Arun Rao Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Lead Product Manager, Generative AI- Served as a Llama lead and Product Head of Evaluations for the new Generative AI group building cutting-edge Llama models (downloaded 300MM+ times for open-source, used in products like Meta AI, growing from 10M to 500MM+ customers).- Built our entire LLM evaluation systems for data, training, and inference, growing from a 3-person team to 60+ engineers and 230+ XFN, including annotators, privacy/legal, DS/DE, etc. (counterparts were eng and DS directors).- Ran the training programs for all AI & ML product managers inside Meta, to upskill the entire PM workforce of 400+ AI PMs.[Prior] Group Product Manager, Monetization AI- Managed an 8-person product management team supporting 480 research engineers and 90+ XFN developing cutting-edge machine learning models for ads ranking and optimization across all of Meta’s apps, serving 4BN people (counterparts were 2 eng directors and 1 DS director).The Monetization Ranking team was responsible for 2/3 of Meta’s revenue growth from 2016 to 2022. It is the largest ML team inside Meta, and probably the 2nd largest in the world (after Google Search and Ads).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Co-teach a course on advanced product management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, as "software (and AI) are eating the world."- Teach ~110 MBA students each Spring, and 50 executive MBAs in the Summer (“Best professor of the program”).

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Co-led 2 teams with 40 engineers building out personalization and machine learning recommender algorithms (back-end and front-end) to help customers get the best music experience possible.- Developed, tested, and deployed ML, deep learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms and systems into production to serve 50-100MM customers, showing a 198% increase in our main engagement metric after dozens of experiments.

- Co-founded a profitable, machine learning search startup with 16 employees making voice virtual assistants to help 340K consumers search for, compare, and select bank and insurance products- Led teams as the CEO and Head of Product, shipping over 20 different assistants with a deep ML/NLP core, mostly on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant - Won awards from Google and at industry conferences (Money 20/20 and LeadsCon)

Berkeley, Ca, Us

- Chosen as a portfolio company in UC Berkeley's startup accelerator Skydeck's Fall 2017 cohort (Skydeck accepts 20 startups each cohort, out of 650 applications, a 3% acceptance rate)- Won "Most Innovative Startup" at LeadsCon 2017 and "Best New Action / Chatbot" from Google

Newport Beach, California, Us

- Traded RMBS, high-yield bonds, HY derivatives, and distressed debt, with portfolios adding up to $250bn AUM- Helped improve stochastic and machine learning algorithms and data-sets to trade RMBS and HY derivatives better- Team won Morningstar's 2013 U.S. Fixed Income Fund Managers of the Year Award (Ivascyn/Murata)

San Francisco, California, Us

- Managed business development for large family offices and foundations- Helped raise $4bn over 2 years

London, London, Gb

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Quantitative Finance

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Classics And Classical Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Mba, Finance

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Corporate, Antitrust, And Tech/Internet/Ip Law