Simon Greenman, Managing Director – Online, European Directories

Simon joined European Directories as Managing Director – Online in 2007.  His focus is on driving online revenue and usage growth across the eight operation countries, including the rollout of flagship IYP sites, video products, the social local site Tupalo.com, and the recent launch of the Skype partnership.

Simon is something of an industry veteran with nearly fifteen years of global experience in the local search and yellow pages industries. He was a co-founder of the MapQuest.com service, one of the most widely used and licensed local search services in the US. He was most recently based in the US as Head of Digital for R.H. Donnelley, a
leading Yellow Pages publisher.  He joined them with the acquisition of Dex Media, a US$1.6B publisher, where he had held the same position and was part of the team that completed a successful IPO in 2004. He was responsible for leading the group’s overall digital initiatives, including driving revenue growth with the introduction of new IYP and
SEM advertising products, growing DexOnline.com to the number one in-region consumer local search site, and establishing well recognized partnerships with Google and Yahoo!.

Mr Greenman holds a MBA from Harvard and a BA in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, England.  He has also held increasingly senior technology and management positions with Accenture and R.R. Donnelley.

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Jim Brown, CTO CloudMade

Jim Brown is CTO at CloudMade (www.cloudmade.com) where he is responsible for all development, technology and infrastructure. He came to CloudMade after serving as CIO at Sonopia, a US based MVNO.

Before Sonopia, Jim was CTO at WinWin Technologies, building a CRM and advertising ASP around a real-time profiling engine that hosted over 300 million data points across 35 million consumers and supported over 1 million ad-serving transactions per day.

Prior to WinWin, Jim served as COO of Fairgain, which was merged with Jatak.  Jim held the role of VP Business Management at Symbian during the company’s fastest growth period. He came to Symbian from Oracle, where he was managing principal and practice director for technical architecture.

Jim began his technical career in the early 1980s at Kmart where he deployed the first distributed Unix systems into over 2,200 store locations and was responsible for international systems, R&D and strategic planning at various times. He also spent several years at GM/EDS implementing plant floor automation systems.

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