North American Management Team

Entrepreneur at heart, Thomas founded his first successful company during high school. While pursuing a degree in business administration he built Falk GmbH and later the Falk eSolutions AG, which was founded in 1998. This company quickly developed into the most sought-after supplier of ASP-solutions for online-marketing.

With Falk eSolutions Thomas showed how to successfully manage rapid growth and implemented an early internationalization strategy resulting in his company being present in Europe, the US and Asia. In 2006 Thomas sold his company to DoubleClick, where he gaines further international management experience as President EMEA and built up a reliable and strong international business network.

When DoubleClick was acquired by Google, Falk left to follow his entrepreneurial passion again. He clearly saw that advertising would remain the biggest revenue source for online content and thus founded his venture capital firm eValue in 2006.

Founding member and COO, Jay Drago, launched smartclip LLC in September of 2009 after 12 years in the online advertising space.  Prior to launching smartclip, he was co-founder & CEO of ad network, JOGO Media, where he delivered technology & sales solutions to the emerging in-game advertising space.

Mr Drago has an extensive background in advertising technologies & operations  and was previously the co-founder and GM of the AdServing company, Falk North America. During his tenure, he helped facilitate the sale of Falk N.A. to ad serving industry leader, Doubleclick inc.

Mr. Drago originally started his career in interactive advertising as the Director of Ad Operations for Katz- Millennium Marketing. During his tenure at Katz, he helped facilitate the merger of 2 other entities to form 24/7 Media, where for 4 years, he served as Vice President of Operations.

Seth Ingram, Vice President of Sales, began his sales endeavors with smartclip in November 2009.

Prior to joining smartclip, Mr. Ingram spent nearly a decade in online ad sales, serving in a variety of roles at UGO Entertainment, a unit of Hearst Corporation. Mr. Ingram quickly gained momentum as a Senior Account Executive and was promoted to Vice President, Eastern Region, where he managed sales and collaborated directly with the CEO to craft the company sales presentation and strategy.

Mr. Ingram took over the emerging International Sales efforts, directed the launch of the UGO UK website, and established profitable businesses across the globe in Australia and Canada. Mr. Ingram began his career in sales at Fox/Liberty Networks. Prior to that, he received his BA from Tufts University.

Vice President of Business Development, Brian Kupchik came to smartclip in October 2009.   After spending over ten years in the online industry, Mr. Kupchik has the experience to create strategic partnerships among advertisers and publishers.

Prior to joining smartclip, Mr. Kupchik spent three years at Broadband Enterprises, where he acted as Director of Sales, VP of Sales and most recently, VP of the Publisher Network.  While at Broadband, Mr. Kupchik was directly responsible for building out the company’s video network of publishers.

Over the last decade, Mr. Kupchik has managed sales territories and built out expert teams for companies such as CarDomain, Walt Disney Internet Group, and the UGO Network.