Management Team

Scott Garell
President, Ask Networks
Doug Leeds
President, Ask.com-U.S
Edward Ferguson
SVP, General Counsel
Apostolos Gerasoulis
EVP, Search Technology
Tomasz Imielinski
EVP, Technology
Scott Kim
Chief Technology Officer
Andrew Moers
President, Ask.com Partner Network
James Speer
President, Advertising Networks

Scott Garell
President, Ask Networks

In May 2009, Scott Garell was named President, Ask Networks, which includes Ask.com, Ask Partner Network, Ask Sponsored Listings, and Dictionary.com. In this role, Garell manages the global and daily business operations for the Ask Network of sites, including Ask.com worldwide.In January 2008, Garell was named President, Ask.com.

Prior to his positions at Ask.com, Garell was the CEO of IAC Consumer Applications & Portals, now called Mindspark. Under his leadership the Consumer Applications and Portals businesses (including Fun Web Products, Portals, Evite and Pronto) grew by 74% in 3 years to reach over $100M in annual revenue. Prior to his role as CEO of IAC Consumer Applications & Portals, Garell served as Executive Vice President of domestic sites and search, where he managed the division's destination sites (Ask.com, iWon, and My Way), as well as the optimization of its proprietary information retrieval technologies and products across all brands. Garell joined IAC Search & Media in April 2004 as Senior Vice President of Marketing. Formerly, Garell served in senior roles at ACCPAC, Citysearch and Clorox.

Garell holds an M.B.A from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley.

Doug Leeds
President, Ask.com-U.S.

As President, Ask.com-U.S., Leeds oversees strategy, product development, and technology for Ask.com in the U.S.

Previously, Leeds was Chief Operating Officer, Ask Network.

Before becoming COO, Leeds was President, Dictionary.com. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing all strategy and operations for Dictionary.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ask.com (acquired July 2008).

Prior to his role at Dictionary.com, Leeds served as the Chief Strategy officer for Ask.com. Before joining Ask.com, Leeds spent almost five years at Yahoo! (including Overture Services), most recently as vice president, Global Product Justice, where he led the development of reputational products and services as well as oversaw product policy and legal compliance for all of Yahoo!'s products and services worldwide.

Earlier in his career, Leeds held senior positions at mobile ISP OmniSky and mobile carrier Vodafone, and founded BootSpace, an advertising software start-up.

Leeds received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Edward Ferguson
SVP, General Counsel

Edward Ferguson joined Ask.com as SVP and General Counsel in February 2008. He also serves as VP and Associate General Counsel at Ask's parent company, IAC, which he joined in September 2002.

Prior to his role at Ask.com, Ferguson directed the New York office of Investigative Group International, a corporate investigations firm. From 1996 to 2000, he headed the New York City Business Integrity Commission, a government agency established to eliminate organized crime from various sectors of the City's economy. Previously, he practiced law in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, specializing in complex litigation, media law, and enforcement matters. From 1986 to 1992, Mr. Ferguson served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, specializing in appellate work and civil RICO prosecutions.

Ferguson received his B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Apostolos Gerasoulis
EVP, Search Technology

As executive vice president of search technology for Ask.com, Apostolos Gerasoulis consults with various parts of the search and answers technology groups.

Prior to Ask.com, Gerasoulis co-founded Teoma Technologies, Inc., an algorithmic search engine company. He served as Teoma's CTO, then as CEO, until the company was acquired by Ask.com in 2001. The integration of Teoma's algorithmic search technology into Ask.com was a critical component to ensuring the leading search engine continued to deliver world-class search products in an increasingly competitive sector.

Gerasoulis holds a Ph.D. from State University New York, Stony Brook and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University since 1979.

Tomasz Imielinski
EVP, Technology

As executive vice president of technology, Dr. Tomasz Imielinski is responsible for the Answers Technology that powers Ask.com's question and answer products that are built from structured and unstructured data, this includes Ask's Q&A channel. Imielinski joined Ask.com in 2004 as vice president of data solutions and was promoted to his current position in 2008.

Currently on leave, Imielinski has been a professor at Rutgers University since 1983. In addition, from 1996 until 2003, he served as chairman of the university's Computer Science department. Prior to joining Ask.com, Imielinski co-founded Connotate Technologies, Inc., a leader in data extraction from the Web and Enterprise.

Imielinski holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Polish Academy of Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Poland's Politechnic of Gdansk.

Scott Kim
Chief Technology Officer

As chief technology officer for Ask.com, Scott Kim is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the technology organization. This includes front-end Ask.com technologies, in addition to the core search and algorithmic technologies.

Kim has held roles across the technology organization, spanning Engineering, Operations, and Program Management. His roles have included responsibility for Ask.com, the Ask Partner Network, and the Bloglines technology teams. Previous to Ask, Scott worked as a software engineer at Loudcloud, acquired by Hewlett-Packard, currently named Opsware.

Kim received his B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Andrew Moers
President, Ask.com Partner Network

As president of the Ask.com partner network, Andrew Moers is responsible for strategic business development for Ask.com's syndication business across the companies' search, advertising and software products.

Prior to joining Ask.com in 2000, Moers was a Senior Associate at law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in New York, an international commercial law firm, focusing on private equity and leverage acquisition transactions. Prior to that, Moers was an Associate at the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago in the corporate department.

Moers received his B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Michigan School of Business Administration and his J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School.

James Speer
President, Advertising Networks

As president of advertising networks, James Speer is responsible for managing the company's portfolio of search marketing products including Ask Sponsored Listings and the Ask Publisher Network.

Speer previously served as VP of product management for AJinteractive, the former advertising solutions and sales division of Ask Jeeves. Prior to this role peer was director of product management for the enterprise software division of Ask Jeeves. In this position he oversaw the successful development and launch of products within the information retrieval product line.

Before joining Ask.com, Speer was an engagement manager at Accenture. In this capacity he managed high profile information technology projects for Hewlett Packard, Perkin-Elmer, Viking Freight, DHL Airways, and LSI Logic.

Speer received his B.S. from the University of the Pacific in Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing.