Management
Tom Wilde
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Wilde is a widely recognized leader in the field of Internet search and online advertising, and prior to becoming RAMP’s CEO has held numerous leadership roles in the field including SVP/GM of the Consumer Division at domain portfolio company NameMedia, senior vice president and general manager of MIVA Inc.’s North American division, responsible for both MIVA’s U.S. online advertising network as well as the company’s consumer business, and senior operating roles managing Terra Lycos’ global search & publishing divisions. Tom has also served on the IAB Search Engine Committee and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Stephen Baker
Chief Revenue Officer
As RAMP’s chief revenue officer, Stephen is responsible for all customer facing activities, including business development, advertising sales, and client services. A veteran of the online search and publishing industry, Stephen joined RAMP from leadership roles at Reed Elsevier, FAST, and Yahoo. Most recently, Stephen was CEO of RB Search, Reed Elsevier’s strategic business unit tasked with developing Reed’s cross-business global search engine and search marketing platform to support over 1,000 RBI and affiliate sites. At FAST Stephen was VP/General manager responsible for all of FAST’s strategic business development initiatives and customer delivery lifecycle. Under Stephen’s leadership, FAST’s revenues grew from $26M to $129M over a three year period, and he was a key contributor to FAST’s successful $100M sale of its Web Search business unit to Yahoo.
Raymond Lau, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Raymond Lau has been leading entrepreneurial technology efforts for over two decades. Prior to joining RAMP, he was a senior technology lead for IBM’s Content Discovery Services group, which acquired iPhrase Technologies, Inc., a company Ray co-founded. iPhrase was a provider of high value enterprise search solutions to Fortune 1000 customers including Charles Schwab, Staples and CA. Some of Ray’s other entrepreneurial efforts include Handango, a leading distributor of software for mobile devices and StuffIt, the data archival standard on MacOS from 1987 onwards. Dr. Lau received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D., all in computer science, from MIT. His doctoral work was in the area of syllable modeling for voice recognition.
Bob Fogarty
Senior Vice President, Client Services
Bob is responsible for the launch, support and ongoing account management of RAMP’s customers. As part of RAMP’s founding team, and prior to assuming the SVP of Client Services role, Bob was VP of Business Development. Prior to RAMP, Bob worked as VP of Sales & Business Development at BBN Technologies. Before BBN, Bob directed marketing and product management at Teradyne, the worldwide leader in automatic test solutions. Prior to this, Bob started and ran the storage networking product line for Empirix, a spinout of Teradyne and the leading provider of web application and network infrastructure test and monitoring solutions. Prior to Empirix, Bob held sales, sales and product management positions at Teradyne and operations and engineering positions at General Electric. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSEE from Northeastern University.
Joe Lichtman
Vice President, Product
Joe Lichtman is VP of Product at RAMP where he is responsible for product and technical strategy. Prior to this role, Joe led Technical Sales and successfully launched RAMP’s Managed Services program. With over 10 years of experience in developing and delivering technology products and solutions, Joe most recently held product management positions at Microsoft and FAST Search & Transfer, where he was responsible for product strategy and marketing for the Media market.
Nate Treloar
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Nate Treloar is VP of Technology for Strategic Markets at RAMP where he is responsible for expanding RAMP’s industry leading Content Optimization and Video Search solutions into new markets. Prior to RAMP, Nate was the Principal Search Technology Evangelist in the Microsoft Enterprise Search Group and held responsibility for the group’s technology innovation and evangelism programs.
