Qloo is a cultural AI company founded in 2012 by Alex Elias and Jay Alger. It specializes in using artificial intelligence to predict consumer preferences across a wide range of categories, including entertainment, fashion, food, travel, and more. Qloo helps businesses in industries like technology, entertainment, and retail by offering personalized recommendations and insights based on its vast database of anonymized consumer taste data.The company has raised a total of $74 million across multiple funding rounds. Key investors include Bluestone Equity Partners, AI Ventures, AXA Venture Partners, Eldridge Industries, and well-known individuals like Leonardo DiCaprio and Barry Sternlicht. Their technology supports companies like Netflix and Starbucks, helping them better understand and predict audience behaviors while adhering to privacy standards like GDPR

Creator and Pioneer of the eBay inc Engineering Amsterdam office, I'm heading the expansion of eBay engineering in Europe with the development of a center of excellence in Amsterdam, Europe. We are hiring and growing fast!

Head the global Product and Engineering departments for Commerce Ads, Ad-Tech and AI-based Recommendations for Shoppers.We act on both side of the marketplaces by empowering merchants/partners with marketing tools to boost sales velocity while creating magical and personalised buyer experience on eBay.These groups are present in San Jose, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, New York, Shanghai and Amsterdam. Team size: ~500 people.Additionally - I created and build the first engineering center of excellence of eBay inc in Europe with Amsterdam. Today, I run the expansion of the office as General Manager/Site Lead.

Run the global product and technology group for Advertising and Recommender systems. Lead a fantastic group of ~200 talented people: engineers, data scientists, product manager and product marketing across multiple locations: New-York, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Berlin and ShanghaiWe are hiring!

I’m heading the global product management and product marketing groups in charge of advertising technologies, marketing and recommender systems at eBay. Team size: 40 Product managers and Product marketing managers.Key products under my leadership:- Promoted Listings - Discovery and Personalization recommender systems - Seller Promotions tools - Adserver and Header Bidding platforms- eBay Audience Platform - eBay Commerce Network

Product Lead for Global Advertising Initiative (2017-present):- Lead Product and Technology strategy for Advertising and Seller Marketing platforms for all regions with the support of cross-functional teams (sales, finance, analytics, engineering, design). Represent Product organization in executive steering committee and review with C-level.- Lead Global product marketing teams since March 2018Director of Product (2016-present): Run global advertising technologies on and off-eBay for all ebay.com properties and international. Our suite of technologies supports a business of $XXXm including: auction server, yield engine, audience extension platform, advertising network, native creative system. PM team size of 20 with total team across PM/PD/QE ~70. My team is distributed across North America: NYC, Portland, San Jose, San Francisco and interact with global business leaders across the globe.Global lead, Product management (2015-2016): Led the launch of in-house advertising technologies supporting a business so far monetized by third-parties platforms. Led the launch of mobile advertising.

Led the creation of business incubation department for the European advertising business. The mission was to accelerate the innovation pace of eBay by partnering in the field of ads and commerce with start-ups and venture capitalists. Thanks to key partnerships, we scaled new business ventures in a record time for various areas such as: audience extension, algorithmic pricing, mobile advertising and seller advertising.

Led the introduction year of programmatic advertising development on European eBay properties. Managed from legal, privacy, ad-operations to pricing, ad-serving th strategy to monetize inventory with programmatic advertising technologies: SSP, DSP, DMP. Additionally, I've been the leader of the development of seller advertising programs that became with success the promoted listing solution for eBay sellers.

Managed the development of app store and ended up leading the redesign of Ex-BestMedia/Purch properties: tomsguide.com and tomshardware.com aligned with the monetization strategy, Interacting with journalist, sales and marketing, designer and engineers. Ultimately, I worked with GM Business Development to build their advertising network.

Built with associates a music service coupled with artists information - pre-Spotify period - with senior advisors from Interscope Records.We lost but I learnt building a technology with a bootstrapping approach and build a robust financial planning that helped to interact with venture capitalists.

Managed the european performance marketing team for shopping division of Lycos Europe distributed in UK, DE, FR, IT, AT.The mission was to acquire traffic for Lycos e-commerce properties by using new keyword bidding technologies generating high ROAS.

Led the development of first keyword technologies that enabled to raise the rank of SEO pages and also, extract keyword quality score for search advertising programs.