Friday 12th Jun 2009
Press Release
Jigsaw appoints Virendra Vase as Vice President of Engineering
Jigsaw, the world’s largest online business directory, today announced that Virendra Vase has joined the Jigsaw executive management team as Vice President of Engineering.
Vase joins Jigsaw from Yahoo where he was VP of Engineering in the Search & Advertising technology group responsible for Small Medium Business, CRM, APT adoption, Business Intelligence Platform for the Advertising Network among other initiatives. Vase will assume responsibility for all engineering and network operations for Jigsaw.
“Virendra’s impressive industry experience, proven leadership, and track record with rapid-growth companies – as well as some of the top brands in the world – make him an excellent fit for our team,” said Jim Fowler, CEO of Jigsaw. “We are delighted that Jigsaw’s continued success has enabled us to expand our executive management team, and we look forward to leveraging his unique insight and expertise as Jigsaw continues its rapid growth trajectory.”
“I am extremely excited to be a part of the Jigsaw team,” said Virendra. “I look forward to helping further Jigsaw’s impressive growth and to continue to build a world class technology organization to provide the platform, tools & services with the highest reliability and functionality to the community as well as our partners and customers.”
Vase has extensive experience with large scalable systems and delivering high performance data platforms & analytics. In addition, he brings experience in enterprise integration working with large clients like Citibank and Discover which will be significant to Jigsaw’s continued partner growth and success.
Prior to Yahoo!, Vase served as COO at MetaReward/Experian, a performance based ad network, which grew from 10M to 80M annually during his tenure. Vase has held executive positions at companies, including Responsys and Engage and served as an engineer at Hal Computer Systems, and Unisys.
