RankAbove's Management Team
Mayer Reich – Chief Executive Officer / Founder
Mayer is a seasoned serial Internet entrepreneur with an excellent track record, having led several successful consumer internet ventures, building the companies from the ground-up.
Mayer commands an exceptional grasp of Internet industry knowledge and throughout his career has garnered the capacity to create, focus and drive ongoing business development activities. Mayer excels at negotiating partnerships; closing deals (many with Fortune 500 companies) and guiding and implementing business strategy.
Prior to co-founding RankAbove in 2007, Mayer was CEO of ITS, a leading search marketing firm with offices in NY and Israel. Prior to ITS, Mayer led LendingExpert.com in the role of Sales Manager, providing services to such companies as IndyMac Bank, WAMU, Chase and other leading lending institutions.
Mayer is a regular guest speaker at Universities and not-for-profit organizations on the subjects of using the Internet to excel at business and entrepreneurship, and creating, maintaining and spreading a web presence. Mayer was invited to sit on the Advisory Board of Young Entrepreneurs’ Israel and is a Graduate of the Merage Fellowship.
Mayer was born and raised in New York and now lives in a suburb of Jerusalem with his wife and four children.
Eli Feldblum – Chief Technology Officer / Founder
Eli is a recognized search engine optimization expert, having spoken at many search related events and published many articles on the subject. Eli is the visionary behind RankAbove’s Drive™ SEO technology and continues to innovate in the search and internet marketing fields. He holds a visionary leadership role in the SEO market and continues to develop exciting new features for Drive™.
Eli was formerly Director of Marketing for Didit.com. Eli was responsible for Didit.com's personal SEO and PPC efforts, and worked on search marketing campaigns for a number of other A-list companies, including Match.com, Style.com, Concierge.com, NewYorker.com, American Express, AT&T Mobile, Cingular, John Kerry for President 2004, Glamour.com, AD.com and more. Immediately before founding RankAbove, Eli was VP Marketing for Sunny Group, responsible for all North American online and offline marketing efforts.
Eli was recently a guest lecturer at the Bar Ilan MBA program.
Omer Tamuz - VP Research and Development
Omer joined RankAbove in June 2008 as VP of Research & Development and was handed the task of building the algorithms behind RankAbove's Drive™ SEO technology. Prior to RankAbove, Omer held the position of Algorithm Developer at Correlix, where he worked on a large variety of algorithms, building the algorithmic infrastructure in the areas of data analysis, model fitting, pattern recognition and more. Prior to Correlix, Omer worked at Schema, where he, as part of a research team, helped with the development and implementation of models of cellular network behavior, used to optimize network performance using genetic algorithms.
In 2006, Omer was awarded a BSc in Computer Science and Physics Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University. During his time there he performed research in Astronomy and discovered two planets outside the solar system. In addition Omer researched computational biology. Omer has been Visiting Scientist in Germany and Switzerland, and has published numerous papers.
Michael Barnett – VP Marketing
As RankAbove's Vice President of Marketing, Michael is responsible for all corporate marketing activities for the company and leading all client relationship management. Prior to joining RankAbove in September 2007, Michael held leadership positions in marketing and business development at a number of divisions at IDT Corporation - (NYSE: IDT). At IDT Global, Michael was responsible for all marketing efforts for IDT’s outsourcing branch; his work there was instrumental in closing deals with Fortune 100 companies. At IDT Capital, Michael consulted for a variety of start-up companies who required the development of marketing strategies and early implementation of GTM principles to be put in place. These companies ranged from hi-tech and energy-related companies to retail outlet stores; Michael created a variety of successful marketing strategies to suit each companies needs, taking into account the varying market conditions at that time. At IDT Energy, Michael led the marketing effort to increase meters held by the Company by over 200%.
Prior to working for IDT, Michael was Director of Marketing at Ericom Software, Ltd (TASE: ERCM), a leader in Terminal Emulation applications, where he was involved in both product management and corporate marketing.