CEO & Co-Founder

Munjal Shah is Co-founder and CEO of Like.com. Together with Burak Gokturk, he co-founded the company in August of 2004. Munjal is a serial entrepreneur who focuses on building companies from zero to millions in revenue. Prior to Like.com he was co-founder and CEO of Andale Inc, a provider of software to eBay merchants. While he was CEO, Andale grew from 0 to double digit millions in revenue. Prior to Andale, Baan, IBM, and a startup called Blaxxun Interactive. Munjal started his career in artificial intelligence, writing software for Agouron Pharmaceuticals that predicted the efficacy of anti-HIV drugs.

BusinessWeek declared Munjal one of the Top 10 up and coming CEOs in 2001. Munjal has been quoted of hundreds of magazines including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business 2.0, and many others. Munjal has won a Demo God award for the launch of Like.com in 2006. Munjal sits on the advisor board to a number of very early stage startups including: Yousendit, Auyptima (sold to Oracle), Pubmatic, and MesmoTV.

Munjal is very active in the Entrepreneurial community. In 1996 he co-founded Round Zero, a very popular networking forum during the first Internet boom. He is a charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur) in Bangalore and writes a blog sharing his experiences as an entrepreneur here http://munjal.typepad.com.

He received his Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and his Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Burak is the CTO and co-founder at Like.com, and he and his team are the 'brains' behind Like.com's visual search technology. It is Burak's desire to bring the usefulness of the computer vision science to human's attention in this exciting venture. His team's current work aligns with this goal and includes detection and recognition of objects in photos, and similarity search of objects under uncontrolled conditions. His team has also recently focused on developing technologies for online marketing, and on connecting online marketing efforts with search technologies for a better user experience.

Prior to Like.com, he developed computer vision algorithms at Canesta, Intel and BEKO. He has been in the vision field for more than 12 years, published more than 30 papers, and holds more than 25 patents/patent applications. His computer vision algorithms have been prototyped and/or implemented in various computer vision products. He developed a 3D shape representation scheme, called 'Random Orthogonal Shape Sections', which achieved one of the best recognition rates for the detection of colon cancer. His other research concentrated on tracking, detection and recognition of 3D shapes and faces, similarity of image representations, medical imaging, 3D image compression. Burak received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science form Bogazici University, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

http://ai.stanford.edu/~gokturkb/

Vice President, Finance

Matthew Mitchell has nearly a decade of experience in finance and operations at successful Internet businesses.

Prior to joining Like.com in April 2008, Matthew spent four years as Director of Finance & Controller of Reunion.com, a leading people search service and social networking community based in Los Angeles. He was responsible for all finance operations, including forecasting and planning, audit oversight, investment banking, capital structure, and budgeting. He also supported business affairs and business development operations, and served as Corporate Secretary.

Earlier, Matthew held various roles in finance and operations with Homestore.com (now Move, Inc.), the leading supplier of media and technology solutions that connect real estate professionals to consumers, and RealNetworks, where he helped in the earliest stages of its digital music platform, MusicNet.

Matthew holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Pepperdine University and a B.A. in Business Administration from Seattle University, with a major in E-Commerce and Information Systems.

A Seattle native, Matthew has been waiting 30 years for the Seattle Seahawks or Mariners to bring home a championship.

Vice President, Business Development & Sales

Gaurav Suri is Vice President of Business Development & Sales at Like.com.

Gaurav has extensive entrepreneurial experience in building consumer-focused technology businesses, including start-ups as well as new businesses for established media leaders. His experience includes building and leading marketing, business development and operational teams, as well as developing technology-based ideas into innovative products and successful businesses.

Prior to joining Like.com, Gaurav was Chief Operating Officer for myTriggers.com, a next-generation comparison shopping site. Earlier, he was VP, New Business Development for NexTag, the leading comparison shopping search engine for Products & Services. Prior to that, Gaurav worked at AOL as Vice President AOL Products, Partner Platforms. He has also held senior business development and operational roles with Veon (sold to Philips Electronics), Comcast Online (Comcast@Home) and Prodigy. Gaurav began his career in investment banking with Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley ) in New York.

Gaurav received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. in Economics with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.