ShareThis CEO and leadership

Dana Hayes is a CEO at ShareThis and Advisory Board Member at Screen6 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has experience at TRIBUNE MEDIA CO and has worked as Chief Revenue Officer at Travora Media (aka. Travel Ad Network), SVP Sales and Marketing at Tribune Publications, and President at ShareThis. Dana attended DEPAUW UNIVERSITY and University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Chad Burns is a Chief Financial Officer at ShareThis Inc and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Senior Vice President, Technology M&A at Houlihan Lokey; Manager, Revenue Recognition Controller and Corporate Development at NBC News; and Chief Financial Officer at Forensic Logic. Chad works or has worked as Finance at Financial Consultant. He attended Columbia Business School between 2006 and 2008 and Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley.

I am an experienced VP of engineering, and have built and led a few talented engineering teams in Silicon Valley. My teams have developed innovative and scalable solutions in the areas of

--- big data analytics, infrastructure and application

--- machine learning of big data, platform and applications

--- search engine, semantic search for vertical markets

--- ontology based semantic analysis

--- natural language processing and text mining

--- SEM and SEO

--- rule engine

I am a passionate tech leader with expert level knowledge of open-source packages,

--- Hadoop, Spark, Impala, Greenplum for big data infrastructure

--- Storm, Kafka for online streaming analytics

--- Cassandra, MongoDB for distributed key-value store

--- Solr and Lucene for search engine

--- CRAN R and scikit-learn for machine learning

--- Drools for rule engine

--- RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ for messaging

I am result-oriented with emphasis on delivering quality products on time,

--- work with executive team to agree on vision, goals, and plan

--- work with product/marketing teams to agree on requirements

--- inspire team with clear company vision and product direction

--- encourage adoption of innovation/effective technologies

--- take care of engineers, pay attention to their career development

I am also experienced in leading global engineering teams, understanding different cultures.

Dana Hayes is a CEO at ShareThis and Advisory Board Member at Screen6 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has experience at TRIBUNE MEDIA CO and has worked as Chief Revenue Officer at Travora Media (aka. Travel Ad Network), SVP Sales and Marketing at Tribune Publications, and President at ShareThis. Dana attended DEPAUW UNIVERSITY and University of Chicago Booth School of Business.