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Short Bio

Miten is VP of Product Strategy at Quova, enabling some of the largest web companies understand “where” their users come from. Before Quova, Miten was Chief Architect & CTO at Feeva where he developed technology to enable ISP’s to provide metadata for targeted online advertising in a privacy friendly manner.

Prior to Feeva, Miten co-founded & led the SeeVT project at the Center for HCI at Virginia Tech that conducted R&D on handheld location based systems, and developed one of the early implementations of Wifi(R) location sensing. Miten also worked at Reliance Communications in India to design, develop, and introduce value-added local services to mobile consumers in India. 

He has a BS & MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, where he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year.

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Additional Info

Here is a list of my Research Publications

Recent Conference Panels & Press

  • Article on What can ‘where’ do for you in Campaign India from my talk at Ad-Tech 2012 in New Delhi 
  • Benefits of Geo-location in Marketing - Forbes.com on November 7, 2011, Co-authored with Steven Cook

  • GeoLoco 2011 - November 3, 2011 
    Panel: API overload: Making $$$$ and Sense with Data, Context, and Infrastructure

  • Digital Hollywood - (October 17-20, 2011)
    Panel - Advertising Innovation! Ad Targeting and Hypertargeting, In-Video, In-Game, Social Networks and Blogs)

  • SMX East 2011 - (upcoming on Sept 13-15, 2011)
    Panel - There Is No “National” Commerce: All Sales Are Local

  • Data 2.0 2011 (Panel - The Advertising Equation)
    http://livestre.am/H2rw

  • Article by Dev Khare (Venrock) - quoting some ideas around building a “data business”

  • Concept of “data narrative” as I described at Data 2.0 conference (short blurb)
    http://data2con.com/2011/03/31/social-data-or-making-data-social/

  • Privacy, Identity, and Innovation - 2011
    (Panel - Can you locate now?)

  • Reuters interview regarding Feeva 

  • Canadian Tech Policy Blog by Chris Parsons - privacy, ISP based advertising, and Feeva

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