About Tapjoy

Jeff Drobick is President & CEO at Tapjoy. He previously served as Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Tapjoy since 2013, driving the company’s overall product vision and strategy while overseeing its product management, design, engineering, devops and data science teams.

Prior to Tapjoy, Drobick served as CEO of Geeknet Media and also spent nearly 12 years at eBay, where he held technology positions such as Vice President of Customer Service Technology and Vice President of IMD & Product Development. Prior to eBay, he spent nearly 8 years in Accenture’s global technology practice.

Shannon is the Global Chief Revenue Officer at Tapjoy where she has led our advertising sales efforts since 2009. Last year, Shannon not only led us through our most successful year overall but one of the most successful quarters the company has seen.

Prior to joining Tapjoy, Shannon held executive roles in sales, marketing, product management, and finance at Fortune 250 distributor, Merisel (MSEL). She was the Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at Citrix as well as being one of the original founders of B2Bstores.com (BTBC) where she was the EVP of sales and marketing. She assisted with the company’s successful IPO and subsequent acquisition.

Paul Longhenry is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate and Business Development at Tapjoy, where he is responsible for direction and execution of strategic partnerships and M&A efforts.

Prior to joining Tapjoy in early 2011, Paul was a Principal with D.E. Shaw Ventures where he focused on investments across the mobile sector. Previously, Paul served as VP of Business Development for Sonim Technologies, a mobile VoIP software and services provider. Before Sonim, Paul was an early stage mobile investor for 3i Venture Capital.

Benjamin Chen is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Developer Relations at Tapjoy. Chen is responsible for all aspects of global supply side partnerships which includes go to market strategy, new business development, account management, and developer operations.

Chen is a veteran in mobile monetization and previously served as EVP of Global Developer Relations at Fyber and has overseen publisher partnerships at some of the world’s largest mobile game studios including GREE and DeN.

Sarah Chafer is Senior Vice President of Global Performance Sales at Tapjoy. She is responsible for global performance revenue growth and product adoption. She has been with the company since 2009 and saw them through the transition from web-based advertising to mobile in 2010.

Prior to joining Tapjoy, Sarah was a Media Director at Medley, Inc. a global digital agency responsible for dating brands. There she was responsible for the user acquisition and affiliate sales team. Sarah has previously held sr. level roles at IAC, and Yahoo!, Inc.

Moonsik Kang is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Tapjoy.

Surendra Pathak is Senior Vice President of Platform Engineering at Tapjoy.

Brett Nicholson is the SVP of Operations at Tapjoy. Brett’s focus is on the daily business functions including advertising operations, business intelligence and user experience. Drawing on over 7 years at Tapjoy in a variety of commercial roles, he’s a driving force behind functional efficiency, operational excellence and business analytics.

Prior to Tapjoy, Brett spend over six years at Commission Junction working with advertisers and publishers in both a sales and account management role. Brett graduated from the University of Denver focusing on statistics and spent time at Boise State University in his home state of Idaho.

Emily McInerney is Vice President of Marketing at Tapjoy.

Ted is the CEO and co-founder of Tapdaq, a programmatic mediation and cross promotion platform Tapjoy acquired in November ’18. Ted is responsible for all aspects of mediation, which encapsulates the go-to-market strategy, new business and product development, as well as the day to day running of the company.

Profiled internationally in worldwide media, including Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, TechCrunch, and the BBC, Ted is a serial entrepreneur who has been creating online companies from the age of 12. Nash has won numerous accolades throughout his career, being named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2015, and also recognized as the ‘Global Mobile Innovator Of The Year’ at Mobile World Congress later that year.

Lara Williams is GC & VP Legal at Tapjoy, responsible for all things legal at Tapjoy. Before taking the dedicated GC role at Tapjoy, Williams provided fractional GC and other legal services to Tapjoy, Nextdoor, and other emerging growth companies for several years.

Prior to opening the fractional GC practice, she served as general counsel to Blue Martini Software (NASDAQ: BLUE), and prior to that, spent 5 years with Cooley LLP. She holds a JD with distinction from Stanford and a BA cum laude from Yale.