about us

Working Planet Marketing Group

Working Planet Marketing Group was founded in 2003 by industry professionals to provide the best professional Pay-Per-Click management service possible to meet the profitability goals of our clients. With a background in both Web marketing and quantitative modeling, our founders have worked on web-based business solutions with hundreds of companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 firms.

Since our founding we have helped companies from all business segments across North America achieve profitable, measureable returns from this competitive, but effective, form of Internet Marketing.

Management Team

Soren Ryherd - President, Co-Founder

Soren began as a research scientist developing quantitative models for the analysis of satellite imagery. A NASA Graduate Research Fellow, Soren worked with the Advanced Algorithm Development Group at Goddard Space Flight Center and was the recipient of a WM Keck Foundation fellowship, as well as an ERDAS Award for Best Research by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. After leaving academia in 1995, Soren was a General Manager at Internet startup Cybersmith, head of sales and client relations at Beacon Learning/UTU and worked as a consultant on Intranet development for large financial institutions. Prior to co-founding Working Planet Marketing Group in 2003, Soren was head of sales and marketing for Miller Systems, an Inc 500 and Deloitte & Touche New England Fast 50 web technology firm.

Vida Jakabhazy - Vice President of Operations, Co-founder
Vida also began as a research scientist developing data processing algorithms for satellite data, working on projects for the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Air Force, and the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization. After graduate work at Boston University and six years at Cambridge MA think tank Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Vida worked with several medical-focused Internet startups on Web strategy, interface design, and systems development. Vida oversees operations, internal systems development and PPC partner relations for Working Planet Marketing Group.

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