Eran Shir

Co Founder & CEO

2015 - Current

Board member

1994

The Israel Center of Excellence through Education is a renowned national non-profit organization in Israel which focuses on finding and cultivating young excellent students to fulfill their full potential. I had the privilege to serve as a director on the board from 1994 until 2008, and I continue to be a patron of this great institution.

Entrepreneur in Residence

2013 - 2014

Ushering the future.

Senior Director & Head, Creative Innovation Center

2010 - 2013

After joining Yahoo! in late 2010, I was commissioned with the task of building a new engineering team inside Yahoo! called the Creative Innovation Center (CIC). The CIC is a global team based in part on Dapper's engineering team, that works on the technologies for the next generation of creatives across mobile, video, dynamic and rich media ads.

Cofounder and CEO

2006 - 2010

Together with Jon Aizen, I confounded Dapper, a revolutionary web service in the fields of semantic web and digital marketing. Dapper was acquired by Yahoo! on Oct. 2010

Doctoral candidate and DIMES project manager

2003 - 2006

In late 2003, I founded, together with Dr. Yuval Shavitt, the DIMES Internet research project, a volunteer computing project aiming to measure the structure of the Internet. The project has become a large success with thousands of users and more than five billion measurements to date

CTO & Founder

2001 - 2003

I was a co-founder and the main technological figure for the initial phase of this Israeli-based StartUp. Went back to the academic world in Oct. 2003 to found the DIMES project