Benji Shomair

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

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Experience

24 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Openai

VP Monetization

Dec 2025Present · 6 mos

  • Building the OAI business across Ads, Commerce and Apps

C100

Charter Member

Mar 2021Apr 2026 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Gopuff

Advisor

Jan 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · United States

Facebook

4 roles

Vice President, Commerce Business

Promoted

Jun 2019Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Leading and scaling the go-to-market and partnerships functions for Facebook's commerce businesses across Facebook and IG (IG Shopping), Marketplace, Messenger and Whatsapp.

Vice President Product Monetization and Marketing – Business Platform and Messaging

Promoted

Jul 2015Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Led global team of Monetization Product Marketers (product strategy/monetization, operations and marketing) across Facebook’s Business Platform and Messaging products representing all organic business products and long tail ad solutions.
  • Our team builds and grows marketplaces, local products and business product platforms including: Messenger, Pages, Events, Jobs, Rentals, Autos, Marketplace (C2C), Ratings and Reviews, Local Search, Location data and Payment across Facebook (Ads, P2P, B2C)
  • Drove strong results via inbound and outbound marketing including active pages growth from ~40M to ~65M+; Active Advertiser growth from ~2M to ~5M+; Messenger platform growth from inception to x00k+

Director of Global Accounts

Jan 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Lead the development and operations of Facebook’s partnerships with the world’s leading marketers and their agencies; we partner with marketers to maximize and accelerate the business and brand-building potential of the global Facebook platform
  • $x00M+ in deals developed/signed; $x0M+ in direct revenue managed; Developed fastest growing partnership globally
  • Consistent quota and annual contract outperformance by xx+%
  • Awarded global recognition for customer service/partnership

Head of Global Business Operations - Direct Sales and Partner Channels

Feb 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Lead strategy, operations and finance globally for Facebook Direct Sales Organization including all partner channels (global accounts, agencies, PMD/FMPs, adtech and data partners).
  • Served as the Chief of Staff for the Global Head of Sales and as the "COO" for the business unit. Responsibilities include customer/channel/sales strategy, strategic and financial planning, sales partnerships, sales operations, analytics, reporting and forecasting, budget control, resource allocation, sales finance/compensation design and org. and process design
  • Managed operational growth from $x00M to $x000M revenue base and from x00 to x000 FTE organization
  • Lead the operational transition to programmatic and mobile go to market/product; Built Facebook Marketing Partner program (PMD), Global Accounts and Agency teams
  • Directed cross-functional/global initiatives including development of channel partner programs, new market entry and new office opening globally
  • Built and managed global team of Business Operations professionals (New York, Menlo Park, London, Singapore and Sao Paulo)

Hearst ventures

Venture Associate - Strategic Investments

Jul 2007Oct 2007 · 3 mos

  • Transactions: Series C investment in WideOrbit; Sale of SlingMedia to EchoStar
  • Sourced and evaluated investments; Conducted industry analysis/company screens; Observed board meetings; Reviewed deal documents and participated in legal, technical and operational diligence
  • Supported acquisition of UGO Networks and Kaboodle; Participated in strategic, technical and legal diligence; Developed performance dashboard, company targets and management incentive structures
  • Supported portfolio companies on operations analysis, financial modeling and business plan creation

The bridgespan group

Senior Associate Consultant

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr

  • Developed guidelines and performance metrics for deployment of over $500M in capital to support high school education; revised grant structures to support the scaling of nonprofit organizations’ results
  • Created business plan for education focused non-profit to support building organizational capacity required to scale community impact

Bain & company

Principal

Jan 2002Feb 2011 · 9 yrs 1 mo

  • Top rated Bain manager focused on Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) and Consumer businesses (CPG/Retail)
  • Led cross-functional teams of Bain consultants and clients; presented recommendations to senior management; hired, supervised, mentored and trained new consultants
  • Addressed wide range of client issues including due diligence, acquisitions and divestitures, partnerships, merger integration, customer segmentation/marketing strategy, salesforce effectiveness, growth strategy, complexity reduction, organization design, operations/performance improvement and business plan creation

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

MBA

Jan 2006Jan 2007

Ivey Business School at Western University

HBA — General Management

Jan 1999Jan 2001

McGill University

Biology

Sep 1997May 1999

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