Jay Sears

Jay Sears is SVP Marketplace Development for Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI), working with management and business unit heads across the company to expand Rubicon Project’s market. He works across the media owner and advertiser sides of the business globally to advance the company’s work with its top customers.

Sears joined in 2011 as GM, Buyer Cloud. In this capacity, he was responsible for global relations with the buy side including ad holding companies, ad agencies, advertisers, agency trading desks and demand side platforms headquartered in North America.

Prior to joining Rubicon Project, Sears was GM of the ad exchange for PulsePoint (FKA ContextWeb). Prior to joining ContextWeb in 2004, Sears was SVP Business & Strategy Development for EDGAR Online, where he drove the strategy that took the company from an under $1 million entrepreneurial business to a publicly traded NASDAQ company.