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Vantage Media Expands Team

El Segundo-based Vantage Media, which provides search marketing and other marketing services, said this week that it has hired on three new executives. Vantage Media said that it has appointed Neil Kaplan as Senior Vice President of Operations, Greg Isaacs as Vice President Incubation, and Sumant Sridaran as Vice President of Marketing. Kaplan has previously served at Internet Brands, Universal Studios, The Los Angeles Times and Bain and Company. Isaacs joins from LeadPoint, and also served at eBay, among other firms. Finally, Sridharan joins Vantage Media from Oversee.net, where he was general manager of the firm's travel and social networking business. Vantage Media is backed by Montgomery & Co., Scale Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Integral Capital Partners. Vantage Media last raised a round of venture funding in February of 2007, worth $70M.