Adi Sideman

Founder and CEO

Adi Sideman is a pioneer in participatory media, an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience creating apps and companies in the user-generated video space.

Adi founded YouNow in 2011 to provide a live social platform for people to connect, interact, and express themselves. YouNow grew to be a global social network with more than 40 million users and over 120 million user sessions per month. YouNow was a finalist for TechCrunch’s Fastest Rising Startup of 2015 Awards.

As a developer, Adi produced the first-ever animated ads on AOL and created more than 30 online games for major-studio franchises, including the Matrix Game for the famed Warner Brothers Movie. In 1999, he founded the interactive media technology firm Oddcast, which continues to develop interactive media apps such as "Elf Yourself". In 2005 Adi co-founded KSolo, the first online karaoke service (acquired by Fox Interactive/MySpace) and, in 2006, Adi co-founded audio ad network TargetSpot, a joint venture with CBS (acquired by Radionomy).

Yonatan Sela

Co-founder and CBO

Yonatan Sela is YouNow’s Chief Business Officer, and leads the company’s business operations and product strategy.

Prior to YouNow, Yonatan was a VC at Venrock, a firm whose past investments include Apple, Intel, AppNexus and others. He focused on opportunities in the Digital Media, FinTech and Bitcoin/Blockchain verticals. Previously, Yonatan spent 5 years as VP Marketing and Product Strategy at Tvinci, an online video / OTT platform. He led Tvinci to 8 figures in revenue and an acquisition by Kaltura in 2014. Yonatan also co-founded Bookn'tell, an app that simplifies friend referrals for local service businesses.

Yonatan is an Air Force Captain and a Boston Consulting Group alumnus. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Eastern Philosophy and an M.B.A. from Wharton.

Eran Kalmanson

CTO

Eran Kalmanson leads product and infrastructure engineering at YouNow.

Previously, Eran was an early employee at SundaySky, an industry leader in the mass generation of dynamic video. At SundaySky, he was a Release Manager and an audio and video engineer. Eran served 6 years in the Israeli intelligence corps’ elite technological unit, where he was a software development Team Lead. The main project for which his team was responsible won the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for Innovation.

Eran is a military lieutenant, holds a B.A. in Computer Science from The Open University, and holds a B.A. in Gastronomic Science from l’università di Scienze Gastronomiche.

Shehab Hamad

Head of Product

Shehab Hamad is the Head of Product at YouNow, leading both the product development and design teams.

Previously, Shehab served as the founder and CEO of Makook Studio, until 2017. Shehab was a senior product manager at Amazon for 3 years, where he launched Amazon Glacier at Amazon Web Services, and led Author and Social products at Kindle and Goodreads. He also worked as a product manager at Path.

Shehab holds an electrical engineering undergraduate degree from Imperial College London and an M.B.A. from Columbia University and UC Berkeley Haas.

Jake Branzburg

VP Content & Marketing

Jake Branzburg leads YouNow’s Content and Marketing teams.

Prior to joining YouNow, Jake managed a number of teams at Uber, where he set marketing strategy, negotiated and implemented long-lasting business development initiatives, and led a number of grassroots organization efforts in the northeast across 3+ years of rapid organizational growth. Previously, Jake spent multi-year stints in finance at Goldman Sachs and youth development at Summer Search, where he managed the non-profit’s national growth strategy.

Jake holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Candice Reeves

VP Operations

Candice Reeves is YouNow's VP Operations. Candice developed the YouNow Trust & Safety team, building a safe and welcoming community for the platform’s 40+ million users. She currently oversees fraud prevention, customer service, and general operations.

Candice holds a B.A. in English Literature and Environmental Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Alejandro Moreno-Paz

Director of Finance

Alejandro Moreno-Paz serves as Director of Finance at YouNow.

Previously, Alejandro worked at Viacom Media Networks from 2008 to 2014 in a variety of functions, including Manager of Strategy and Business Development for Comedy Central, SpikeTV and TV Land. He also worked as Assistant Controller and Business Analyst at Localvox, a digital marketing startup.

Alejandro holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Boston University, with a double concentration in finance and accounting.

Peter Watts

Sr. Director, Platform

Peter Watts is the Senior Director of Blockchain Platform at YouNow, where he leads the Platform team and runs all blockchain integrations. Since joining YouNow, Peter has led many platform initiatives, such as the development of YouNow’s web application and spearheading YouNow’s growth team.

Previously, Peter founded Swarm.fm, a music discovery company and early partner on the Spotify App Platform. Peter is a self-taught software engineer who has years of experience building applications for bands and music venues.

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