Steve joined Vringo as Vice President of Business Development in June
2006. Steve is an experienced and accomplished business development
professional in both the mobile and internet space. He most recently
served as Vice President of Business Development at Axis Mobile in Tel
Aviv, a leading provider of mass market mobile e-mail solutions.
Prior to this he was Vice President of Business Development at
Shopping.com where he worked for six year...
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Steve joined Vringo as Vice President of Business Development in June
2006. Steve is an experienced and accomplished business development
professional in both the mobile and internet space. He most recently
served as Vice President of Business Development at Axis Mobile in Tel
Aviv, a leading provider of mass market mobile e-mail solutions.
Prior to this he was Vice President of Business Development at
Shopping.com where he worked for six years first in the United States
and then in Europe. Steve played a key role in helping Shopping.com
grow from a small company with almost no revenues to a public company
with over $100mm in revenues that was ultimately acquired by eBay
(Public, NASDAQ:EBAY) for $620 million. In Europe, Steve was
responsible for the majority of the company’s revenue across European
Territories. His team’s responsibilities included search engine
marketing, sourcing and negotiating new partnerships to drive traffic,
revenue and net income, negotiating and managing European sponsored
links relationship with Google, working with engineering on
implementation of new deals, managing existing relationships and
defining future product needs.
Steve began his career as a management consultant at Booz Allen &
Hamilton in New York where he spent two years as an Associate in the
Financial and Health Services Group.
Steve graduated Harvard Law School in 1998, Magna Cum Laude and also
holds a B.A in Economics, Magna Cum Laude from Yeshiva University, New
York.
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