Mike Ghaffary

Director of Business Development, Yelp
@newmike

Mike Ghaffary joined Yelp in October 2010 as the director of business development. Prior to Yelp, Ghaffary was the director of business development at TrialPay, where he led partnerships with Facebook and a variety of other companies. Before that, he was the cofounder and vice president of business development at Stitcher and vice president at Summit Partners. He is also cofounder of BarMax and previously worked at the Boston Consulting Group and MSC Software.

Ghaffary holds a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in political science from the University of Southern California, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

About Yelp

Yelp Inc. (http://www.yelp.com) connects people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have taken root in major metros across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Yelp had a monthly average of 71 million unique visitors in Q1 2012*. By the end of the same quarter, yelpers had written more than 27 million rich, local reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. Yelp's mobile applications were used on 6.3 million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis during Q1 2012. For more information, please visit http://www.yelp.com or send an email to press@yelp.com.
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