Alan Waldman is Leaf Group's Executive Vice President, Product & Technology, for the company's marketplace properties. In this role, Alan oversees strategy and execution for the product and engineering teams for Society6 and Saatchi Art. Prior to joining Leaf Group, Alan served as VP of Product for Metacloud, a Cisco acquired company, where he focused on accelerating cloud revenue and brought one of Cisco's first infrastructure SaaS offerings to market. Alan started his career in Technical Operations at Citysearch where he honed his leadership and management skills. He spent nine years at Ticketmaster in various technology leadership roles, eventually serving as Senior Vice President of Technical Operations where he was a key stakeholder in the company's transformation into a global ecommerce business. In his time at Ticketmaster, Alan led an international team of hundreds and managed the company’s global technology infrastructure. Alan embodies an entrepreneurial spirit, from being an early stage startup CTO to founding a number of startups throughout his career. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from UC Santa Barbara.