Blog Contributors
Ali Behnam
Ali Behnam joined Tealium in March 2008 to pursue his passion to provide high-end, results-driven digital marketing consulting.
Prior to Tealium, he held several senior marketing and consulting positions at WebSideStory and Visual Sciences (now Omniture). He joined WebSideStory in a product management role where he managed the company’s enterprise-level products. He managed the rebranding of the product line from HitBox Enterprise to HBX. Later, he joined the company’s Professional Services team to provide advanced consulting services to the company’s strategic clients such as Citigroup, Pfizer and Verizon Wireless, and introducing the Visual Sciences Benchmark Index.
Ali holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Science from UCSD (University of California, San Diego).
Mike Anderson
Mike joined Tealium in March 2008. Prior to Tealium, he joined Websidestory/Visual Sciences/Omniture as a Senior Engineer, and was quickly named to the HBX core architecture team. In his engineering capacities, he authored the HBX implementation component, co-authored the HBXStream Webservices platform, and wrote the clustering software to process the Active Segmentation engine. With a desire to work closely with customers, Mike transitioned to the Professional Services team and built the technology consulting practice. In this position he handled all complex HBX and Visual Sciences Platform 5 (now Discover OnPremise) customer implementations including: Disney, Best Buy, Target, Cisco, Citi, Comcast, FedEx, Allstate, Kayak, Hasbro, AIG, Schwab, New York Life, Pfizer, Verizon and YouTube. He also provided all HBXStream, Datafeed, and technology training/certification consulting for HBX.
Mike’s contributions to “Visitor Insights” will be in the areas of Web analytics implementation and advanced page tagging techniques.
Mike studied Electrical Engineering at University of California, San Diego and Computer Science at California State University San Marcos.
Olivier Silvestre
Olivier Silvestre founded Tealium in February 2008 based on his passion for the field of Web analytics. Olivier has over 9 years of Web Analytics experience.
Prior to Tealium, he held several upper management positions at Visual Sciences and WebSideStory (now Omniture) in the fields of marketing E-business Intelligence and Professional Services. As Director of Web Analytics and Optimization Consulting, Silvestre?s day to day job was to help Fortune 500 customers turn information into actions to maximize their online profitability. He was in charge of creating new customer data visualization tools and optimization services that drive ROI and improved communication for clients. He also managed a team of vertical specialists who are practice leaders and subject matter experts across a diverse range of sectors ranging from Media & Publishing, Commerce and Financial Services to Travel & Hospitality.
Olivier holds a Bachelor in electronics and an MBA from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, one of the leading business school in France, and has published many industry related articles, and is a regular speaker at industry events.