Kevin is an Internet veteran with over ten years of e-commerce experience and a passion for responsible digital marketing. Prior to joining Ebates, Kevin served as president and general manager of Acxiom Digital (formerly Digital Impact, Inc.). Acxiom Digital is one of the world's largest and most experienced email marketing service providers, search engine marketing pioneer, leader in dynamic website personalization, and a top twenty-five interactive agency.
Before joining Acxiom Digital/Digital Impact, Kevin was the Senior Vice President of client services at Netcentives and general manager of the company's email marketing services division, formerly Post Communications. Prior to his tenure at Netcentives, Kevin co-founded and served as CEO of Passporta.com, an e-commerce business providing hard-to-find local specialties straight from the world's best sources.
Before launching his own 'dot-com', Kevin worked six years with the Boston Consulting Group, where he provided strategic and operating expertise to leading multinational companies during assignments in North America, China, Japan, Thailand, and Europe. Kevin started his professional career as an investment banker and entrepreneur, helping launch The GulfStar Group, a boutique investment bank headquartered in Texas.
Kevin received an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Robert SmahlChief Marketing Officer
Rob has enjoyed a 20+ year career as a marketing executive focusing on customer acquisition and retention. Before joining Ebates to head up the company's marketing teams, Rob was Vice President of Marketing & Communication at PriceGrabber.com for a four year period, through its acquisition by Experian in the winter of 2006. Prior to that, Rob enjoyed a 16-year stint at Ziff-Davis where he had a number of management roles in the company's publishing, trade show and online units, ending as an Executive Officer of ZDnet through its IPO and eventual sale to CNET in 2001. He is a graduate of the University at Albany.
Catherine ChangVice President of Finance
Catherine is the Vice President of Finance of Ebates, where she leads overall administrative and financial management, treasury, accounting, investor relations, real estate and human resource operations. She is a Certified Chartered Accountant with over ten years of experience in high-growth organizations, with a proven record of developing and implementing financial and operational controls that improve financial results. Most recently, Catherine served as Corporate Controller for Facebook, the 6th most trafficked site in the United States with more than 66 million active users. There, she built and guided the finance department through its first full year of rapid growth as well as ensuring compliance while its operations expanded to support the steadily growing company. Catherine received a BS degree in Business Accounting & Finance and in Business Administration, with concentration in Accounting and a minor in Economics, from the University Science Malaysia in Penang.
Ray ReynoldsDirector of Operations
Ray is currently the Director of Operations, and manages the team responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and support of the systems architecture running the Ebates e-commerce platform, as well as the network and systems for the company. He has enjoyed a 25+ year career in computer engineering, specializing in large systems network management. Ray joined Ebates in 1999, during its early days. Prior to joining Ebates, he managed the IT infrastructure at software companies such as Valisys (a joint venture of FMC and IBM), and Tecnomatix (now a division of UGS). He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BS in Computer Engineering and Mathematics.
Kevin CubbaV.P. of Engineering
Kevin joined Ebates in 2007 and leads the engineering team responsible for the technical development and support of the Ebates website and associative applications. In his role, he is responsible for the company's overall technology direction, systems engineering, software development, and third party integration. Before joining Ebates, Kevin was the Director of Engineering at BNI, a premier online real estate information portal whose largest white label partner is AOL Real Estate. In that role, he worked closely with the Online Marketing team to streamline releases, enhance real-time marketing reporting and analytics, and introduce a flexible, configurable landing system to increase the speed and variety of page testing. Prior to BNI, Kevin was the Director of Product Engineering at QAD Inc., a leader in ERP and lean manufacturing solutions where he managed a worldwide team of engineers responsible for the application infrastructure, database development, design and development tools, deployment and migration tools as well as third party integration. Kevin brings over twenty years of experience designing, building and supporting large, mission critical systems to the management team. Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.
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