Management Team

SyCara’s management team brings over 35 years of search, social and software experience with executive credentials at leading search companies such as Yahoo! and Microsoft. Our management team continues to bring industry-leading innovations in technology to the SyCara SEO Platform and its customers.

Dan BobergDan Boberg – CEOA seasoned internet advertising executive, Boberg most recently was Vice President of Advertiser and Agency Professional Services for Yahoo! Inc. In this role, he was responsible for driving consulting, technology integration, Right Media deployment and custom solutions for Yahoo!’s largest advertiser and agency partners. He joined GoTo.com, the company that pioneered paid search engine listings in April 1999 (acquired after a name change to Overture.com by Yahoo! in 2003).Named as one of B2B Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People Online in 2004, Boberg worked to drive Yahoo!’s industry leadership in key areas for many years. Boberg was responsible for the launch and ongoing leadership of Yahoo!’s Enterprise Web Services (EWS), a commercial developer program that enables programmatic campaign management via APIs of Yahoo! ad products including Sponsored Search and the Right Media Exchange. Prior, he served as General Manager of Yahoo!’s SEM business, which enables search engine marketing companies to streamline their work with Yahoo! to drive targeted sales leads to clients.Boberg’s MBA internship was as a member of Microsoft’s product planning team responsible for developing the personal financial management software product Microsoft Money. Boberg received an MBA with emphasis in Marketing and Technology from the University of Southern California.
Jen DorreJennifer Dorre – COOWith over 13 years experience in the search marketing industry, Dorre most recently was Director of Search and Ad Sales at Microsoft. Dorre was one of the key people in starting Microsoft’s paid search business. Most recently, she led Microsoft’s paid search and advertising sales team, growing Microsoft’s paid search business to over $300M in revenue. Prior to that, she led the launch of Microsoft AdCenter which included numerous innovations in paid search, such as demographic and geographic targeting. During her six years at Microsoft, Dorre also led product, marketing and sales departments. While at Microsoft, she won several top awards including the 2007 Circle of Excellence Winner & 2008 Consumer & Online Champion Award.Prior to Microsoft, Dorre worked in product & business development at Yahoo! Search Marketing (previously Overture). At Overture, she led the roll out of the contextual advertising product. She also spent several years in management consulting at Price Waterhouse Coopers (previously Diamond Technology Partners), focusing on consulting to companies in product management and product development projects. Her largest project at Diamond was rolling out an Internet bank in Brazil for one of the largest commercial Brazilian banks.Dorre holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley.
Dylan DownhillDylan Downhill – Chief ArchitectDylan is a renowned expert on search engine marketing and was integral in developing the curriculum for the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO) Institute, the educational arm of SEMPO. He is an industry veteran and prior to SyCara led the software development efforts for a major hotel reservation systems organization. During this time he helped increase online reservations by more than 1500%. Dylan owned and operated a successful IT consultancy business in England and has been developing enterprise-class web applications since 1997.Dylan is the chief architect of SyCara’s proprietary reporting and monitoring technologies. He has sat on the advisory councils of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.