO & Co-founder
Eran Friedman
CTO & Co-founder
Vince Cortese
President
Gadi Eliashiv
CEO & Co-founder
After leading a team of Technologists for 8200, the most elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Army, Gadi founded Singular with the belief that simplified and unified marketing data is the key to unlocking growth. Prior to Singular, Gadi was Head of Research at Onavo, a mobile analytics company acquired by Facebook in 2013.
Susan Kuo
COO & Co-founder
Susan’s extensive background in mobile ad tech, analytics, and gaming was integral in the creation of Singular. Before founding Singular, she held senior leadership roles at Onavo and InMobi. As an active member of the mobile community, she serves on the advisory board for several mobile-focused startups.
Eran Friedman
CTO & Co-founder
Eran Friedman is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Singular, a marketing intelligence platform. Eran has extensive background in building and scaling core technology infrastructures, and leads innovation, technology, and well as core product development. In May 2019, Eran was recognized by Juniper Research as one of ‘Digital Advertising’s Movers and Shakers,’ in a report on digital advertising, fraud, and AI. Prior to Singular, Eran was the Head of Engineering at Onavo, acquired by Facebook in 2013, where he played a significant role in the development of one of the most well respected engineering teams, known today as Facebook’s tech headquarters in Israel.
Vince Cortese
President
Vince has over 20 years of sales leadership experience in Digital Marketing with a history of delivering exceptional sales growth. Vince joined Singular from Kenshoo where he ran Global Field Operations over the last 3 years were he scaled revenue from $75 M to $125 M. Prior to Kenshoo he was GM at SDL where he rebuilt America's GTM function. He has held various sales leadership roles at Adobe over a 6 year period in their build out of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Vince has built a successful career focused on leading top-tier sales organizations in building solutions for marketers to optimize their digital marketing efforts across all channels. Vince holds a BS in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from USC.
Our board of directors
Scott Beechuk
Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Trevor Oelschig
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Don Butler
Managing Director, Thomvest
Chris Capps
Partner, Method Capital
Toshi Otani
Co-founder & Managing Director, Translink Captial
Mark Sherman
Managing Director, Titanium Ventures
Scott Beechuk
Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Scott Beechuk brings over 20 years of product management, engineering, and SaaS expertise to his role as a partner on the enterprise investment team at Norwest Venture Partners. Throughout his career, Scott served as Senior Vice President of Product at Salesforce, co-founded multiple companies and has served as an advisor and angel investor to several startups.
Trevor Oelschig
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Trevor focuses his time at General Catalyst on the application layer with special attention paid to user-centric products with a sneaky potential to become hugely useful in enterprises. He also spends time on the underlying picks & shovels that help developers build great software and keep systems up and running.
Before joining General Catalyst, he spent nine years at Bessemer where he worked with Clio, Instructure (NYSE: INST), PagerDuty, Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), 2U (NASDAQ: TWOU), and Zopa.
Don Butler
Managing Director, Thomvest
Don works with entrepreneurs in the financial technology, advertising technology, and enterprise software-as-a-service markets. Don currently serves on the Board of Directors for companies in each of these focus areas including Apsalar, DataXu, and Vungle (in the adtech space), Kabbage (in the fintech space), and Axcient and NetBase (in the enterprise SaaS space). Together with the team at Thomvest, prior investments include Lending Club (NYSE: LC), FlashSoft (acquired by SanDisk), GuardianEdge (acquired by Symantec), and Okena (acquired by Cisco). Prior to Thomvest, Don led the Asian business development efforts for several startup companies in the multidimensional data analysis and networking industries as part of his work with Asia Pacific Ventures. He also spent three years as an Analyst with Lehman Brothers, where he worked with clients in the software and semiconductor industries. Don received a B.A. in Chinese from UCLA and M.A.s in both East Asian Studies and Political Science from Stanford University.
Chris Capps
Partner, Method Capital
Chris Capps focuses on deal sourcing and portfolio company management. Chris was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Method Capital, where he oversaw all investments and operational activities. Chris is an active early stage investor in technology-enabled businesses and has deep contacts within the technology community throughout the world. Chris earned a BA degree in History from Southern Methodist University. Chris serves on the boards of Ranir Corporation, Lime Energy, Afrimax Group, Virgin Mobile Central and Eastern Europe, HighGround, Rippleshot, Semantify, and Singular.
Toshi Otani
Co-founder & Managing Director, Translink Captial
Toshi invests in cloud, mobile, infrastructure, and IoT companies with an enterprise focus. He also leads Translink’s activities, supporting portfolio companies with their customers and partners, primarily in Japan. Toshi's active current investments include Chartboost, Empowerly, Noom, Omniscience, Pathmind, Rescale, Singular, Top Flight Technologies and Workspot. Noteworthy past investments include CliQr (ACQ: Cisco), CloudOn (ACQ: Dropbox), deCarta (ACQ: Uber), Guavus (ACQ: Thales), and Wildfire (ACQ: Google). Toshi holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University. Toshi is most excited to be working with founding teams that are aggressive yet humble at the same time. He is also an aspiring golfer, an accomplished skier, and loves to spend time outdoors.
Mark Sherman
Managing Director, Titanium Ventures
Mark joined Telstra Ventures as a Managing Director in 2012. Previously, he was a General Partner at Hidden Lion Partners, an emerging growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled services. Previously, he was a General Partner at Battery Ventures where he led the firm’s enterprise IT and India investment practices with investments in Coupa, Mformation, Neoteris, and Tejas. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Robertson Stephens & Company, where he ran its software investment banking practice working with companies such as BEA, HNC, Informatica, JD Edwards, Quest, and Siebel. Mark received his MBA from Harvard Business School and BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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