Executive Team

Mr. McGovern is CEO of MediaPlatform®. He was most recently CEO of itzbig, an interactive job board that used advanced semantic matching technology. Previously, he spent six years as CEO of Marketwire, during which time the newswire service grew fourfold, ultimately being sold to an international competitor seeking to enter the U.S. market. Earlier in his career, he held senior executive positions at Business.com and at Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch. Mr. McGovern began his career at IBM, where he held roles in sales and product marketing. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from Stanford University and an MBA from INSEAD (L’Institute Européen d’Administraton des Affaires) in Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. Pulier is a founder and president of MediaPlatform® and has spent the last ten years developing rich media webcasting software products. After studying physics at Harvard, Mr. Pulier worked in the Harvard Robotics Laboratory and the New York University Robotics Laboratory. He then served as the CTO of Radiant Enterprises, developing network control systems. He subsequently joined Boston University’s Cognitive and Neural Systems department, where he studied brain sciences with an emphasis on computational and mathematical brain modeling. He also was the General Manager for new products at Digital Evolution. For the past 8 years, Mr. Pulier has been managing software teams and developing new technologies in the streaming media industry leveraging his knowledge of neuroscience and brain processing. Greg holds a B.S. in Physics from Harvard University.

Denis is the CTO of MediaPlatform®. He has more than fifteen years of experience successfully leading the development of online applications. Prior to joining MediaPlatform, he was the CTO at Marketwire, the founder of Placely, a travel social media company, and Individual Network, an online media distribution company. In addition, he was formerly a technology consultant at X PRIZE Foundation, Software Architect at Ticketmaster, Project Lead at CitySearch, QA Team Lead for NetDynamics, Architecture Designer and Development Lead while at Andersen Consulting, and performed QA for Broderbund Software’s Banner Blue Division and Software Ventures Corporation. In 1997, he was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for his work in pioneering extranet applications for Health Alliance Plan. In addition to being Patent Bar Certified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he currently holds numerous patents of his own. He received his B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley with a minor in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business.

Ms. Ysette Witteveen is Vice President and General Manager of Client Services of MediaPlatform®, responsible for client success and support. Ms. Witteveen has more than 20 years experience of successfully leading business to business strategy, marketing and client services for accomplished companies in the technology, media and professional services industries. Most recently, Ms. Witteveen was entrepreneur in residence at Monitor Ventures where she worked with various technology companies. Ms. Witteveen has served as Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Target Media Networks, Director of Strategy at Razorfish, and Global Account Manager at Monitor Group. At the Monitor Group, she was responsible for consulting services and project delivery to Fortune 500 clients, building on her work as Principal Consultant with Price Waterhouse. Ms. Witteveen holds an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and a BBA from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Taylor is the Vice President of Marketing for MediaPlatform®. He has fifteen years of experience in technology marketing, including such roles as Public Relations Manager for SharePoint Technologies at Microsoft and Social Software Evangelist at IBM. He served as VP of Marketing Communications at SOA software for five years. He is the recipient of the MarCom Platinum Award for his white paper writing. Taylor is the author of three books on enterprise software and business, as well as dozens of magazine articles and papers. At UC Berkeley, Mr. Taylor is on the faculty of Berkeley Law (Boalt) and the School of Information, where he teaches about the financial aspects of information technology. He earned his BA and MBA from Harvard.

Ms. Kendros is the Vice President of Finance and Administration of MediaPlatform®. She is responsible for establishing and managing the company’s financial, human resources, legal and administrative functions. Ms. Kendros has over fifteen years of experience and has managed venture financings, complex operational challenges and numerous mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, Ms. Kendros was the Chief Administrative Officer at SOA Software, where she was responsible for finance, human resources and administration, including internal control procedures, forecasting, budgeting, financial analysis and presentation of financial statements. Previously, Ms. Kendros was Vice President of Human Resources at US Interactive where she was involved in all aspects of the growth of the company, a vital part of its successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999 and responsible for more than 600 employees in nine offices across the United States. Prior to US Interactive, Ms. Kendros was responsible for finance at its predecessor company, and held the position of Assistant Controller at Imagic, Inc. in Hollywood, California.


