Paxton Song
CEO and Founder
paxton@veruta.com

Prior to founding Veruta, Paxton was most recently in charge of Product Management for graphical advertising on eBay, Inc where his efforts were responsible for over $85M in annual advertising revenue. He was also responsible for evaluating and implementing strategic third party alliances with key portals and online advertising networks. During his four-year tenure with eBay, Paxton also held various managerial roles on the Customer Insights and Analytics team where he was responsible for analyzing and understanding various product initiatives as well as user behavioral and lifecycle patterns.

Previous to eBay, Paxton has worked across various industries ranging from aerospace, to consulting, to various Silicon Valley startups including Chipshot.com. Paxton has an MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University.

Also interesting to note is Paxton's past experience as a professional golfer where he was a fully exempt member of the 1995 and 1997 Asian Tour. His brush with greatness came when he played with 2003 Masters Champion, Mike Weir, in the 1995 Bali Open in Indonesia.

Arnaud Tellier
CTO and Founder
arnaud@veruta.com

Before joining Veruta, Arnaud was Founder and CTO of Wambo.com, a peer-to-peer distributed file sharing startup, that successfully raised $2M in funding. Arnaud also spent several years as a Sr. Software Architect at Stanford Research Center/NASA where he worked on bleeding edge technologies such as integrating Bluetooth devices into spacesuits.

Arnaud's expertise lies within software architecture, database design and optimization, networking, scalable systems designs and algorithms. He is armed with a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MS in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris. Arnaud is also credited with two patents while at NASA, four provisional patents from Wambo, and over 15 publications.

In his spare time Arnaud enjoys expunging high octane fossil fuels in the form of auto racing in his Mazda Miata. He also previously owned a BMW M3 in which he frequently ignored posted highway speed limits.