Management Team

John Mracek, Chief Executive Officer

Most recently, John was Vice President and General Manager of Distributed Commerce at Shopping.com where he ran the company's advertising network and was responsible for merchant sales and service, product management, business development as well as partner account management. Prior to Shopping.com, John was Vice President of Advertising Products at Yahoo where he managed both graphical and display ad products and oversaw the introduction of Yahoo's SmartAds. Previous roles included: President of AdKnowledge, a pioneer in the early days of online advertising management and measurement, as well as CEO of Covia, an Enterprise Software company. John earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Behnam Rezaei, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Behnam A. Rezaei leads NetSeer's team in the design and implementation of its technological innovations. The primary inventor of the company's ten patent applications to date, Behnam has a broad range of expertise including complex systems, random networks, information dynamics, and distributed and P2P networking and information processing, and is widely published in scientific and technical publications. Prior to founding NetSeer, Behnam was a lead researcher on several projects in spam filtering, identification of the structure and dynamics in large-scale biological networks, and the development of P2P network clients. He was also a lead developer of UCLA's BruNet P2P network client at the university's complex systems laboratory. Behnam received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Vwani Roychowdhury, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

Dr. Vwani Roychowdhury, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, established the theoretical foundation of NetSeer's groundbreaking technology. An internationally recognized researcher in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering and computer science, Professor Roychowdhury is known for innovative problem solving in the fields of learning theory and systems, statistical modeling and processing of large-scale and high dimensional datasets, peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and complex systems, distributed and parallel processing, bioinformatics, quantum computing and nanoelectronics. He has consulted with major corporations including Intel, HP, AT&T, IBM and Warner Bros., has co-authored three books on artificial intelligence and neural networks, has written over 150 technical and scientific publications, holds two U.S. patents, and was recently featured by The New Scientist, Nature, The Guardian, and the BBC for his breakthroughs in social networks and dynamics, spam filtering and P2P networking. Dr. Roychowdhury received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Peter Horn, Chief Revenue Officer

Peter, a 15 year veteran in digital media, most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of HealthCentral. For three years he led their Sales, Advertising Operations and B2B Marketing groups, and guided the company’s consistent year-over-year revenue growth strategy and audience expansion initiatives. Prior to HealthCentral Peter worked at Microsoft’s MSN Network, where he spent seven years and served as one of the top performingregional sales leads. During his tenure his teams achieved record year-over-year revenue growth. Previously, Peter co-founded and served as Executive Vice President of HoopsTV, a multimedia basketball entertainment company, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing the national off and online sales team. Before HoopsTV, Peter worked at CBS Sportsline and The Weather Channel, developing and managing award-winning online salesprograms. During his early career Peter worked at JP Morgan, where he served as a salesperson in the fixed income unit. A graduate of Dickinson College, Peter was born and raised in New York City and resides in Riverdale, NY with his wife and two young daughters.

Sanjiv Ghate, VP Product

Sanjiv brings over 18 years of experience in online advertising and information technology. As the Senior Director and Head of Display Monetization & Platforms for Yahoo’s Emerging Markets, Sanjiv drove all pan-regional monetization initiatives for the region. Prior to this role, Sanjiv served as Director of Product Management for Yahoo!’s global ad management platform where he led the delivery of several innovative platform products in the areas of targeting, reporting, revenue delivery, and yield management. In addition, he served as the product lead on the initiatives to extend Yahoo!’s ad platform to affiliate partners including eBay and the Newspaper Consortium. Most recently Sanjiv headed product management efforts at YuMe, a video advertising technology company, to create the next generation video ad management platform for advertisers and agencies. Sanjiv holds a BS Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India, an MS Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Nima Khajehnouri, Vice President of Product Development

Nima Khajehnouri received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2001, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003 and 2006 respectively. His research focus was on signal processing, optimization and estimation techniques for communication systems, including OFDM MIMO networks, multi-user MIMO networks, cellular localization, relay networks and signal processing for sensor networks. Nima has published over 20 articles in different journals and conferences and has been serving as the reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences.