Travis Muhlestein

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United States36 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Gaming industry leader with extensive experience in digital transformation and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital Transformation & InnovationProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentHealthcareStrategic Leadership & VisionLeadershipEntrepreneurshipTeam Building & Leadership

Other Skills

AIDigital TransformationProduct DevelopmentMarketingStrategic PlanningTechnical AnalysisGame DevelopmentProject ManagementBusiness AnalysisEmerging TechnologiesCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentAgileAgile MethodologiesDistributed Systems

About

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)

Experience

Godaddy

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer (Product and AI)

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Enabling Entreprenuers and Small Buisinesses to thrive through our products, powered by AI
AIDigital TransformationProduct DevelopmentDigital Transformation & InnovationProduct Management

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Apr 2021Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Helping Entreprenuers and Small Buisinesses get a head start!
MarketingStrategic PlanningTechnical AnalysisDigital Transformation & InnovationBusiness Development

Nvidia

Head of Global Product Development - Game Software Experiences

Sep 2014Apr 2021 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Redmond, Washington

  • Leading the charge for the next Generation of Gaming at NVIDIA!
  • Running a global gaming division (pm, engineering and design) across core gaming products:
  • GeForce Experience (PC gaming)
  • GeForce NOW apps (cloud gaming)
  • NVIDIA ShieldHub (mobile gaming)
  • Locations include: China dev team (Startup); pm and dev teams in Moscow, Pune & Bangalore; and multiple pm, dev and design teams in the U.S.
MarketingGame DevelopmentProduct ManagementDigital Transformation & Innovation

Benessere

Executive Director and Chairman of the Board

May 2013Present · 12 yrs 11 mos · Redmond Washington

  • Benessere Inc. is a non-profit entity focused on building health models that can utilize digital devices and services to drive down healthcare costs. Our vision is to educate the global community on sustainable health and wellness. Our mission is to challenge the traditional patient episodic care by focusing on proactive “personalized health wisdom.” We aim to detect, reduce and in some cases remove the impact of certain diseases through technology and activity based measurement. In practice this means speeding the delivery and bridging the gaps between health and technology to mobilize change in the global community's approach to health and wellness. My role is to lead Benessere with these technologies and drive change through collaboration with partner healthcare organizations that achieves lasting results for the community.
MarketingHealthcareBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Leadership & Vision

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member, Board of Directors

Jul 2012Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Seattle, Wa

  • International Consulting Opportunities with NGOs (ICON) is a nonprofit organization that provides consulting opportunities for business students in developing countries with nonprofits. We facilitate the development of student led organizations that increase the social impact of nonprofits and strengthen leadership skills.
Strategic PlanningProject ManagementBusiness AnalysisDigital Transformation & InnovationProduct Management

Microsoft xbox (ieb division)

Engineering Leader (PPM)

Jul 2011Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · redmond

  • Xbox 360 & One - The all-in-one entertainment systems.
  • Special project Rio - Xbox cloud gaming clients and server streaming platform.
  • Lead engineering of product software line and incubations of consumer entertainment platform, Xbox One and Xbox 360. Ran game streaming group for Xbox 360, One, Windows, and WinPhone running on xbox server appliances. Drove console e-Commerce business to deliver customized purchase experiences as effortless extensions of the platform.
  • - Linchpin of integration across 10 Engineering groups, Sales, Marketing and 60 supply chain and distribution partners for Xbox One pre-sale initial launch that generated $20 million revenue. In 90 days, secured agreement on vision, architecture, beta, go-to-market strategy and channel distribution for 40,000 units.
  • - Led multiple Xbox 360 holiday season releases to 70+ million customers per release, including engineering of cloud-based profiles, marketplace, all-up framework delivery, tools, and advertising pipeline support.
  • - Led strike-force Program Management team that built and managed the engineering effort for the Xbox 360, Xbox One marketplace and platform systems, and incubated cutting edge systems that continue to drive Xbox as the gaming platform leader, outpacing competition in units sold and increasing revenue targets by 150%.
Strategic PlanningTechnical AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Transformation & InnovationProduct Management

Microsoft developer division

Group Program Manager / Product Unit Manager

Feb 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Ran services P&L, developed vision for three-year business plan, and drove collaboration across division to implement core online services and architectures.
  • Built and ran business for industry developer and IT professional communities. Developed online monetization solutions (Ads), overhauled developer markets and implemented business turn-around strategies that drove 200% increase in customer traffic. In first year, established $100 million revenue pipeline potential.
  • Managed high-growth, high-performance Program Management, Development, Test and Sales team of 100+. Transformed team culture, developed senior leadership and implemented successor planning to accommodate anticipated growth.
Technical AnalysisTeam Building & LeadershipLeadershipEntrepreneurship

Microsoft adcenter

Group Program Manager / Director

Mar 2006Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Led $2 billion P&L and engineering responsible to create new online advertiser solutions, capture exciting markets and drive critical business solutions. Ranked top 5% at Microsoft for 2007 employee review period.
  • Created holistic advertising platform spanning display and search Ads that included deep customer engagement (i.e. Product Summits), internal development, acquisitions ($100 million discretionary budget for acquisitions) and outsourcing. Efforts led to $300 million YoY revenue from premium advertisers, now the source of 60%+ adCenter revenue. Honored by executive leadership with distinguished Microsoft Business Innovation Award 2009.
  • Improved engineering and business efficiencies in customer editorial workflow systems and outsourced development resulting in product/policy change and $100 million support cost savings.
  • Built Program Management team from ground up through dynamic advertising/e-Commerce landscape. Brought in senior leaders with aligned vision, and focused on comprehensive training and customer insight.
Strategic PlanningBusiness DevelopmentDigital Transformation & InnovationProduct Management

Microsoft rtc services

Group Program Manager

Jan 2004Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Led 100+ person cross-company teams in vision, design strategy and implementation of core service platform spanning LiveMeeting, divisional e-Commerce products and management systems. Drove e-Commerce solution throughout customer lifecycle for all division-wide service solutions. Designed architecture at scale, outlined requirements/gaps with Office Live and MSN teams, ran remote development teams and aligned marketing for online services vs. direct sales.
Strategic PlanningProject ManagementDigital Transformation & InnovationBusiness Development

Microsoft indigo xml enterprise services

Program Manager

Aug 2002Jan 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos

Technical AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Transformation & InnovationTeam Building & Leadership

Microsoft windows

2 roles

Lead Program Manager

Dec 1999Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Technical AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Transformation & InnovationTeam Building & Leadership

Software Engineer

Sep 1997Dec 1999 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Technical AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Transformation & InnovationTeam Building & Leadership

Brigham young university

Software Engineering Manager

Mar 1995Sep 1997 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Technical AnalysisDigital Transformation & Innovation

International software solutions, incorporated

Co-Founder / Vice President of Marketing / Director of Development

Jan 1994Mar 1995 · 1 yr 2 mos

Technical AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Transformation & Innovation

Wordperfect corporation

Software Engineer (International)

Sep 1989Jan 1994 · 4 yrs 4 mos

MarketingProject ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness Development

Education

University of Washington, Bothell

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Leadership

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Brigham Young University

Jan 1995Jan 1997

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