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Type of business
  
Key people
  
Revenue
  
209.9 million USD (2014)

Area served
  
Worldwide

CEO
  
Robert P. Locascio

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Traded as
  
NASDAQ: LPSNS&P 600 ComponentTASE: LPSN

Founded
  
1995; 22 years ago (1995)

No. of locations
  
London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Atlanta, Tokyo, Melbourne, Mannheim, Amsterdam, Milan

Stock price
  
LPSN (NASDAQ) US$ 6.60 -0.15 (-2.22%)22 Mar, 4:00 PM GMT-4 - Disclaimer

Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

Subsidiaries
  
Kasamba Inc, HumanClick Ltd

Profiles

LivePerson is a publicly held American technology company that develops products for online messaging, marketing, and analytics.

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Headquartered in New York City, LivePerson is best known as the developer of LiveEngage- a messaging platform that allows companies to talk with visitors in real time on websites, mobile, and social networks.

History

LivePerson was founded in 1995 by Robert LoCascio after a disastrous customer service experience online. In April 2000, the company completed an initial public offering on the NASDAQ, in March 2011 its shares started trading also on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and are included in the TA-100 Index and the TA BlueTech Index.

Since its founding, LivePerson has expanded to include offices in London and Reading, England; Tel Aviv, Israel; Melbourne, Australia; Alpharetta, Georgia; Mannheim and Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Milan, Italy; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan.

LivePerson provides a web based engagement service, also referred to as click to chat.

Leadership team

  • Robert LoCascio, Founder and CEO
  • Daniel Murphy, CFO
  • Eran Vanounou, CTO and GM, Technology Operations - Israel
  • Monica Greenberg, SVP, Business Affairs and General Counsel
  • Dustin Dean, EVP Sales and Customer Success
  • Products and services

  • LiveEngage — A cloud-based method of customer messaging using Predictive Intelligent Targeting. Business can communicate with customers on web, mobile, and social.
  • LP Insights — Turns customers' chat transcripts into structured and unstructured data to provide actionable insights.
  • References

    LivePerson Wikipedia