Bob Rosenschein

Bob Rosenschein
Born Robert Rosenschein
5 June 1953
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality Israel
Occupation Businessman
Known for Founder of Answers.com

Robert S. "Bob" Rosenschein is an American-Israeli internet entrepreneur. His latest startup is Curiyo.[1] He is the founder and was Chairman and CEO of Answers.com, formerly GuruNet,[2] until May 2011, when it was bought by Summit Partner's AFCV Holdings for $127 million.

Early life and career

Rosenschein was born to Jewish parents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In his early career Rosenschein worked for Data General, American Management Systems, the World Bank, and Ashton-Tate. He moved to Israel in 1983, where he worked as a software consultant.[3]

In 1988 Rosenschein and his brother, Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein, founded Kivun Hadash,[4] later Accent Software. Its initial product was Dagesh, the first Hebrew/English word processor for Windows. From 1991-1992, the company consulted to Microsoft, helping design and develop Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows 3.1. The company went on to develop multi-lingual software tools under the Accent brand.[5] For the Hebrew Windows and Dagesh projects, Rosenschein was awarded the Prime Minister of Israel's Award for Software Achievement in 1997.[6]

In 1999, Rosenschein founded GuruNet with Mort Meyerson and Mark Tebbe, which created a 1-click popup Internet-based information utility.[7] The product later became Answers.com, incorporating both editorial reference and user-generated Q&A information. The company was listed on NASDAQ as Answers Corporation from 13 October 2004 until 14 April 2011, when it was purchased and taken private by AFCV Holdings.

In 2009, Rosenschein was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award Finalist in the Metropolitan New York region.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Mossberg, Walt (September 10, 2013). "A Valuable Tool for Web Browsing". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ↑ "Executive Profile - Robert S. Rosenschein". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Interview with Bob Rosenschein, CEO of Answers.com". 13 July 2006. Retrieved August 2013.
  4. ↑ CrunchBase | Kivun Hadash
  5. ↑ Peter Ford (20 January 1994). "Israeli Firm's Software Program Makes Computing Global". The Christian Science Monitor.
  6. ↑ "Robert S. Rosenschein". CrunchBase. Retrieved August 2013.
  7. ↑ "San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Dan Gillmor Column". Gillmor, Dan. HighBeam Research. 5 September 1999.

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