US mobile customer intelligence solution provider Kontagent has hired former Yahoo! VP Charles Marker as Vice President of Engineering, to lead the ongoing design and development of its products.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, Kontagent offers clients worldwide a platform tracking more than 250 million monthly active users and 250 billion events each month, and its proprietary kSuite offers visualization and analysis of patterns in social media data.

Marker (pictured) previously served as VP of Operations and Developer Software at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for developing software to manage the company’s infrastructure. Earlier, he was VP of Software at Qualcomm/Atheros, and VP of Engineering at Geocast Network Systems. He also held various senior management roles at Silicon Graphics, and he co-founded BDNA Corporation, which provides IT infrastructure insight and analysis.

Kontagent co-founder and CEO Jeff Tseng comments: ‘As the mobile marketplace continues to expand and evolve, Charles’ engineering expertise and vision will be crucial in helping Kontagent develop its roadmap of products. He and his team will be instrumental in creating the mobile intelligence solutions our clients need to stay competitive in the ever-changing mobile environment.’

The firm has additional offices in New Jersey, Toronto, Seoul, Tokyo and London, and is online at www.kontagent.com .

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