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RUDY GADRE JOINS EVRI AS VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Former Facebook General Counsel Joins Evri Following the Company’s Open Beta
Seattle, WA-October 1, 2008 Evri (www.evri.com), a technology company focused on helping people discover and engage with Web content, today announced that Rudy Gadre joined the company as vice president of business operations. Gadre joins Evri following two years as Facebook’s General Counsel. In this newly created position at Evri, Gadre will oversee legal and intellectual property, human resources, and financial planning. In addition, Rudy will be responsible for building audience, driving customer acquisition and other Evri.com marketing activities. Evri CEO Neil Roseman made the announcement.
“Rudy brings a great deal of business insight and legal expertise from his experience at Facebook and Amazon,” said Neil Roseman. “I’m extremely pleased to have Rudy join the Evri team; he will be a real asset to the team as we endeavor to change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.”
“Neil has assembled a remarkable group of talented people at Evri and I’m very excited to join the team,” said Rudy Gadre. “I believe that Evri has identified a huge opportunity to help people browse content on the Web, and I’m looking forward to playing a role in bringing Evri’s technology to the world.”
Prior to Facebook, Rudy held positions in technology and IP law at Beacon Law Advisors, Amazon.com and Perkins Coie, LLP. Rudy earned a J.D. from the University Of Washington School Of Law and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College.
Earlier this week, Evri opened its beta to the public at www.evri.com, including the Evri content recommendation widget, Profile pages, and the Evri Garden, a technology playground where people can directly interact with the same back end system that Evri scientists and engineers use.
About Evri
Evri (www.evri.com) is a technology company developing products that change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web. Led by CEO Neil Roseman, Evri is a team of engineers with broad expertise in natural language processing and machine learning, who have delivered many successful Web products for great companies, including: Amazon.com; DoubleClick; Microsoft; Real Networks; Sony, Yahoo and more. Neil joined Evri after more than 10 years at Amazon.com, most recently as Vice President of Software. Evri is based in Seattle, WA and is funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital. Evri is a trademark of Evri.com.
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