Kevin Saliba
Chief Executive Officer, Imagekind, Inc.
As the Chief Executive Officer of Imagekind, Kevin brings more than 10 years of
experience in business development, strategy and product development solutions from
a range of leading brands in both online and offline industries.
Prior to joining Imagekind, Kevin was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at
Expedia where he played a key role in the
creation and growth of the company's private label online booking business known
as WWTE. He also led Expedia's acquisition of several large affinity marketing partner
sites, led the product planning for a points-based online redemption tool, and directed
the Expedia Labs team in the launch of several new and innovative business products,
such as Expedia's first desktop application ("Fare Alert"). Kevin also championed
the launch of Expedia's partnership with TerraPass, which has now become the largest
private carbon offset program in the country.
Kevin holds an MBA from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering
from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Emanuel Bettelheim
Chief Technology Officer, Imagekind, Inc.
Emanuel Bettelheim joined Imagekind in May 2007 as Chief Technology Officer. He
is responsible for product development and technology at Imagekind, including product
management, software development, testing, IT and design.
Prior to joining Imagekind, Emanuel was Sr. Product Manager at Search Engine
Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) where he was responsible for the Webby award-winning
mobile vertical
Ask Mobile, which brought the search
engine’s existing online experience to mobile phones, as well as the ground-breaking
mapping products
Ask Maps and the local search
engine
Ask City. He previously was responsible
for yield management and financial analytics at Ask.com, managing the existing relationships
with Google and Yahoo, which provide the bulk of revenue for the company, as well
as optimization of the user experience to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction.
Previously, Emanuel had worked at
Expedia
in various key roles, including Program Manager for Expedia's Telesales division
and Product Manager for Customer Acquisition and Analytics. Telesales grew to become
one of Expedia's greatest revenue drivers, with significant amount of Expedia's
overall sales coming from the division. He also spent time as Product Planner and
Manager of the Internal Technologies group, charged with developing many of the
internal tools used for production, testing and deployment of Expedia's massive
codebase, as well as automated monitoring and analysis of competitive products.
During his tenure at Expedia Emanuel also spear-headed the company’s Search Engine
Optimization efforts, making Expedia one of the first Fortune-500 companies to include
SEO as a major customer acquisition strategy, and launched a number of cross-company
initiatives for parent company
IAC/InteractiveCorp,
coordinating with many of the 60+ online brands owned by IAC such as Match.com,
CitySearch, Lendingtree, HSN and ServiceMagic.
Emanuel received a dual Bachelor of Science degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology in Economics and Computer Science.