Dmitri Kazanski
Los Angeles, CA
My certifications
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
About
Title: VP of Product & Data Sciecne
Ad Tech product innovator with 23 years of leadership experience. I partner with Data Science teams to build Machine Learning solutions that optimize monetization, campaign performance, and audience building.
- Hired and led world-class Product, Monetization/Yield, and Data Science teams.
- Launched Contextual Bandits Machine Learning solutions to optimize publisher yield & advertiser conversions.
- Led the development of an NLP classifier that sorts billions of pages into 700+ IAB categories in 11 languages.
- Launched native ads in 2005 and dynamic messaging ad products in 2006–years before the terms existed.
- Built a solution that automatically launched tens of thousands of ad campaigns for small businesses.
- Created an in-house Data Management Platform (DMP), which resolved contextual relevance more effectively than Google, as demonstrated by a CTR of 8% and an eCPM of $45.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2023-10-02 - present - ClearPier, Inc. (VP of Product & Data Science)
- 2009-01-01 - 2015-05-30 - Manta Media, Inc. (Product Owner)
- 2016-09-14 - 2019-02-15 - OpenX Technologies, Inc. (Product Owner (Sr. Director, Programmatic Direct))
- 2019-05-28 - 2021-01-31 - Hive Media Group (Product Owner (VP of Product))
- 2021-03-08 - 2023-02-28 - MGID, Inc. (Head of Product, North America)