Tony Ralph

CTO

Sunnyvale, California, United States27 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in integrating marketing and product development.
  • Led global data product management at PepsiCo.
  • Pioneered ad tech solutions at Intuit and Netflix.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with a focus on data-driven product management and digital marketing solutions.

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Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipDigital MarketingOnline AdvertisingDisplay AdvertisingScalabilityMobile ApplicationsStrategyMobile AdvertisingDistributed SystemsIntegrationWeb DevelopmentUser ExperiencePerlApache

About

“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation.” -- Peter Drucker, "The Practice of Management" Contemporary marketing allows us to understand customers holistically when it is embedded within all aspects of the business. This reduces Drucker’s distinction in the ideal scenario: product innovation inherently entails marketing. At its best, “marketing technology” is nearly indistinguishable from “enterprise technology”. Less optimally, a brand’s desire to put customers first is interrupted by siloed organizations and fragmented infrastructure. Those who have solved this at scale (Google, Facebook and increasingly Amazon) now understand so much about “customers” they've made a (lucrative) business by offering this knowledge to less fluent brands. This is the backdrop which has framed my career: attempting to understand customers via solutions which interweave and harmonize advertising and core product development. When done well, what is the difference? Experiences garnered along the way include: ◆ Digital transformation ◆ Engineering & Product leadership ◆ Online media (both buy and sell side) ◆ eCommerce + subscription services ◆ Acquired technology & talent integration ◆ M&A evaluation; infrastructure integration ◆ Engineering / data Infrastructure & cloud migration ◆ Vendor assessments, negotiation, partnerships ◆ Global org, team & talent development ◆ Identity, personalization, user journey ◆ Experimentation and digital measurement ◆ Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) ◆ Monetization strategy and solutions, sales engineering ◆ Ad technology architecture and strategy ◆ Global MarTech integration & solutions, Marketing Ops ◆ Creative production, creative ops (DAM, CMS) ◆ CRM, Customer Support / Services ◆ Data governance: CCPA, GDPR, VPPA, COPPA, SOX, etc.

Experience

27 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Google

GCP -- Google Kubernetes Engine

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Self-employed

Advising / Consulting

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Working with both start-ups and global entities: customer experience data management, marketing / advertising, strategic positioning, go-to-market tactics, technical roadmap and vendor assessments.

Pepsico

SVP, Global Data Product Management

Jan 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Own and manage vision, roadmap, and execution of all global data and digital products for PepsiCo.
  • ● Led team to articulated 5-year product development roadmap (and related funding options) for global data and digital priorities.
  • ● Drove detailed first year roadmaps and resourcing plan including epic-level breakdown across all strategic initiatives.
  • ● Established product management team vision and values across the organization.

Walmart

Vice President, Product Management

Jan 2018Jan 2021 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Acted as product lead for bidding and buying platforms and related tools for marketing tool suite across all marketing channels. Led team of 45 product managers who prioritized and executed across ~ 200 engineers/data scientists.
  • ● Served as customer data product lead for company, which included vision, execution, and integration of offline and online events and experiences for one of largest consumer data sets in world (data for over 80% of U.S. households).
  • ● Implemented identity graph, which unifies offline and online transactions and events for one of largest consumer data sets in world.
  • ● Led CCPA compliance efforts.
  • ● Key contributor to CEO-level negotiation on strategic partnerships with emerging digital partners (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Verizon, etc.).

Intuit

Director, Product Management

Jan 2016Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Recruited to re-architect ad tech and marketing tech solutions globally.
  • ● Expanded purview, after one year, to own data platform solutions and personalization efforts across full user journey including marketing, sales, customer care, owned and earned media, and all business segments.
  • ● Oversaw innovations including introduction of machine learning and collection of data to feed training, establishment of testing practice, and directing strategy and tooling to bring marketing tactics in-house (from agency led).
  • ● Global CRM migration and harmonization (from 13 global CRM solutions to one canonical source).

Netflix

Director, Product Management, Marketing Technology

Jan 2013Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Los Gatos, California, United States

  • Served as product management lead for global digital marketing infrastructure and automation with full stack ownership including digital production tools, trafficking and workflow enhancement, dynamic ad-serving, and programmatic optimization solutions and analytics. Acted as global lead for vendor identification, integration, and ongoing partner management across full programmatic buying stack.
  • ● Drove vision and specifications for near real-time streamed data pipeline and associated visualization. Reduced data feedback loop from weeks to approximately one hour, unlocked cross-channel reporting, and transformed data access to self-service model.
  • ● Designed tools and workflow to reduce digital production lifecycle (from raw asset to digital creative) by 60%.
  • ● Scoped, designed, and implemented infrastructure, process, and workflow to enable shift from regional marketing teams to unified global programmatic team and campaign execution in advance of Netflix’s global launch in 2016.
  • ● Designed and implemented most advanced programmatic ad technology platform in industry including measurement via statically rigorous “incrementality” and deploying variants of Netflix’s recommendation algos in a global digital context.

Google

2 roles

Senior Manager, Partner Technology Organization

Promoted

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Product management role devoted to Google’s Tier 1 publishers. Provided bespoke solutions outside the core product offerings facilitating new monetization channels and reporting capabilities.
  • ● Recruited, interviewed, hired, managed, and developed top talent to lead Google’s $X billion RTB platform, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, in feature request gathering, technical escalations, commercialization, tools, and global service solutions.
  • ● Formed nexus of global communication between sales, support, product management, marketing, and core engineering teams.

Display Advertising Solutions Consultant, DoubleClick for Publishers

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Publisher-facing display advertising consultant for the DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) platform.
  • ● Served as custom data solutions lead for premium customers.
  • ● Onboarded customer to Google Cloud Platform to facilitate proprietary solutions.
  • ● White glove contact for highest revenue publishers. Skilled at high priority escalations and establishing customer satisfaction from the most demanding partners.

Yahoo

4 roles

Engineering Product Specialist, Display Advertising

Jan 2009Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Served as external-facing engineering liaison and expert consultant for one of world’s largest display advertising serving infrastructures. Ensured stakeholder satisfaction, outward communication, and business solutions. Led various global code and infrastructure rollouts (global data center consolidation, upgrades).

Principal Engineer, Display Advertising

Promoted

Jan 2007Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Acted as technical lead for tools and process realignment for new infrastructure designed to test compliance of display advertisements to technical specifications, policy, and front-end best practices.

Engineer and Property Liaison, Display Advertising

Promoted

Jan 2004Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Evolved from developer of tool suite designed to enforce SOX compliance for Yahoo’s ad serving system to local and eventual national expert in display ad counting standards.

Software Engineer

Jan 2000Jan 2004 · 4 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Oversaw design, development, and 24/7 operations of movies.yahoo.com and tv.yahoo.com from launch to rating as most visited sites on web for movies and TV information.

Cnet networks

Software Operations Engineer

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Oversaw software deployment, monitoring, debugging of production systems and associated tools for 18-plus high volume (12-15 million pages per day) websites including, CNET.com, Download.com, News.com, and Computers.com.

Education

UC San Diego

Bachelor of Arts - BA — Philosophy • Minor: Literature

California State University - East Bay

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science (completed all core coursework toward degree)

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