Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Trada Boosts Exec Team

Boulder-based Trada, which operates an online marketplace for finding paid search help, said today that it has named two executives. The firm said it has named Tim Mayer as Chief Strategy Officer, and Ben Wright as Vice President of Service Delivery and Marketplace. Mayer was most recently VP of Yahoo's search business, and also has served at Oversture Services, Fast Search & Transfer, Inktomi, and The Thomson Corporation. Wright joins Trada from Yahoo, where he was Senior Director of Search Creative Development, and has also been at GoTo.Com/Overture Services. Trada is venture backed by Google Ventures and Foundry Group.