Kaushal Kurapati

Executive with vast experience and history of product leadership in data and AI via Search, Recommenders, MarTech (real-time behavior intelligence - CDP - personalization) and Fintech (Loyalty, card-linked offers).

* Currently SVP of AI & Search at Salesforce, working on the Einstein AI platform
* Previously at Oracle led ~400 people globally (US, Europe, India) across product, engineering, and data science groups spanning real-time data, personalization, recommenders, AI/ML efforts as part of Oracle Marketing Cloud division. General Manager for CDP efforts (Unity and Infinity IQ product lines) delivering real-time behavioral intelligence to customers. Responsible for P&L, product vision, execution roadmap, customer health, business growth, pricing, and GTM (go to market). Overseeing ML efforts for the division across predictive models, email subject line predictions, automated testing & optimization.
- Drove 5 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, exceeding stretch revenue targets for Fiscal year 2022

* Previously - Vice President of Products at Mastercard, building a personalization platform to deliver targeted card-linked offers to consumers based on mining past transaction behavior.

* Previously Head of Product for eCommerce platform for Small Businesses; plus incubating new efforts in broader Commerce space - retail circulars, retargeting and local merchant offers.

* Previously Head of Products - Yahoo! Web Search, Mail/Personal Search, Multimedia and all Vertical Search (Local, Shopping, etc.) World wide markets responsibility for all Search pages on Yahoo!. Setting vision, strategy, and execution of all consumer experience for 7 Billion+ page views and 325M+ users worldwide. Managed a global team of product managers and designers based in California, Europe, Singapore, Taiwan, Bangalore, and Sao Paulo.

* Previous: Senior Director - Yahoo! Responsible for all of Y! Search in Emerging Markets - India, LatAm, South East Asia and Middle-east. Developing Search strategy in 35+ emerging markets and responsible for all Search product operations.

* Awards: a) 3-time Hackathon winner at Mastercard including a Global Prize; (b) Yahoo! You Rock award - Feb 2010, for speed in execution in getting Yahoo! Middle-East / Arabic Search launched. (c)Yahoo! Super Star Award 2009 - awarded to only dozen teams in Yahoo! worldwide for extraordinary accomplishments & leadership. (d) Distinguished Career Alumni Award 2006 - University of Delaware; (e) Group Award for Technical Excellence 2000 - Philips Research Labs. f) Awarded 25 US Patents to-date