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Adlucent, At A Glance

What We Do

Adlucent uses predictive technology and custom optimization algorithms to continuously improve search marketing performance for the world’s eCommerce leaders.

Success Stories

Adlucent works closely with its clients to grow their search marketing programs. Hear what they have to say and learn how we’ve put search to work for online retail.

Why We Do It

Adlucent is a culture of innovation and excellence. We thrive when solving problems and are in constant pursuit of success for our clients, our team and ourselves as individuals.

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adlucent is a Culture of Innovation and Excellence.

Adlucent is a collaborative team of creative and motivated intellectuals with a passion to be the best. It is a place where new ideas and individuality are encouraged and challenges are embraced. This openness of thought is manifested in a cubicle-free workspace, a liberal dress code, flexible schedules and daily huddles where the entire company meets to share goals, progress, difficulties and discoveries. At Adlucent, even success is shared, which encourages each person to contribute to the happiness of our clients, the health of the company and their own personal growth.

Our Story

Adlucent’s evolution is one of passion, hard-work and discovering opportunity. It all began twelve years ago when founder Michael Griffin began to share his love of coffee and chemistry with the world through his Web site CoffeeResearch.org. The site became the world’s largest educational site about coffee and was his playground for testing new theories of driving traffic on the Web.

After launching CoffeeResearch.org, Michael pursued a PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Texas studying pattern recognition for medical diagnostics. As an ever passionate early-adopter, Michael began experimenting with the newly launched Google Adwords and started testing theories of consumer buying behavior online. Michael grew frustrated with the lack of relevance with paid search results and realized an opportunity to apply his passion for analytics to improving the quality of advertising on the Web.

While continuing his doctorate Michael pioneered a new approach to SKU-level marketing on the Web. He began working with a large online retailer to grow their paid search business by over 300% year-over-year. Understanding the opportunity for strong growth, Michael turned to Nicholas Herman, a longtime friend and expert in advertising and design to help take his passion and turn it into a viable business.

After hundreds of cups of coffee and many sleepless nights, Adlucent was launched from Michael’s college apartment. Bootstrapping our way to success with a strong eye towards the future, Michael and Nicholas slowly recruited top talent from around Austin to drive towards the dream of making online advertising the most effective and efficient vehicle for driving revenue and customer acquisition on the Web.

Over the last five years, Adlucent has grown tremendously, becoming the fastest growing technology company in Austin and the 73rd fastest growing private company nationally on the Inc 500 list. With a sharp focus on driving revenue growth for some of the world’s most successful online retailers, Adlucent has invested heavily in the development of differentiated technology to maximize the efficiency of online advertising.

Today, Adlucent is made up of a team of innovators asking the question “How do we drive towards 100% efficiency.” And everyday we find achievement in solving a little piece of this puzzle.

Our Culture

When asked to define our culture we turned to what we know best: collecting and analyzing data. In our exercise, each team member was given a blank canvas to describe “Adlucent, in your eyes.” The response was remarkable and many common themes emerged to express our company.

  • “Openness”
  • “Collaboration”
  • “Determination”
  • “Exploration”
  • “Innovation”
  • “Excellence”

Some quotes from the exercise:

“It is cool to work somewhere cool, with cool people in cool environs, with cool technology applied to cool visions. Not cool for style’s sake, but cool for substance’s sake. Cool not for how we look, but cool for what we achieve. We continue to set the coolness bar high, for the horizons of our cool are limitless.” — Tim “Rock” Ozor

“Win, and have fun doing it!” — Moses Chang

“Nurturing. Inclusive. Inspirational. Ground-Breaking. Relaxed. Rewarding. Educational. Fun. Cutting-Edge. Dynamic. Progressive. Organic. Collaborative. Creative. Intellectual.” — Brandon Durham

“Adlucent’s culture is passion. Passion to be the best. Passion to have the best customers and to give those customers the best results possible...” — Dale Smith

“Adlucent is a community of innovation. From the senior leaders to the account managers and interns, ideas are encouraged, shared, and valued.” — Jake Stewart

Leadership Team

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Jon Armstrong
Chief Executive Officer

Jon brings over 20 years of strategy development, consulting and operating experience to Adlucent where he serves as Chief Executive Officer.

Armstrong has responsibility for guiding the company's strategy and managing day-to-day operations, finance and client management to support Adlucent's growth.

Jon was previously a Partner and Senior Executive at Accenture where he focused on developing and implementing business strategies enabled by technology solutions to drive sustainable growth. Jon was a lead Partner in North America running the Commercial Banking and Corporate Payments/Cash Management practice where he helped banks innovate to support the CFO organizations of large corporates, commercial and small businesses. He has also been a strategy consultant for Treasury Strategies, COO of Tribeza, and VP of services at Contextual, a venture-backed CRM software company. In these roles, Jon has helped shape organizational structure to deliver business results for multi-national corporations like Bank of America, as well as start-up and small businesses.

Jon is an active member of the Bootstrap Network, a global entrepreneur support network with local chapters in over 15 cities worldwide, where he leads the Bootstrap Austin Growth group. Jon is a Certified Cash Manager and Treasury Professional. He received a BBA in Finance from Oklahoma University and an MBA from the Neeley School at Texas Christian University.

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Michael Griffin
Chief Technology Officer & Founder

As the founder of Adlucent, Michael brings over 8 years of experience in strategic search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization, landing page design, and bid optimization. Michael is a leading thinker and innovator in SEM, and drives the product and technology strategy for Adlucent.

His novel ways of applying technology, algorithms and analytics to the opportunities in SEM has allowed Adlucent to deliver market-leading return on ad spend to clients. Michael has developed unique technology patterns to support the implementation of comprehensive online marketing strategies which streamline and optimize the process from search to conversion, thus maximizing clients' return on investment.

Michael is frequently tapped as an expert on the strategies that foster high converting online traffic to drive successful e-commerce. An active member of SEMPO, Shop.org, and the Austin IAB, Michael's work has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, TechCrunch and Clear Channel Radio. Michael has served a broad range of clients including Fortune 500 Internet retailers, International non-profits, and political lobby groups.

Michael is also the co-founder of PriceFight.com, a pay-for-performance shopping search engine. Prior to founding Adlucent, Michael attended University of Texas at Austin pursuing a PhD in analytical chemistry where his thesis focused on advanced analytics for medical diagnostics. Michael is the recipient of the prestigious Watson Fellowship and received his BS degree from Davidson College.

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Nicholas Herman
Co-founder and Search Marketing Director

Nicholas co-founded Adlucent and serves in the role of Search Marketing Director. Nick is a leading online marketing strategist who has been instrumental in driving significant growth with internet retailers for many years. Nick is also highly devoted to creating a close-knit, and collaborative company culture and serves as the Chief Culturalist for Adlucent.

With a strong aptitude in advertising, buying behavior and web development, Nicholas has an uncanny ability to combine highly optimized search marketing campaigns with strong landing page design to deliver market-leading click-through and conversion rates. He serves Adlucent’s largest accounts including leading global, e-retailers. Nick is also a leading thinker on how to apply technology to search marketing and has helped drive the vision and implementation of Adlucent’s Deep Searchâ„¢ technology. Nick’s efforts have helped Adlucent remain self-funded while growing over 1900% over the past three years

Nicholas was also a lead developer and co-founder of PriceFight.com. Nicholas graduated summa cum laude, with highest honors, from the University of Texas with a bachelor of science in both advertising and architectural studies. In addition to his passion for helping clients win, Nick loves music and is sometimes seen as DJ Silverhero in Austin music venues.

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Ashwani Dhar
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Ashwani brings over 20 years of sales, marketing, and business development experience to Adlucent. Dhar has been responsible for revenue generation, market positioning and the ultimate business success for companies like Iconixx, Agea and Trilogy. Specifically, at Trilogy, Ashwani played several leadership roles in launching and building the financial services business unit that grew to over $50m in three years.

Ashwani also founded and managed DC International, an international consulting company that focused on the emerging markets of Latin America emphasizing the strategic management of information technology for clients like BankBoston, Andersen Consulting and YPF. Ashwani began his career in strategic consulting for Healthcare clients with APM and delivering high value technology solutions with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Ashwani has particular expertise in financial services, enterprise software and entertainment specifically gaming. Most recently, Dhar has been on the Board of Directors for Bigfoot Networks, Robot Genius, & Perception Software through investments from his venture capital firm Venio Capital Partners.

Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in the Management & Technology program, Ashwani earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the Moore School. Additionally, he obtained an MBA from Harvard University.

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Tim Ozor
Vice President of Engineering

Tim has over 20 years experience designing and developing enterprise and Web 2.0 software applications. Tim leads all technology development and operations in the role of VP of Engineering. Tim’s responsibilities also include all data integration and analytics utilized by Adlucent.

Since joining Adlucent, Ozor has driven the development of Adlucent’s leading edge Web 2.0 Deep Search application and analytics platform which is being utilized to effectively and efficiently manage millions of keywords for large search marketing campaigns for the largest online retailers with millions of products.

Tim’s body of work includes Unix operating system development, object oriented middleware design and large scale Web application architecture. Ozor was instrumental in the development of Austin-based Vignette’s ground-breaking content management system which served as the core product for Vignette through its IPO and eventual sale to Open Text. Tim was one of the first developers on board at Vignette and was employee 15 at what came to be one of the most successful IPOs in the Austin high-tech industry. Prior to Adlucent, Ozor led the design and development of the highly acclaimed National Transcript Center, which provides a secure electronic trading system for the exchange of student transcripts.

Tim received his BS degree in Computer Science from Clemson University in 1986, and has been committed to achieving higher and higher levels of software mastery ever since. When he is not building industrial strength software, Tim enjoys windsurfing, rock music, and maintaining the lowest carbon footprint and body fat levels.

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“Adlucent is the most innovative search agency we’ve ever worked with. They delivered exceptional results that other agencies couldn’t achieve.”

— Jeff Wisot, Buy.com VP of Marketing

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