Michael Yavonditte

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Mr. Michael Yavonditte is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Yieldmo. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Hashable. Mr. Yavonditte served as the Chief Executive Officer of Quigo Technologies, Inc. since 2002. He served as Vice President Of Sales at USA Networks Electronic Commerce Solutions Group in New York. In that position, he was responsible for negotiating complex 'outsourced' e-commerce alliances with leading U.S. retailers. His group managed the e-commerce operations at CBS Sportsline, Nascar.com and the National Hockey League. In 2000, he joined AltaVista, a CMGI-owned company, where he quickly negotiated and closed several large, multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements for AltaVista. He also took an interest in figuring out new ways to monetize relevancy-based search results and was instrumental in the formation of the Trusted Feed program. Mr. Yavonditte served as Managing Director of the Strategic Alliances Group, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of AV's business development activities and one of their largest revenue streams. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. as a Director in their business development group. In 1998, he was promoted to Vice President and continued to focus on negotiating large advertising and e-commerce agreements. He started his career at Ziff-Davis Publishing in New York where he held various sales and management roles.He served as Director of Quigo Technologies, Inc. In 1996, he was named one of only three ZD employees to win the coveted Chairman's Club Award two consecutive years. Mr. Yavonditte has a degree in Business and Political Science from Pace University in New York.