Seth Besmertnik, CEO & Co-Founder

Seth Besmertnik guides corporate strategy and develops strategic partnerships for Conductor, and his vision and thought leadership have established the company as a recognized authority in natural search. Since co-founding the company in 2005, Besmertnik has navigated the company through multiple finance rounds and extraordinary growth. Today the company boasts a customer list of more than one hundred Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 companies and hundreds of the world’s most recognized publishers. In addition, Conductor provides natural search solutions for more than half the top search engine marketing and optimization agencies in the United States.

Besmertnik frequently speaks at industry events as an expert in search marketing and is a frequent guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at various universities. In 2009, Besmertnik was selected as a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Besmertnik holds B.S. in Entrepreneurial Management from Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business.

Jason Bigler, VP, Product Management

Jason Bigler is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Conductor product suite. An industry veteran, Jason brings over 15 years of product management experience in developing consumer and enterprise software solutions.

Prior to joining Conductor, Jason was Vice President of Product Management at DoubleClick, where he was responsible for the global product strategy of DoubleClick's digital advertising product suite. During his tenure he oversaw over $40 million of revenue growth and significant market share gains. In 2006 his innovative work was recognized by the industry with an ASPY award for best technology solution. Previously Jason held several product management positions within emerging firms in the messaging and financial services industries.

Jason earned his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a BA from West Virginia University.

Ho Chin, CFO

Ho Chin joined Conductor in May 2007 as the CFO. Chin is responsible for overseeing the company's finance & administration and plays an important role in the company's operations and business strategy. Prior to joining Conductor, Chin was the VP of Finance at Azoogle.com, Inc. overseeing all aspects of the company's financials, including M&A. Before Azoogle, Chin was with DoubleClick where he held a variety of management positions including Director of Corporate Development, managing acquisitions & divestitures and integration of acquisitions. Previously, he was with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and AlliedSignal.

Chin received a B.S. in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeremy Duboys, President & Co-Founder

Bringing product development and technology vision expertise, Jeremy Duboys is primarily responsible for product and market development. A series of entrepreneurial endeavors began in 2002 with the creation of online printing company Professional Taste Printing. Duboys quickly saw how to vertically integrate Professional Taste through strategic use of linking, and soon saw that the industry needed to be modernized and improved. This led to the creation, with Besmertnik, of Conductor.

Duboys earned a BA from Penn State University and is an active member of the search engine community.

Keith Nealon, VP, Worldwide Sales

Keith Nealon joins Conductor with over 15 years of sales and executive experience and is responsible for our global sales and alliances operations. Most recently Nealon was SVP Worldwide sales at Eloqua, a marketing automation platform company, where in under 4 years he helped scale the company from a small startup to what became known as "the 800lb gorilla in the space", with global operations, an average compound growth of 80% year over year, and over 20,000 users in 30 countries.

Prior to Eloqua, Nealon held various sales leadership positions at Navisite,Inc. where he helped scale the company from $30 million to $125 million in revenues in just 3 years. Prior to Navisite, Nealon was CEO and co-founder of Nebula Technologies, an award winning international systems integration and consulting firm. The company enjoyed an average of 50 percent year over year growth and was ultimately sold in 2002.

Nealon received a BS in Math & Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin.

John Pavley, CTO

John Pavley leads the technology team at Conductor. Pavley has extensive experience in Internet Advertising and Online Marketing as CTO of ContextWeb (ADSDAQ Ad Exchange), VP of Business Systems Engineering for Yahoo! Search Marketing, and VP of Ad Management Engineering for DoubleClick (DART). At ContextWeb, Yahoo! and DoubleClick, Pavley was responsible for building and maintaining ad serving systems that scaled to billions of transaction per day.

Prior to 2000, Pavley lived and worked in the Silicon Valley working for several technology-based startups as well as Apple Computer. At Apple Computer's software division, Pavley led the design and development of the award winning ClarisWorks for Kids. Pavley's research in the areas of user interface design and reusable software components resulted in the awarding of eight utility patents.

Pavley earned a BA degree from Rutgers University.