Executive Team
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Vinny LinghamFounder, Vice Chairman
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| Vinny is a seasoned, globally acclaimed entrepreneur who has founded a number of businesses, including the award-winning search engine marketing company, Clicks2Customers. He was recently chosen as a Young Global Leader Honoree 2009 by the World Economic Forum. He has been recognized as a high-impact entrepreneur by Endeavor Global and awarded the 2006 Top Young IT Entrepreneur. He serves on numerous international advisory boards for search engine and affiliate marketing, including Commission Junction and Yahoo!, speaks at conferences around the world and is frequently cited on Web 2.0 trends. He studied Information Systems at the University of Cape Town and graduated with an honors degree in Electronic Commerce from the University of South Africa. | |
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Trevor Harries-JonesPresident & Chief Operating Officer
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| Trevor brings a world of financial and management experience from two continents. Before Yola, he was Senior Vice President of Finance at OpenTV (OPTV), where he was an integral member of the executive team and oversaw the controllership, treasury, facilities, tax and investor relation functions. Before that, Trevor spent more than six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose and Cape Town. There, he specialized in internet and software practice and provided management consulting and audit services to a range of clients, including Excite@Home, AOL and M-Web. Trevor graduated with a Bachelors degree in Commerce from the University of Cape Town, and is both a CPA and a Chartered Accountant (SA). | |
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Brent ViljoenFounder, Chief Technology Officer
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| Brent brings more than a decade of software engineering management experience to Yola. As Chief Technology Officer, he designed and coordinated the implementation of the Yola application architecture and now oversees all technical design and development. Before he co-founded Yola, he was a Technical Product Manager at Clicks2Customers, an award-winning Search Engine Marketing company, where he met Vinny Lingham. Brent also managed the development of Portico, a rapid rich-internet-application development platform that was successfully deployed in the health care, finance and retail sectors across four continents. | |
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David SaxtonVice President, Business Development
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| Dave is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Yola where he is responsible for revenue, brand management, channel partnerships, direct marketing, and communications. Prior to joining Yola in 2008, Dave led business development for the Snapfish division of Hewlett-Packard for seven years. Dave previously held business development and sales roles at Ebates.com and Real Media. Dave lives in Marin County, California, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and holds advisory positions with Autonomy Entertainment and Kidlandia. | |
Monique Viljoen-PlattsVice President, Customer Service
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| Since joining Yola in 2008 Monique has helped scale the Yola support infrastructure from being able to support a few thousand registered users to supporting several million. Prior to joining Yola, Monique divided her time between tertiary education and church administration. The move to Yola represented a significant career change, but Monique quickly realized that many of the principles of education and human behavior also apply to the world of software support! Yola's brand of customer support has gained widespread recognition for a high standard of excellence, winning the R.E.C.S.S awards in 2009 and 2010. | |
