Team - Position2

Here are the profiles of our core team of professionals. Each of our core team of professionals come with extensive management experience in marketing, advertising, sales, technology and the web.

	Rajiv Parikh - CEO Rajiv is CEO of Position2, a leading search engine marketing firm, with over 20 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience. He is Co-Founder and Board Member of Apieron Inc., a VC-backed company. He grew the AltaVista Business Solutions Group to $40 million in revenues. Prior experience includes leading Marketing and Business Development groups at Sun Microsystems, NCR, and AT&T. Rajiv has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from UNH. Rajiv is a frequent speaker in industry forums on search and social media marketing.
	Peter Dayton - Chief Financial Officer Peter joined Position2 as Chief Financial Officer in October 2007 and has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience. In his earlier assignment Peter headed Business Development and Financial Operations for Yahoo! Small Business, a $180M group. Prior to Yahoo!, he was co-founder and VP of Marketing at Aeroprise, a wireless middleware provider. Peter began his career as a sales representative with IBM in Boston where he was named to the Golden Circle, a prestigious award for the top 5% of IBM sales people worldwide. Peter received a Master in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
	Soumya Ravi - Director of Client Management With over a decade in advertising and marketing experience, Soumya leads Client Management at Position2. She has worked with ad agencies such as J. Walter Thompson and Contract Advertising in India. Her portfolio includes media plans for print, TV, radio, Outdoor, and cell phone media for clients such as 4Info.net, PartySync.com, Fox News, iVillage, CMP Media, Infominder, Philips Lighting, and Clorets, among others. Soumya has an MBA from Santa Clara University in California and is a qualified Google AdWords Professional.
	Bill Ross - Director of Sales and Marketing Bill is a Silicon Valley veteran with over twenty years of experience penetrating and developing new markets for software and professional services companies, in a myriad of markets and economic conditions. He has a demonstrated ability to combine sales and marketing issues to transform complex technology products and services into compelling and easily understood high value business propositions. Bill began his career in technology as an Account Manager with NCR and has been early-on with several VC-funded startups that have either gone public or been acquired. Bill received his B.S. in Marketing from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
	Rajesh Sule - Director of Worldwide Business Development With over twenty years worldwide advertising industry experience as Media Business Head & Media Strategist, Rajesh has managed clients like Pepsico, Henkel, Cadbury, Philips, Bayer, Daimler Chrysler, Bajaj Auto Ltd., Warner Lambert, Merrill Lynch, etc. Prior to joining Position2, Rajesh was Director of Content & Convergence at Insight (Lintas Media Group). His portfolio of responsibilities included Digital Initiatives and identifying New Revenue Streams for the group. He started his career at Lintas (now Lowe) and climbed the ladder at organizations like Contract Advertising (JWT Network), FCB, Carat, OMD and Insight. Rajesh is a graduate in Statistics and post graduate in Marketing Management from University of Mumbai. He has a Silver Abby for Media Innovation to his credit at the Mumbai Ad Club.
	Vinod Nambiar - Director of Global Delivery With over 16 years of advertising, marketing and entrepreneurial experience, Vinod manages delivery operations at Position2, based in Bangalore. Vinod co-founded Webshastra, India’s first ad-network in 1999. Webshastra was a pioneer in the online advertising space in India, offering world class Internet advertising solutions to top agencies and clients in India. Prior to this, he was head of Client Services and Online Advertising at DBS Internet, a leading provider of web solutions in India. Vinod has a post-graduate diploma in Marketing Management from Institute of Management Development and Research at Pune, India and a Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering.
	Vyom Khandelia - Director of IT Development Vyom has over 11 years of experience in Software Engineering, Project Management and Client Support functions. Vyom has a variety of experience in US and India companies, startups as well as large firms and assignments in US, South East Asia and India. His last position was at Afila Tech as a Program Manager, where he also headed the Test Automation and Information Systems team. Vyom also worked in various capacities including Development Lead, Integration Manager, Field Application Engineer and Program Manager. Vyom is passionate about technology and enjoys the challenges of aligning it to business needs. He has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Manipal Institute of Technology and a Special Management Program certificate from IIM - Calcutta.