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Conductor Hires Silicon Valley Technology Leader Matthew Baird as VP of Engineering
New York City Continues to Draw Top Technology Talent
| Source: Conductor, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 16, 2010) - Conductor, recently named to Crain's list of Best Places to Work in NYC, today announced
that Matthew Baird has
joined the company as Vice President of Engineering. Baird will be
overseeing all engineering and infrastructure for the premier provider of
SEO measurement and optimization technology.
Baird joins Conductor after a global search for an engineering leader to
help guide the rapid growth at the Manhattan-based company, and will lend
his considerable experience in developing enterprise-grade, high-volume,
high-availability software products and services in the continued evolution
and expansion of Conductor's technology product offerings.
"Successfully bringing Matthew to the Conductor team is a validation of
Conductor's continued growth, but is also a strong indicator that the New
York technology community is able to attract top-notch talent to move from
Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley. We are thrilled to have Matthew's
leadership and experience on the Conductor team," said Seth Besmertnik,
CEO.
Baird was previously the Vice President of Engineering and Operations for
San Mateo based Yield Software, and prior to that was VP of Technology at
Chordiant Software where he led the development of predictive analytics
products. Baird was also the founder and CTO of Motiva (acquired by Siebel
Systems), and has held senior engineering and management positions at
Oracle and PeopleSoft.
Baird is heavily involved in Open Source technology development and
industry specification and thought leadership. He is a committer and
top-level project board member in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is
a Sun JSR expert group member and also a W3C working group member. Baird
has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer and Information
Science/Statistics from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
About Conductor
Conductor is the leading provider
of SEO measurement and optimization technology, empowering enterprise
marketers to manage and improve their SEO efforts. Conductor Searchlight is
a subscription-based, software as a service (SaaS) platform which enables
customers to gather competitive data, prioritize and improve their decision
making, and accurately measure the ROI of their SEO efforts. Conductor also
offers a range of associated professional services to its over 200 Fortune
500 and Internet Retailer 500 clients, a majority of the leading
interactive agencies, and some of the world's most prestigious
publications. Based in New York City, the company was founded in 2005, and
is one of the fastest growing companies in New York.
The company is currently hiring.