Travis Muhlestein — CTO
C-level executive and business innovator, technology architect and leader of world-class product and engineering teams for advertising platforms, consumer services and enterprise products that yield billions in annual revenue. Passion and experience driving innovation that spans startups to global businesses, shepherding M&A activities, running turn-around businesses, and setting industry-wide vision, including Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Bing Ads and Xbox, Nvidia GeForcePC, GeForceNow, Shield mobile gaming products and cloud services. Demonstrated Business Vision & Success In: Strategy definition and execution excellence. Relishes in solving complex business and technical challenges, seeing tiny details that make up big-picture strategy. Bridges existing business and product direction, ensures team goals are aligned with corporate strategy, and fully utilizes available technologies, processes and resources. Transformational leadership. Builds the right organizations. Creates culture where team members, stakeholders and BoDs think out of the box and execute against vision and strategy. Execution Excellence – Key Accomplishments include: Led global 1,000+ multi-disciplinary teams. Built scaled products, technology, organization and businesses serving to 100s of millions of users. Delivered advanced marketplaces and auction systems that yielded $2+ billion annual revenue. Brought innovation through technology advancement, strategic design, business articulation and big data/ machine learning/ AI, resulting in breakthrough product launches into the market: • Established key business partnerships, direct customer engagement and industry innovation to set the vision for business cultivation and expansion. • Scaled high-performance product teams that delivered high-impact businesses that fostered easily repeatable delivery of industry leading innovation. • On-premise Big data and MLAI solutions capable of handling daily multi-peta bytes of data, real-time business analytics & ML automation, data-driven productivity, and generative content. • Implemented advanced product AI and AB testing that increased product efficiency and established learning cultures (measuring not only lift but also customer satisfaction and product reliability)
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Gaming industry leader with extensive experience in digital transformation and product management.
Experience: 36 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Digital Transformation & Innovation
- Product Management
- Business Development
- Healthcare
- Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Team Building & Leadership
Career Highlights
- Led global teams delivering $2 billion in annual revenue.
- Pioneered AI-driven product innovations across multiple industries.
- Transformed business strategies for leading tech companies.
Work Experience
GoDaddy
Chief Technology Officer (Product and AI) (7 mos)
Chief Data and Analytics Officer (4 yrs 5 mos)
NVIDIA
Head of Global Product Development - Game Software Experiences (6 yrs 7 mos)
Benessere
Executive Director and Chairman of the Board (12 yrs 11 mos)
ICON
member, Board of Directors (1 yr 5 mos)
Microsoft Xbox (IEB Division)
Engineering Leader (PPM) (3 yrs 2 mos)
Microsoft Developer Division
Group Program Manager / Product Unit Manager (1 yr 5 mos)
Microsoft adCenter
Group Program Manager / Director (3 yrs 11 mos)
Microsoft RTC Services
Group Program Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)
Microsoft Indigo Xml Enterprise Services
Program Manager (1 yr 5 mos)
Microsoft Windows
Lead Program Manager (2 yrs 8 mos)
Software Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)
Brigham Young University
Software Engineering Manager (2 yrs 6 mos)
International Software Solutions, Incorporated
Co-Founder / Vice President of Marketing / Director of Development (1 yr 2 mos)
WordPerfect Corporation
Software Engineer (International) (4 yrs 4 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Washington, Bothell
at Brigham Young University