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Paul Tyma Is LendingTree Chief Technology Officer

LendingTree has appointed Paul Tyma Chief Technology Officer of the company. Dr. Tyma received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, focusing on Java and .NET performance, and has built and run engineering teams at LinkedIn and Morgan Stanley, along with his own companies. He also spent three years at Google as an engineer working on internal server development.

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