Canoe Ventures

June 11 2009

In the US, Canoe Ventures – a firm founded to make it easier for advertisers to buy, use and measure ad technologies – has appointed Kathy Timko as Chief Operating Officer. Canoe is a joint venture launched by US cable operators, and is currently building a centralized database infrastructure to collect set-top box data. In the near future, the company expects to provide viewing metrics for 32 million US cable households, representing about 57 million set-tops. Timko was most recently COO of Carrier Services at telecoms firm IDT, where she directed pricing, profit optimization, business metrics reporting and operations. Before this, she spent several years as EVP of Development and Operations at Call Sciences, and worked on communications and software systems for Bellcore. In her new role, she will report to CEO David Verklin, who comments: ‘Kathy’s successful career in managing and scaling high-tech organizations will serve us well during this critical time as we continue to expand our team, build our platform, and develop and deploy our first products.’ The New York-based firm is online at: www.canoe-ventures.com . Printer-friendly version of this article. Email this article to a friend. Register for News emails