29 December 2015 1-PAGE ACQUIRES INNOVATIVE DATA SCIENCE COMPANY...

29 December 2015
1-PAGE ACQUIRES INNOVATIVE DATA SCIENCE COMPANY
● 1-Page acquires Marianas Labs, an innovator in large scale data processing, data
science and machine learning
● The acquisition significantly boosts 1-Page’s data-driven capabilities across its
products, and further extends the Company’s revenue potential
● Marianas Labs world-class team to join 1-Page, including a former Yahoo! CTO, a
Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon
University, a former engineering lead at Baidu, and a former Yahoo! and Microsoft
engineer.
1-Page Limited (ASX:1PG) (“1-Page” or the “Company”), the enterprise cloud-based
talent acquisition platform is pleased to advise it has finalised the acquisition of
Marianas Labs - an innovator in large scale data processing and analysis.
CEO and Managing Director of 1-Page, Joanna Weidenmiller, said: “the acquisition will
transform 1-Page’s ability to process prospective candidate data at scale, and will
impact all current offerings.”
“The combination of Marianas Labs data, technology and talent will deliver step-change
innovation to the core technologies employed across all of our products. We anticipate
that this will accelerate our ability to deliver numerous product features and
enhancements. ”
Marianas Labs brings considerable intellectual property to 1-Page, alongside a team of
recognised data science experts, collectively with over 100 years of experience
developing artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analysis systems.
“We at Marianas Labs are excited about the opportunity of applying our IP and toolkits
to 1-Page’s large database of prospective talent, in order to deliver the right recruiting
and HR solutions to large enterprise clients,” said Alex Smola, CEO of Marianas Labs.

Marianas Labs Capabilities and Team
Marianas Labs’ suite of algorithms will reduce 1-Page’s cost of data processing and
analysis. The team has developed algorithms that can sample interactions and derive
inferences from hundreds of data sources across the public web, in significantly
reduced timelines.
Marianas Labs brings to 1-Page a deep learning platform, that will be integrated across
the company’s products. The Marianas Labs platform will further establish 1-Page as a
leading candidate intelligence and hiring technology company in the industry.
As a part of the Marianas Labs acquisition, the following team will join 1-Page:
Ashfaq Munshi joins 1-Page as Chief Product and Technology Officer.
Mr Munshi has been the CEO of several private and public companies, and has also
served on both private and public boards. His expertise runs the gamut of startups,
public companies, spin-outs, take-privates and acquisitions. Most recently Mr Munshi
sold Graphite Systems, a “flash as memory” company, to EMC. He was the CTO of
Yahoo! and has also been a research staff member at IBM Research.
His technical expertise includes building silicon, systems, operating systems, compilers,
databases, user interfaces, mobile analytics and large-scale analytics systems.
Mr Munshi received his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics at Harvard
University, was a PhD graduate student at Brown University, and is an alumnus of the
Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Alexander Smola joins 1-Page as Head of Data Science.
He has over 20 years experience in machine learning and data analysis, and is
recognized as one of the top researchers in the field worldwide. Currently a professor
in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr Smola has
published over 200 papers and five books that have been cited over 60,000 times.
Prior to Carnegie Mellon University, he developed data product technologies at
Google, at Yahoo!, at UC Berkeley, at NICTA (National Institute of Computer
Technology Australia), at the Australian National University, GMD, and AT&T.
Mu Li joins 1-Page as a Data Scientist and Architect.
Mr Li has published over 10 top conference papers ranging from theory to machine
learning to systems. He has also worked as a principal architect at Baidu, China’s
leading search engine, on computational advertising and deep learning systems.
Kamran Munshi joins 1-Page as an Engineer.
Mr Munshi is a Masters graduate of Cornell University, and most recently worked at
Yahoo! building the company’s mobile native advertising platform. He built and ran his
first company at 16 that is profitable and running today.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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