Mr. Jonathan Gifford, Jon is a Co- Founder of Loggly, Inc. and serves as its Chief Search Officer. Mr. Gifford served as Chief Technology Officer at Loggly, Inc. Mr. Gifford was a Co-founder of Minimal Loop, and consults for a number of Internet companies, primarily on Search products. In the past, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Scout Labs, and co-Architect of the search platform, an Architect for the Technorati search platform, a high performance near-real-time blog search engine, a Director of Search, Principal Architect, and Director of Technology (Live!) at LookSmart Ltd. (3 of many roles). Most of his work at LookSmart was focussed around search, with some work on community based products, and other (non-search) core infrastructure. Mr. Gifford also served as an Architect for the crew scheduling systems at TPG in Melbourne, Australia, using LP optimization combined with an expert system to assign crews for several major airlines. He has over 10 years of search experience, over 20 years of software development experience, and has been playing with computers for nearly 30 years. Mr. Gifford holds a BSc (1st class honours) in Computer Science from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand, from 1982 to 1986), and has an incomplete MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Melbourne (Australia, from 1991 to 1992).