T.R.A.F.F.I.C. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
AMMAR KUBBA
Principal & CEO
Thought Convergence, Inc.
Ammar Kubba is a principal and the Chief Executive Officer of Thought Convergence, Inc., whose various portfolio companies include TrafficZ, one of the industry's oldest and most experienced domain parking and traffic monetization services; Aftermarket.com, a leading Internet domain name marketplace and brokerage service; and DomainTools, the world’s most comprehensive and powerful set of domain name and DNS research tools and services. Ammar is a leading authority on Internet domain name acquisition, development, valuation, and sales, and traffic monetization, as well as an active proponent for the continuing advancement and evolution of the domain name industry. His determination, passion, and vision have helped propel Thought Convergence to the forefront of the space, while the Company's cutting-edge proprietary technology and unparalleled services have garnered the attention and praise of the most influential players in the domain community, as well as several of the world's leading Internet companies.
Ammar, a serial entrepreneur, business advisor, and angel investor, has been integrally involved in the acquisition, development, and/or sale of such high-profile Internet properties as Beer.com, LA.com, Hawaii.com, BusinessDevelopment.com, Trainer.com, Coed.com, ContactUs.com, Meet.Me, and countless others. He has been interviewed for and featured in Business 2.0, The Wall Street Journal Online, BusinessWeek, UCLA Magazine, the DN Journal, Modern Domainer, and myriad other media outlets and industry publications. Ammar also enjoys sharing some of his personal insights on his blog at www.afterthought.com.
Prior to joining Thought Convergence, Ammar honed his legal, entrepreneurial, and business development acumen as in-house counsel for two public companies in the technology sector. He has counseled countless private and public clients, ranging in status from the Pink Sheets to NASDAQ, and has been intimately involved in dozens of public offerings and mergers and acquisition transactions, both domestic and international. Ammar holds a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was a writer and editor for the school's Law Review journal, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles.
