Ido Pollak

Chairman, Groupon Israel

Location: Israel
Industry: Internet

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Ido Pollak's Overview

Current

Group CTO at Matomy Media Group
Chairman at UppSite
Chairman at Groupon Israel

Past

Advisory at tawkon
CEO - New Media at RGE Group LTD
Co Founder & CEO at TheMarker

Business Development Executive at Bulldog Communications
Chief Technology Officer at Brightview Group Limited
CTO at TheMarker
CTO & Co Founder at TheMarker.com

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Education

Hamaslool Ha'akademi shel Hamichlala Leminhal

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Connections

500+ connections

Experienced Internet entrepreneur. Co-Founded and later was the CEO of TheMarker, Israel's largest financial media company.
Was part of the founding team of Grouper, a local clone of Groupon that was later sold to Groupon and now acting as the chairman of Groupon Israel. Actively advising number of startup companies.

Specialties

Vast experiance in setting up, building and mamanging Internet companies.

Group CTO

Matomy Media Group

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

May 2012 – Present (1 year 2 months)

Chairman

UppSite

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

October 2011 – Present (1 year 9 months)

MySite has the best apping and submiting engine, allowing every website to go fully mobile in just 5 min

Chairman

Groupon Israel

Internet industry

May 2010 – Present (3 years 2 months)

Advisory

tawkon

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry

October 2011 – April 2012 (7 months)

Control your exposure to cell phone radiation with tawkon, a free app that tracks your phone’s radiation levels and tells you what to do right now to safely ‘talk on’. * Your body absorbs radiation from your mobile phone...

CEO - New Media

RGE Group LTD

Internet industry

August 2010 – September 2011 (1 year 2 months)

Israel largest independent broadcaster, operates 9 TV channels, Sports, Children and Science

Co Founder & CEO

TheMarker

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry

November 2008 – May 2010 (1 year 7 months)

Business Development Executive

Bulldog Communications

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry

August 2004 – March 2005 (8 months)

Strategic corporate & business development, strategic partnerships.

Chief Technology Officer

Brightview Group Limited

June 2002 – February 2004 (1 year 9 months)

In charge of all technical and call centre operation, acting as line manager to a team of 50 strong who reported to me.
Accomplishments included the sole technical responsibility for the migration of acquired companies, the launching of a broadband service and the consolidation of two technical platforms, which resulted in cost saving of over £1M per annum.
Responsible for transition of two call centres to an offshore-outsourced call centre resulting in cost savings of £700K per annum.
Actively participated in re-negotiating a deals with major Telco providers.