Kane will advise zvelo on strategic direction, market positioning and product evolution
Greenwood Village, Colorado – April 30, 2015 – zvelo, the leading provider of contextual categorization and malicious detection services that are used to generate a wide range of data sets about websites, web content, and more, has announced the appointment of Alison Kane as a Strategic Advisor to the zvelo Advisory Board.
Kane, who has a legacy of success working in executive roles for leading digital organizations, will advise zvelo on strategic direction, market positioning and product evolution.
“We are excited to have someone of Alison’s caliber advising us” quoted Jeff Finn, CEO of zvelo. “Her background in strategic roles and particularly her great strength in digital product innovation are going to propel zvelo forward. Alison has an impressive track record of helping digital companies grow.”
Alison Kane has over 20 years of strategic marketing, technology and operational expertise with a particular emphasis in digital products/services within the AdTech arena. She is currently Managing Director at Rogue Media, a boutique consulting firm focused on helping companies maximize digital trends. Prior to Rogue, she held Chief Digital Officer and Chief Product Management roles at Digital First Media, the operating entity of over 225 media publishing properties including the Denver Post. She has held executive positions at Local Matters, Atlas, The Fidelis Group and Trip.com. Kane earned an MS Management degree from Purdue University, an MBA from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and a BBA from the University of Denver.
About zvelo, Inc.
For nearly a decade, zvelo has been the leading provider of contextual categorization and malicious detection for URLS for a wide range of data sets and attributes, including language, category value mapped to IAB taxonomy, malicious website detection, piracy, objectionable content and more. These data sets are accessible through simple, intuitive APIs for integration with applications in online advertising, brand safety, network security, big data analytics and other use cases where accuracy, coverage, performance, multi-lingual support and scalability are required. Using proprietary “hybrid” categorization and detection techniques that combine Artificial Intelligence, supervised Machine Learning and human quality assurance, zvelo categorizes over 99% of the active web in nearly 500 categories and dozens of languages. zvelo is headquartered in Denver with offices in the Philippines, New York, Michigan and Spain.
