Seevast Management Team

Kent Keating Chairman of the Board

Kent Keating has served as Chairman of the Board since Seevast's inception in 2006. Keating was originally the founder of Kanoodle, where he envisioned the opportunity for a bid-for-location search engine as a result of his experience in marketing Life Images, a previous business venture.

Prior to founding Kanoodle, Keating founded a franchise oriented business that leveraged two of Keating's U.S. patents on a photo sculpting process. This oriented business placed 1,200 people in 38 countries into the Life Images business.

Keating earned a BA in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Jaan Janes CEO of Seevast

Jaan Janes is the CEO of Seevast. Janes has more than two decades of business strategy and advertising experience. He joined Seevast from AOL where he was responsible for developing and selling strategic marketing programs for top advertisers, including Verizon Wireless and Coca-Cola Company. Previously, Janes worked on the sales development team at AOL, creating the business strategy for advertising sales in programming areas inclusing news, sports, and weather, with partners such as CNN.com and TIME.com.

Janes began his online career in 1995 with the National Football League, where he launched the first major professional sports site, NFL.com, as well as executed some of the first online sports marketing programs. Janes has also held sales management positions at Showtime Networks and Sportsvision, Inc., a sports media technology company that invented the Emmy Award winning virtual first down line for football broadcasts.

Janes is a graduate of Cornell University.

Dave Casion President and Chief Technology Officer

Dave Casion brings years of practical experience in developing performance driven, low cost, and scalable infrastructures based on open source technologies. Prior to becoming Chief Technology Officer of Seevast, Casion was CTO of Kanoodle from 2002-2006 and has also held leadership positions at IBM, Pinnacle Software and CFOKnows. Casion has founded several successful internet technology businesses and served as the technical operations manager for a popular computer manufacturer.

Casion holds a BS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

John Edholm Vice President of Affiliate Operations

John Edholm joined the company in 2003 where he started his career managing Client Services, handling all client campaign strategy and optimization, and most recently moved into the role of Vice President, Affiliate Operations. In this role, he analyzes all business performance, coordinates business development efforts, control staffing, and manages relationships with Pulse 360's premium publisher network. Prior to this, Edholm built a 9-year track record of effective management and training for a variety of large companies including Hewlett Packard/Compaq Corp.

Edholm is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University and earned his MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Ryan Landry Vice President, Finance

Ryan Landry is Vice President of Finance. Landry joined the company in 2003 where he started his career in Client Services. Shortly thereafter he moved to the finance department where he has handled many roles including Financial Analyst, Director of Finance and currently Vice President. In this role, he is responsible for financial reporting, forecasting and cash management.

Landry is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Sean Insalaco Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Sean joined Pulse 360 in May of 2011 after a 17 year career at Moog Inc. He is responsible for Pulse's marketing strategy, marketing programs, sales organization and sales strategy. Insalaco has nearly two decades of marketing experience, formally leading marketing for two of Moog's business units, Industrial and Medical Devices. Sean has significant experience in strategic planning, marketing strategy, marketing planning and managing the entire marketing mix.

Insalaco is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

William Cronberger Senior Vice President, Information Security Officer

William has 20 years of diverse corporate management experience in developing and launching profitable new businesses, restructuring and growing existing businesses, as well as the day-to-day operations of a 24 x 7 technology company with the last 12 years in Internet advertising. William is responsible for all contract, legal, merchant credit card processing and information security. William led the original design and development of the Kanoodle IT infrastructure and the IT, sales and agency sales teams. Previously, William was responsible for international sales of small businesses and earlier the design and engineering of large voice and data networks.

William earned a BS in Business Administration at SUNY ECC.

Michael Kelly Vice President, Sales

Michael Kelly joined the company in 2003 as a Sales Account Executive, working on generating new clients and managing daliy ad campaigns including top advertiser accounts such as Dell, Toyota, Progressive Insurance and Lending Tree. Mike was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales, and now manages the day to day business strategy of the sales team including new client development, campaign optimization and new product deployment. Kelly has over 16 years in professional sales experience working in various industries including interactive, healthcare and industrial sales.

Kelly earned a BS in Business Administration from Empire State College.

Dana Grady Controller

Dana Grady joined the company in 2006 after a six year career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Buffalo, NY and Washington D.C. Dana is responsible for all the day to day accounting functions and oversees the accounts receivable and accounts payable management. Dana is also responsible for the monthly closes and coordination of the year-end financial statement audit and tax return preparation.

Dana is a graduate and holds an MBA from St. Bonaventure University and is also a CPA in the states of New York, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.