Background
Mr. Eran Shir co-founded Dapper, Inc. in 2007 and has been its Chief Technology Officer since February 2010. He is running the Creative Innovation Center at Yahoo!, where he is responsible for Yahoo!’s ad creative technologies strategy and portfolio, as well as the development of its next generation ad creative platforms. He joined Yahoo! in Oct. 2010 when Yahoo! acquired Dapper. He is an Internet entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor. Mr. Shir served as an Advisor at Innovation Endeavors. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Dapper, Inc. until February 2010. Previously, he founded and steered a large-scale, internationally acclaimed Internet research project called DIMES. He also co-founded Cogniview and served as its Chief Technology Officer. He holds an MA and a BA in theoretical Physics from the Technion.