Outbrain Names Ronen Koehler Head of Staff

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Outbrain today announced the appointment of Ronen Koehler to Head of Staff, a newly created position that reflects the growing global footprint of the world's largest content discovery platform. Koehler, who reports to CEO Yaron Galai, will be charged with overseeing the company's staff and initiatives globally.

"As Outbrain continues to grow at a rapid pace, creating a new position and placing Ronen Koehler as Head of Staff is a fitting next step," said Yaron Galai, CEO and founder of Outbrain. "Koehler's extensive background in software, technology and overall personnel management will play a key role in Outbrain's 2015 expansion."

Koehler is a highly skilled inter-disciplinary executive and consultant. His background is both in the IT industry and across various Israeli military organizations. Over the past 13 years, Koehler served as an executive at one of Israel's flagship IT companies, Check Point software technologies. At Check Point, Koehler was the leader of the operations group, and in the last six years worked as Global Head of Human Resources, reporting to the CEO. In this role, Koehler led organizational changes on a global basis, mergers and acquisitions as well as executive hiring, leadership development and internal consulting to the company's executives. Check Point is a publicly traded company (CHKP) listed on the Nasdaq 100, with a current market cap of 14 billion.

Koehler's experience also comprises over 30 years in the Israeli Navy, including 17 years in active service and 14 years as a reservist. In active service Ronen served as a naval officer, a missile boat captain and a submarine commanding-captain.

Earlier this year Outbrain announced the nomination of Elise Garofalo as CFO and Ziv Kop as COO. These strategic hires come at a crucial time for Outbrain as the company plans its 2015 growth and continues to build infrastructure for scale. Founded in 2006 as the first content discovery platform, Outbrain now has a global presence in the U.S., U.K., Israel, Singapore, Japan and Australia and serves more than 190 billion personalized content recommendations every month.

About Outbrain:

Outbrain (http://www.outbrain.com/) is the world's largest content discovery platform, bringing personalized, relevant online, mobile and video content to audiences while helping publishers understand their audiences through data. Outbrain serves over 190 billion personalized content recommendations every month and reaches over 561 million unique visitors from across the globe.

Outbrain's expansion to some of the web's largest global properties is a reflection of its rapid growth and its successful innovations in supporting a new era of digital publishing. Top-tier premium publications that currently leverage the Outbrain platform include: CNN, ESPN, Le Monde, Fox News, The Guardian, Slate, The Telegraph, New York Post, Times of India and Sky News.

Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York with a presence in a growing number of locations globally, including the U.S., U.K., Israel, Singapore, Japan and Australia.

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