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With software and monetization experience at YouTube and Google, Ikkjin Ahn co-founded Moloco in 2013. During his time with YouTube in the monetization team, Ikkjin developed a video profitability prediction system. While at Google, he was the founding Tech Lead Manager for the Android Data team achieving the Google Citizenship award in 2012.
As CEO, Ikkjin sets the strategy and vision for the company. Ikkjin is often sought out for his opinions on machine learning, data privacy, performance advertising, and growth marketing. He leads the company’s continual investment in machine learning and R&D and has led the company through significant revenue growth, global office expansions and staffing increases while earning recognition as a Great Place to Work and as a Deloitte Fast 500 company. Ikkjin is an advocate for all employees by ensuring that Moloco continues to be an inviting employer that welcomes diversity and provides opportunities for employees to learn and advance their careers.
Ikkjin is a 2004 graduate of Seoul National University, holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied Computer Science as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.
With decades of machine learning and engineering team leadership at Google, and most recently at Snowflake as Machine Learning (ML) Architect, Tal Shaked provides counsel and execution to transform Moloco’s machine learning teams for the future. This includes defining the team’s culture, areas of focus and execution, coaching, and where investments in the team should be made.
Prior to Snowflake, Tal held Distinguished Engineering roles in two separate tenures at Google where he co-founded Sibyl, a machine learning platform that boasted the most deployed production models, and built the teams responsible for Google’s machine learning platform development. Additionally while at Google, Tal co-founded TensorFlow Extended, the next generation ML platform centered around deep learning which soon had 1000+ models trained throughout the company. Tal also held a ML role at Lyft.Prior to his technical career journey, Shaked was a professional chess player and Grandmaster.
Tal earned an MS from the University of Washington in Computer Science and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona.
DJ and Ikkjin Ahn (CEO) met as college classmates in 1997. They both attended the same grad school (UC San Diego) under the same advisor (Prof. Michael Taylor). While Ikkjin left grad school to join Google in 2008, DJ continued to earn his degree and then joined Google’s Cloud Storage team in 2012. He joined Moloco in 2015 and was promoted to CTO in 2016.
DJ manages a global team of site reliability, software and cloud engineers collectively known as Moloco’s infrastructure team. The infrastructure team is instrumental in providing a reliable, scalable, and efficient cloud service for Moloco’s suite of cloud-based services. Recognized by Google as a Customer Award Winner in the cross-industry category, Moloco’s infrastructure demonstrates business excellence and the team’s ability to overcome challenges with innovative thinking and leadership.
DJ earned a Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego and his BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University. He published several technical papers in premier CS conferences like PLDI, OOPSLA, and CGO.
Sunil Rayan brings more than 25 years of business experience in building commercial and product operations to Moloco where his duties include overseeing all commercial functions across Moloco’s products and platforms.
Prior to Moloco, he served as President and head of Disney+ Hotstar, where he grew the streaming business 8X to 50M+ subscribers, scaled 20+ markets internationally for Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar across India, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa, and led the launch of the next generation Hotstar streaming platform. Before joining Disney+, Sunil held leadership roles at Google for more than seven years where he headed the company’s Global Mobile App ads business and helped build Google Cloud solutions for Games. Prior to that, he was an Associate Partner at McKinsey serving technology clients across a variety of functions.
Sunil holds a degree in Computer Engineering from University of Madras, India.
As CFO at Moloco, Brandon Maultasch oversees all financial functions including strategic finances, mergers & acquisitions, investment, and accounting. Brandon believes that sharing financial knowledge with employees provides better outcomes as employees have an opportunity to participate in creating value.
Brandon joined Moloco in 2019 after ten years of advising software and Internet companies on capital markets. He spent eight years with RBC Capital Markets where he held vice president, director and managing director roles. He worked on mergers and acquisitions, value creation and capital markets transactions across many sectors including e-commerce marketplace, social media, advertising technology, digital health, direct-to-consumer brands and on-demand mobility.
Brandon’s early interests were in the legal sector and he obtained his Doctor of Law (J.D.) from New York University of Law and his J.D./MBA in Finance, Accounting, Entertainment, Media & Technology from NYU Stern School of Business.
Paul D’Arcy is the Chief Marketing Officer at Moloco, where he leads the global marketing team in driving brand awareness, customer engagement, and market expansion. In his role, he is responsible for shaping Moloco’s marketing strategy, strengthening its position as a leader in machine learning-driven performance advertising, and accelerating growth across its product portfolio. With more than two decades of experience, Paul has a proven track record of scaling global marketing organizations and driving transformative growth at high-growth technology companies.
Prior to joining Moloco, Paul was Chief Marketing Officer at Miro, where he led a team of 100+ marketers to establish Miro as a standard tool for modern enterprises. Under his leadership, the company added millions of users and grew revenue by 1,000%. Before Miro, Paul spent over seven years as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Indeed, where he helped scale the company from $150 million to over $4 billion in revenue and built a 400+ person global marketing team. His efforts cemented Indeed as the world’s most-used job site, serving 250 million monthly users. Earlier in his career, Paul held his first CMO role at MessageOne, a pioneer in email archiving and business continuity SaaS, which was acquired by Dell in 2008.
Paul earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
David Sehyuk co-founded Moloco in 2013 after nearly seven years with Oracle. At Oracle he worked on the Cloud Computing, Nimbula and Virtualization teams. During his service with Oracle, he was involved in many machine learning and cloud computing projects.
At Moloco, David oversees the largest, global team consisting of machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data engineers.
David obtained his BS from Seoul National University and went on to study computer science and machine learning at Stanford. He is distinguished by being a world finalist in ACM ICPC World Finals 2004, where each year an elite group of the brightest collegiate problem solvers on the planet comes together to compete in the top tier of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. Additionally, Sehyuk was a Gold medalist at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 1998, a silver medalist in 1996 and a medalist in the National Mathematical Olympiad in 1998 and 1999.
Francesco Renzo joined Moloco in June 2022 as the Vice President of Go To Market, supporting sales and driving global growth strategies.
Previously, Francesco worked at Google on Revenue Analytics, building and growing the apps sales team in the US, and driving the Channel Partner Strategy and Operations. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey in Milan, Shanghai CN, and Boston, focusing on Marketing and Sales for B2B.
Francesco grew up in a small town near Naples, obtaining his Master’s degree in Finance in Milan. Outside of work, Francesco spends time with his family and enjoys being an avid motorcycle rider.
Shailesh Murali joined Moloco in early 2022 as VP of Strategic Finance. With over two decades of experience in various finance leadership roles, including mergers & acquisitions and investor relations, Shailesh helps drive the next stage of Moloco's growth. He is responsible for overseeing, planning, and directing the company’s path to achieving consistent, predictable, long-term financial growth. Working closely with the company's leadership, business and product teams, Shailesh looks to invest organically and inorganically as well as develop and execute Moloco’s longer-term financial and partner strategy.
Most recently, Shailesh was the Head of Corporate Development and served as the Head of Investor Relations at DXC Technology. He previously served as Managing Director and Head of Software Investment Banking at the Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that, he worked at Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Nortel Networks.
Shailesh grew up in India and graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS, Pilani). He got his MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He currently lives in Bellevue with his wife and daughter and enjoys reading, solving cryptic crosswords and playing the tabla.
A distinguished leader and innovator in risk management, Rudy Rouhana joined Moloco in 2021 to lead the company's Global IT, Security and Compliance teams and serve as the company's Data Protection Officer.
Prior to joining Moloco, Rudy held executive leadership positions at Credit Karma, Drift and Simplee, where he led compliance and security programs that contributed to the companies' customer success, addressed FTC Consent Decrees, and led to multi-billion dollar acquisitions. As a consultant, he led Navigant's Bay Area legal technology practice, helping clients such as Nvidia, Cisco and others respond to complex, high-stakes litigation. As an entrepreneur, Rudy co-founded StoredIQ, a pioneering company in information governance that was acquired by IBM.
Rudy earned a JD from the Catholic University of America, and completed the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechanics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Rudy maintains active bar memberships (NM, IN), is a licensed investigator (CA), and CISSP, CIA, CFE and CIPP/US certifications.
Ben Jeger brings more than 15 years of business experience in building new markets and customer facing teams to Moloco where his duties include heading up the sales and growth management teams in the EMEA region.
Prior to Moloco, he served as Managing Director, Central Europe for AppsFlyer, where his team grew the business by more than 300x in 6.5 years to an 8-figure-SaaS-ARR across 20 countries. His responsibilities included Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Partnerships. Before joining AppsFlyer, Jeger held leadership roles at Fyber for more than 4 years where he headed up EMEA’s client services teams.
Ben received his BSc. and postgraduate certificate from Manchester Business School in Management and lives with his wife and two sons in Berlin.
Sid Jhawar is a passionate operator with an exciting journey, which has taken him to very diverse industries and countries. Before joining Moloco to set up the India business, he had built and scaled the Intercity food delivery business of the Indian food delivery platform Zomato.
He has previously worked in the Government of India as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Finance Minister. Sid has been a banker at Deutsche Bank and a management consultant at Bain & Co, where he specialized in financial services in South-East Asia. He has also driven strategic business initiatives for Disney’s APAC team and the Indian streaming app Hotstar.
Sid has a Bachelors and Masters in Technology from IIT Delhi, a CFA charter, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He stays in Gurgaon (India) with his wife. Sid is an avid traveler, a passionate foodie, and has done stand-up comedy shows!
Nopparat Yokubon is the country lead for Moloco Ads in Southeast Asia and Australia New Zealand based out of Singapore.
Prior to Moloco, she spent a little over 16 years playing a critical role in launching and scaling AdSense / AdMob monetization business and App Ads business for Google in Southeast and Australia New Zealand region, capturing two technology shifts opportunities from online to mobile app.
With Sell Side Monetization Business, Nopparat led the launch of contextually targeted ads for Southeast Asian languages, expansion of content publishers and developers network and enabling them to make a living from making content that they love. She later started the AppDev Sales team and scaled the App Ads business in Southeast Asia, Pakistan, and Australia New Zealand enabling a hockey stick growth while contributing to building out the developer ecosystem.
Prior to Google, she worked at Exxonmobil Thailand. She has an Arts bachelor degree from Chulalongkorn University and has a double master degree in Marketing and Management from College of Management Mahidol University and University of Technology Sydney.
Hyun Chai Lee is currently responsible for leading the 'Scaled Growth Enablement' team at Moloco, where he facilitates the achievement of scalable growth within the organization's business operations. Prior to this role, Hyun Chai was instrumental in establishing Moloco's South East Asia business and served as the leader of the Korea and APAC DSP business teams for a period of four years.
Hyun Chai brings a wealth of experience to his role, having worked in various capacities for prominent technology companies such as Google and Meta, where he gained exposure to both the supply and demand sides of advertising businesses in Korea, Singapore, and Ireland. Additionally, he previously served as a Product Manager at SK Telecom, the leading mobile telecommunications company in Korea.
Hyun Chai holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, with a minor in Business Administration.
