International Team

Dwayne Lafleur, Gründer & CEO

Dwayne Lafleur is an entrepreneur, hands-on technologist, founder, and CEO of Ezoic. Previously, Dwayne founded Cubics, the first display ad network for Facebook app developers. The ad network was unique because it used anonymous demographic data to target advertising to Facebook app users and launched prior to Facebook’s own ad targeting system.

After selling Cubics to Adknowledge Inc. in 2007, the social display division grew to serve more than 500 million ads per day. Dwayne continued to innovate within the company, spearheading the use of cloud computing architecture to handle the large volume of ads being served within Facebook apps and becoming Amazon’s biggest AWS customer at the time.

At Ezoic, Dwayne has established a business that is technically interesting, a first-of-its-kind, and able to scale to a large online market. He is originally from Alberta, Canada and now lives with his family in Carlsbad, CA.

John Cole, CCO

Formerly an officer in the British Royal Navy, John was a pioneering director of Media Run Group, which founded several online businesses—Media Run Search, Media Run Ad Network, and Blowfish Digital Ad Agency. Following the acquisition of Media Run Ad Network by Adknowledge Inc. in 2007, John managed the Adknowledge Social Games division in Europe. This included the Super Rewards virtual currency platform which monetized Facebook, MMO & Mobile Games, and Cubics—their social display advertising platform. After a brief and successful foray into the world of independent online publishing—as founder of UK website operator, ‘Epirical’—John sold his online interests to Ezoic in 2011 and joined as Chief Customer Officer. John recently moved back to London to open Ezoic’s London office.

Dan O’Bryan, CTO

Dan began his career with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He soon found his calling as a software engineer and systems architect, working on Launch Trajectory design for the Space Shuttle program—provisioning for Sprint long-distance networks and avionics software for Honeywell. Dan joined Adknowledge in 2005 and led the rebuild of the main Adknowledge advertiser portal (BidSystem), the Cubics Cloud migration, and integration of the MIVA XML Search platform.

Dan joined Ezoic as Chief Technology Officer. Originally from the Midwest, Dan moved with his family from Kansas City to Carlsbad, CA in the summer of 2013.

Tyler Bishop, CMO

Tyler is an award-winning marketer that was featured on the cover of the September 15′ STL Biz Journal for his unique approaches to digital marketing and was included in the publications 30 Under 30 the same year. Tyler is currently a 2019 member of the Forbes Communication Council, the host of Pubtelligence (digital publishing events held at Google offices around the world). Considered a digital publishing industry influencer and “professional expert” by his peers, Tyler has had articles featured in some of the world’s top publications regarding marketing, business, psychology, and even pop culture. He’s served as a marketing expert for startup boards and has been Ezoic’s head of marketing since late 2016.

Mike McGuire, Geschäftsführer

Mike joined Ezoic in April 2013 after serving as an officer in the Royal Navy, reaching the rank of Commander. No stranger to technology, he employed, maintained, and developed state-of-the-art weapons, sensors, and computers. Primarily operations-focused, with tours in the Gulf, Balkans, Iraq, and on the recent NATO Libya operation, he commanded a squadron of fast patrol boats in Gibraltar conducting anti-terrorist patrols. When not on operations, he served as a defense diplomat in Germany, Canada, and Italy.

Originally from Manchester, he is a Manchester City fan—yup, there are two soccer teams from Manchester—and now lives with his wife, Jacqui, and rescue hound, Pickle, in the beautiful North East of England, where Ezoic has offices with great views of the River Tyne and the North Sea.