Premium, award winning custom home building company that is driven by innovation and is obsessed with exceptional design and superb functionality.

Revolutionizing the way people learn piano. Where the national average to get to a diploma level is 12+ yrs, Payam Music's students get there in 4 yrs!

I served as the Board member and member on the Enterprise Capital Committee focused on building connections between start-ups and large corporations.

• Responsible for Meta's PNW region supporting 8,000+ Meta employees. Responsible for key decisions on growing Meta's presence in the region (real estate, transportation, facilities, hybrid work strategy, return-to-office post covid). • Strengthened relationships in the region, partnered with local businesses, city mayors, Chambers of Commerce, council members, non-profits, and the broader community on a variety of efforts and programs.

• VP & Head of Product & Technical Program Management for Virtual and Mixed Reality from 2022-2024. Launched Meta Quest 3 & Quest Pro headsets and led the evolution from virtual reality to mixed reality. Build several new revenue streams, grew app store revenue, and built a stronger developer ecosystem.• VP Product for Entertainment (Video, Audio, Music) in Facebook App from 2018 to 2022. Turned around the video strategy and grew video to over 50% of time spent on Facebook (X billion hrs/day of video watch time), launched premium music videos, fantasy gaming, and built a multi-billion dollar creator/publisher economy and revenue stream for Meta. Promoted twice.• Led Facebook Search PM & TPM teams focused on AI / ML from 2017-18. Meaningfully improved search relevance, created a data led culture to the team, and attracted senior talent.• Led product and cross company virtual team to grow Facebook App in emerging markets (India, Nigeria) - a top company priority for MarkZ in 2016/17. Built and overall strategy, got commitments across the company focus on these markets and take goals. Invested in content and UX localization, simplified sign-up flows, built low mobile data usage products, and bootstrapped efforts to mitigate the highly skewed user base and get more women to sign up by building safety and privacy controls.• Led Facebook App Monetization team from 2014-16. Responsible for direct response (DR) ads, partnered closely with the CFO office to manage overall app revenue, ad-sentiment, and ad-load for optimal user experience. Innovated and grew new performance ad products like Lead Ads that are now adding billions in incremental revenue. Promoted to Director.

Served as an advisor to the Co-Founder and CTO on product portfolio and strategy.

Led Apple iAd's self serve mobile advertising platform (iAd Workbench). Launched retargeting capabilities, improved ad yield, and built the custom audience product. WWDC '14 Speaker.

Responsible for Publisher and Marketplace Design Products covering direct publisher business (Criteo Publisher Marketplace) and RTB buys.

Led the Marketplace Product Management team for Bing Ads covering new ad formats, ad innovations, smart pricing, traffic quality, ad quality, relevance, ranking, pricing and allocation of ads.

• Led several efforts across consumer and monetization products over 6 yrs.• 2008: Promoted to Director of Monetization (Search ads)• 2006: Sr. Product Manager, Search Marketing• 2005: Product Manager, Y! HotJobs

Research sponsored by Intel. Developed demand generation and product launch strategies for short life cycle, capital intensive products. Built a pricing model to guide marketing strategies for products with overlapping life cycles.

Led Stanford’s Global Entrepreneurship Program with 400+ members. Led Stanford Asia Technology Initiative (ATI’s) operations in the US, Japan, India, and China. Established ATI sites in India and Singapore from ground-up. Managed ATI’s advisory board consisting of the Office of Vice Provost, Dean’s Office, Stanford Asia Relations Office, eminent VCs and entrepreneurs in US and Asia.

• Published several business cases and studies on use of leading edge supply chain technologies to improve operational efficiency and connection with customers (http://hbr.org/search/PareshRajwat)

Cross functional rotational program across key divisions - Design, R&D, Hi-tech manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, Dealership Channel. Production line management using Just-in-Time (JIT), Kaizen, Kanban Japanese manufacturing principles.

Two six month co-op internships as part of the degree program (June 1996-Dec 1996 / Jan 1998 - June 1998) - part of mechanical engineering undergraduate program.