I'm a technologist at heart and have been fortunate to be the founder of a number of successful (and some unsuccessful!) start-ups, including Redfin and RichRelevance on the commercial side and MyTwoFrontTeeth (now a part of Family Giving Tree) and The Darfur Stoves Project (now Potential Energy) on the NGO side. I'm currently deeply engaged in my most challenging role so far--being a dad! But I am still connected to the community through a variety of advisory roles, board roles and a few investments here and there. Specialties: Data mining, personalization, robotics, machine learning, knowledge discovery, software development, engineering, engineering process, technical project management, business development.

Founder and Board member @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Advisor @ NeonMob is a consumer-facing experience focused on creating the next great marketplace platform for artists and creatives. They've got crazy-good engagement from their users and have the most interesting virtual goods I've ever seen! From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Member of the Board of Directors @ Potential Energy/Darfur Stoves Project brings technology to improve the quality of life to emerging markets. Our first initiative is the Darfur Stoves Project which designed a safe and energy-efficient stove to the women of Darfur in partnership with OxFam. From January 2011 to January 2015 (4 years 1 month) CEO / Founder @ RichRelevance is the global leader in omnichannel personalization. Ranked #1 for personalization in both the US and EMEA, RichRelevance is used by more than 175 multinational companies to create a data-centric, single view of the shopper, delivering the most relevant experiences across web, mobile and in store. RichRelevance drives more than one billion decisions every day, and has generated over $10 billion in sales for its clients, which include Target, Costco, Marks & Spencer and Priceminister. Recently, the company opened its cloud-based platform through its service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accelerate “Relevance in Store”—a strategic omnichannel initiative that enables clients to seamlessly merge disparate data sources and build applications that adapt to where, when and how consumers shop today. Headquartered in San Francisco, RichRelevance has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work” and a “Most Engaged Workplace” in the Bay Area for numerous years, and serves clients in 35 countries from 8 offices around the globe. For more information, please visit www.richrelevance.com. From February 2006 to January 2015 (9 years) Advisor @ 500friends is enabling 50+ leading retailers to increase their customer LTV. The company is backed by $12M+ from leading institutional investors including Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Fung Capital (Li & Fung) and YCombinator. From December 2010 to October 2014 (3 years 11 months) Founding Advisor @ Proud to announce I am a Palindrome Founding Advisor @palindromeadv. Leading by example on how tech and media execs can give back. Visit us: http://bit.ly/glWY9d From 2011 to 2013 (2 years) Chairman @ Interactive Touch Books is revolutionizing the magical world of children's books by enabling authors to realize their wildest dreams, and children to interact with their favorite characters. ITB is the only solution which enables authors to easily and scalably access the power of the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. From December 2010 to 2013 (3 years) Member of the Board of Directors @ The Family Giving Tree provides backpacks and holiday gifts to children from underprivileged families. We bring personalization and social goodwill to the giving process through our Back To School and holiday gift giving programs. From May 2007 to December 2012 (5 years 8 months) Technical Advisory Board Member @ Sense Networks operates a real-time sensor data platform for decision support across multiple industries. The company develops cutting-edge machine learning technology that enables real-time analysis of massive amounts of emergent and previously untapped data. From July 2006 to 2012 (6 years) Founder/CTO @ MyTwoFrontTeeth has been recognized as one of the most socially and fiscally efficient organizations in the United States. We provide gifts to needy families during the holiday season leveraging the operational efficiency of the internet, the economical efficiency of a centralized purchasing and distribution model and the personalization features enabled by internet technology. This is by far one of my greatest achievements. [UPDATE May, 2007] We merged with Family Giving Tree. Josh and I now sit on the board of Family Giving Tree. From October 1998 to May 2007 (8 years 8 months) VP of Software Development, Personalization and Data Mining @ I oversaw the recovery of a sideways ERP implementation, initiated the profitable launch of the Overstock co-branded credit card and directed the analytics group to focus on upsell, cross-sell and customer experience. From April 2005 to December 2005 (9 months) Founder/CTO @ Chief Technology Officer at Redfin, the premier online real estate marketplace. From March 2004 to April 2005 (1 year 2 months) Software Manager, Customer Behavior Research @ Managed Customer Behavior Research (data mining) and site optimization organizations in Amazon.Com's world-class Personalization Department (originally "Amazon Research"). Recruited top computer scientists from around the world and deployed numerous profitable projects at Amazon. Created and managed an 8TB customer-based data warehouse. Over the course of my tenure here, our group increased Amazon's annual profits by over $40 million (~25% of US profit). We created four software patents, and one internal and one external academic publication, including "The Impact of Website Performance on Conversion" which analyzed the correlation between site latency and revenue, reaching one of the seminal e-commerce infrastructure conclusions. From January 2003 to October 2004 (1 year 10 months) Software Engineer @ From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Software and IT engineer @ From 1997 to 1999 (2 years)

BS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1996 to 2003 Grants Pass From 1992 to 1996 Dave Selinger is skilled in: Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering, User Modeling, Software Development, Business Development, Personalization, Project Management, CRM, E-commerce, User Experience, SaaS, SEO, Product Management, Start-ups