Rich Kahn

Rich Kahn, born in the Bronx in 1972, is an American business executive and currently the CEO of advertising technology company eZanga.com.

Professional

Kahn is recognized as a security expert and one of the more notable search engine marketing gurus ^[1] in the advertising industry. He is the CEO of eZanga.com, an online advertising services company that was founded with his wife. He spearheaded the in-house development of Traffic Advisors, eZanga’s click fraud filtration platform.

In 2010, Kahn received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology industry for the greater Philadelphia area ^[2] and was a finalist in the American Business Awards for Best Executive of the Year.^[3] In 2011, Kahn was featured in the Smart 100 book as a Smart100 CEO.

Kahn got his start in business in 1993, on the cusp of the dot-com bubble, when he organized and wrote an e-magazine that led to his next endeavor, the First Street Corporation,^[4] an Internet Service Provider that he later sold to a publicly traded organization.

In 1999, he co-founded Paid for Surf, which reached $1 million in revenue in its first five months of operation. Two years later, Kahn joined advertising network AdOrigin as its COO.^[5] Kahn also has held positions with business stalwarts such as Verizon Wireless and Bloomberg. He has been quoted in several major publications such as Inc. Magazine, MarketingProfs ^[6] Direct Marketing News, Adotas, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, SmartCEO Magazine, Wired Magazine ^[7]) and Crain’s New York Business, and has appeared on CNN.^[8]

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