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Born
  
October 17, 1983 (age 33) (
1983-10-17
)
Haifa, Israel

Occupation
  
Chief Strategy Officer of Quixey

Alma mater
  
University of California, Santa Cruz

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Tomer Kagan (born October 17, 1983) is an Israeli American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of search startup Quixey.

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Early life

Kagan was born in Haifa, Israel, and moved to Sunnyvale, California with his family at age four. He holds a bachelor's degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from University of California, Santa Cruz, and paid his way through college by starting the T-shirt company Static Printing. While in college, he founded and led the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. After graduating, he also founded the branding company Your Logo Here.

Quixey

Kagan co-founded Quixey in 2009. He met his co-founder Liron Shapira, as well as many Quixey employees, through the Jewish youth organization BBYO, of which he is a "longstanding member". In 2011, Forbes Magazine named him one of their "30 under 30" in technology for Quixey's success. According to Kagan, his aim is for Quixey to compete directly with Google in the search market.

Activities

Kagan has spoken at the Mobile World Congress and World Economic Forum. He is a volunteer advisor for a chapter of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the fraternity branch of BBYO. Kagan is also a board member of and donor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an artificial intelligence nonprofit, and is a supporter of effective altruism. He identifies as a "futurist", and works with the National Science Foundation on emerging technologies.

References

Tomer Kagan Wikipedia