Jobvite Names Adam Hyder, Veteran Yahoo! Engineering Leader, as Chief Technology Officer

Jobvite, provider of next-generation recruitment solutions, today announced that Adam Hyder has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Hyder will lead all technology and engineering development, working with the executive team of this fast growing Software as a Service provider in the multi-billion dollar online recruiting market.

Hyder joins Jobvite directly from Yahoo!, where he most recently served as Senior Director of Engineering for the companyís Advertising Management Platform (AMP!), Yahoo!ís multi-billion dollar online adverting program. Previously, Hyder was CTO and Director of Engineering for Yahoo! HotJobs where he delivered innovative products that contributed to 100 percent revenue growth during his three years in the division.

Prior to Yahoo!, Hyder served as Senior Director of Engineering at TradeBeam Inc., a venture-funded software company that streamlined global trading processes for enterprises. Before TradeBeam, he was Co-founder, CTO and CEO of OneBuild, a B2B marketplace. Earlier in his career with Sun Microsystems, Hyder served as Architect and Staff Engineer at JavaSoft and SunLabs.

ìAdam Hyder is a results-oriented technology visionary and entrepreneur who will provide outstanding leadership to our engineering team and savvy strategic counsel on our executive team,î said Dan Finnigan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jobvite. ìHe brings extensive experience leading innovative development of online advertising platforms, search and matching technology, B2B SaaS platforms and consumer Internet services to his new role at Jobvite.

Jobvite has truly impressed me with its holistic approach to talent acquisition. Social networking is an integral part of today's hiring ecosystem and Jobvite has beautifully integrated this concept into its application to solve talent acquisition challenges in a way that is cost effective, simple and elegant for the user, said Adam Hyder, Chief Technology Officer of Jobvite. I am delighted to work with the exceptional team here to scale our business, catapult the innovation cycle and build value for customers with new social recruitment technologies.