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Redwood City, CA, US

Pasadena, CA, US

• Lead product organization of 20 consisting of product management, UX, and marketplace quality
• Refocus product and engineering organization on revenue growth, which reversed the prior year's decline and drove YoY company revenue growth
• Created a new product strategy and roadmap that leveraged existing strength in the product portfolio and positioned the organization to compete effectively
• Instilled a culture of continuous process improvement. Optimized product management process and created recurring stakeholder checkpoints to increase collaboration which enabled the team to stay efficient and focused.

New York, US

New York, New York, US

Prebid.org is an independent organization promoting fair, transparent, and effective header bidding. Based off of Prebid.js, the wildly popular open source header bidding wrapper, Prebid.org works with a wide variety of companies

Redwood City, CA, US

• Lead product management for header bidding, mobile, video, CTV, and retail media products
• Built out a new product management team by recruiting high-performing product leaders for PubMatic’s high-growth business areas including mobile in-app, video, and CTV
• Drove product strategy for new OTT/CTV product offering which established PubMatic as a leading CTV SSP and was a key factor in achieving 55% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth
• Steered video roadmap and execution to better serve both sellers’ and buyers’ needs resulting in 83% year-over-year revenue growth

Playa Vista, CA, US

• Head of Product for Rubicon Project’s Innovation Lab, The Garage
• Lead a global team of 18, including Product Management, Engineering, Operations and Technical Account Management, for DSP Builder, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for RTB ad buying. Successfully shepherded product from.
• Manage product function for innovative low latency Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, HFC2. Leveraging competitive analysis, established product roadmap to create differentiated offering. Took product from.
• Create a staged innovation process for The Garage. Defined project phases and exit criteria for each phase. Build flexibility into the process so a concept’s path to market can be customized to its individual needs..

San Jose, California, US

Head of product management and product marketing for AerCloud, a platform of building Internet of Things (IoT) applications

Redwood City, CA, US

• Lead product management team, set product strategy and created roadmap for StrongView’s cross-channel marketing platform which enables digital marketers to create and execute cutting-edge marketing campaigns
• Product lead for a new data platform that provides actionable analytics on rich and long-term consumer behavioral histories across multiple marketing channels. Set vision and create a roadmap based on new platform.

New York, NY, US

• Led product effort which created a new platform for integrations to AOL Mail, an email service with 30M monthly unique visitors and $100M in annual revenue
• Created AOL Webmail’s Plug-in Program. Developed roadmap, authored product requirements and recruited launch partners. Formulated platform launch strategy. Evaluated financial attractiveness of partner relationships..

New York, NY, US

• Manage all technical aspects of TopSpeed, AOL’s web acceleration system. The system is deployed to 20 million customers worldwide, and processes in excess of 15 billion transactions per day.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

US

• As a founding member of the Traffic Server product engineering team (which grew to 35 members) led design and implementation of Inktomi’s flagship product, a high-performance internet server.
• Granted Patent # 7,228,317 for “Method and Apparatus for Accelerating and Improving Access to Network Files” and Patent # 7,243,136 for “Approach for Managing and Providing Content to Users.”

Mba, Finance

Bs, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science