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San Francisco, CA-based LiveFyre has Appointed Ramana Rao as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation. The new Livefyre Studio puts billions of pieces of content at a marketer`s fingertips and lets them integrate that content into their digital marketing assets, websites, and mobile apps to increase traffic, user engagement and revenue. Named a leader among social depth platforms by Forrester Research, Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including AOL, Bravo, CBS, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, Dow Jones/WSJ, FOX Sports, Mashable, NASCAR, Showtime, Sony PlayStation, Sports Illustrated, Unilever and Universal Music Group. Livefyre acquired social storytelling platform Storify in September 2013 and social application provider Realtidbits in November 2013. Founded in 2009 with offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Sydney, Livefyre was named one of the best places to work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times two years in a row and 2013 Corporate IT Software Company of the year by the World Technology Network.
About the Person
Ramana Rao is a high profile entrepreneur and digital thought leader in the Bay Area. Previously, he served as VP of Product for The Washington Post Company after it acquired iCurrent, a personal news aggregator that he founded. Rao previously spun Inxight Software, Inc. out from the legendary Xerox PARC. As Inxight’s Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for the strategic vision and architecture of the company's products and technologies. Rao’s pioneering work in information visualization and text analytics includes 25 patents and patent applications and many highly-cited research papers. He has also spoken at many influential conferences including TED, Next 20 Years, DEMO, and the International Design Conference in Aspen.
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