Nope he’s still there, though there may be several Yaels. Yael runs the show there all right, he just doesn’t show up.
As for crossing personnel, what I meant is that a lot of the staff circulate among these companies. They are competitors but they recruit from one another, so I’ve experienced the same manager who gets fired from Cpartners go to cpays, then quits then ends up at IOG and then ending up at Tradal. All at the same time passing affiliate info and intelligence along.
Tradal is a partner there though with today’s announcement of PartyGaming acquiring EOL this may no longer be the case.
The biggest problem with the Israeli firms is that “confidential” information from one company tends to easily move on the the next company and that b/c the staff move around, their unscrupulous practices tend to also circulate. These employees have base salaries that are not high (about $1-$1.5K/mo) so they need to make it up in incentive bonuses and this means that stolen data and unscrupulous business practices are encouraged. These same employees are also affiliate marketers on the side for other companies in the industry – all fuelled by stolen data caused by low salaries.
I can’t say the people who work there are bad, after all my colleague we recruited used to work there, it’s just that the environment there breeds a certain type and it’s highly encouraged by their management.
One thing I forgot to mention is how they do their spamming and hacking. In Israel there are many Russian immigrants, Cpays hires a division of Russian hackers/spammers who are PhD level – the best around. Their only job is to figure out (at $1k / mo) how to blackhat and compete with affiliates. It’s starting to be common practice with the Israeli marketing agencies.