Ancestry.com Management Team
Meet the Ancestry.com management team.
Tim Sullivan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Timothy Sullivan has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since September 2005. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sullivan was Chief Operating Officer and then President and CEO of Match.com from January 2001 to September 2004. From May 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Sullivan served as Vice President of E-commerce for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. From June 1991 to May 1999, Mr. Sullivan held multiple positions at The Walt Disney Company, including Vice President and Managing Director of Buena Vista Home Entertainment Asia Pacific from July 1997 to May 1999. Mr. Sullivan holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Howard Hochhauser
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Howard Hochhauser has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer since February 2012. He joined the Company in January 2009 as Chief Financial Officer. From May 2000 to December 2008, Mr. Hochhauser held multiple positions at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., most recently serving as Chief Financial Officer from March 2006 to December 2008. He held multiple positions at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. from September 1996 to May 2000, serving most recently as Vice President Equity Research Analyst. Prior to joining Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., he worked at First Boston and he was a Staff Accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Hochhauser is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Boston University.
William Stern
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
William Stern has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since July 2009. From October 2005 to July 2009, Mr. Stern held multiple positions at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., most recently serving as the General Counsel and Secretary from September 2008 to July 2009. From October 2002 to September 2005, Mr. Stern was a Principal at Fish & Richardson, PC. Prior to joining Fish & Richardson, PC, he was a Partner at Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Mr. Stern holds an M.B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Chicago and an A.B. from Brown University.
Eric Shoup
Executive Vice President of Product
Eric Shoup has served as our Executive Vice President of Product since February 2012. He joined the Company in August 2008 as Vice President of Product. Prior to joining us, Mr. Shoup was at eBay for over five years, where he largely focused on growing its eBay Stores product and ProStores business unit. In addition, he assembled and led eBay's global mobile product team. Prior to eBay, Mr. Shoup was a Director of Product Management at Commerce One, a leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. Previously, he worked at US Interactive designing and managing consumer e-commerce and marketing Web sites for established companies such as Lexus and Wellcome Supermarkets (Hong Kong). Mr. Shoup holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ken Chahine
Senior Vice President and General Manager, DNA
Ken Chahine has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Ancestry DNA, LLC since 2011. Prior to joining us he held several positions, including as Chief Executive Officer of Avigen, a biotechnology company, in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, and at Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals (currently Pfizer). Mr. Chahine also teaches a course focused on new venture development, intellectual property, and licensing at the University of Utah’s College of Law. He earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law, and a B.A. in Chemistry from Florida State University.
Olivier Van Calster
Senior Vice President of International
Olivier Van Calster has served as our Senior Vice President of International since September 2012, having joined in 2008 as Managing Director in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Ancestry, Mr. Van Calster spent four years at eBay, where he was most recently responsible for UK Marketing, PR, Advertising Sales and eBay Ireland. Before eBay, Olivier held several commercial, product and corporate development roles at media group Pearson (Financial Times, The Economist, Penguin Putnam, Prentice Hall). He started his career as a management consultant with Arthur D Little. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an M.A. in Economics, both from UCL, Belgium.
Scott Sorensen
Chief Technology Officer
Scott Sorensen has served as our Chief Technology Officer since April 2013. Mr. Sorensen has been at Ancestry.com since June 2002 and has held multiple positions including Senior Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of Search and Vice President of Commerce. Prior to joining Ancestry.com, Mr. Sorensen was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering and then President at Coresoft Technologies. Mr. Sorensen was an engineering manager at WordPerfect / Novell and a software engineer at IBM. He holds a B.S in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Rob Singer
Senior Vice President of U.S. Marketing
Rob Singer has served as our Senior Vice President of U.S. Marketing since November of 2012, having joined the organization in November 2010 as Global Vice President of Customer Relationship Management. Prior to joining Ancestry.com, Mr. Singer was the Senior Vice President of Customer Relationship Management at Bank of the West from February 2009 to November 2010. From July 2005 to February 2009, Mr. Singer was the head of Customer Intelligence and Relationship Marketing at StubHub, an eBay Company. Prior to joining StubHub, he held senior-level database marketing and business intelligence positions at Yates Advertising, YellowBrick Solutions, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., and KnowledgeBase Marketing. Mr. Singer has a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics from James Madison University.