Lars built the Sponsored Products auction, quality, and bidding systems at Amazon — one of the highest-revenue ad platforms in the world. As a leader across Product Management, Applied Science, and Engineering at Google and Amazon, he developed deep, hands-on expertise across the full ad tech and commerce stack. His work on targeting, bidding, and graph-cluster-based experiment design has been adopted broadly across the industry, delivering significant revenue growth at scale.
M.S. Computer Science (ML), Georgia Tech · MBA, Cornell
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Ram architected the Sponsored Products ad server at Amazon, scaling it 100× to meet global demand. His expertise spans the full ad stack — auction dynamics, price optimization, and ML pipelines for relevance and conversion prediction — built across 20+ years designing Tier-1 distributed systems at Bloomberg, Amazon, Convoy, Flexport, and Avantus. He also led the architectural redesign of Amazon's A/B testing and analytics infrastructure, enabling safe, high-velocity experimentation at massive scale.
M.S. Materials Science, UT Dallas · B.S. Electrical Engineering, UPenn
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Yannet spent five years as a Data Scientist at Google. There, she built models to analyze ad quality, user segmentation, and lifetime value across YouTube and Google TV ads. She then moved into startups, building machine learning models as a senior data scientist and co-founder. She was a Professor of Data Science at the University of San Francisco, teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Additionally, she's held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley's Statistics Department and Esade in Barcelona. Her research applies deep learning and transformers to problems in natural language, recommendation systems, and applied science.
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
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Brian led product for Google's Search Ad Automation — automated bidding, targeting, advertiser-facing conversational experiences, the Ads AI GenAI/LLM partnership with Google DeepMind, and the Ads ML real-time inference platform. Before Google he was a Director at Amazon, where he incubated and scaled the Amazon Scholar Program and led cross-functional product, science, and engineering teams in demand forecasting, price elasticity, and large-scale experimentation — including Amazon's Weblab experimentation platform and clickstream analytics backplane.
Director, Core AI — Amazon · Sr. Director, Product — Google
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