Ben John

Chief Technology Officer at Digital Turbine

New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

About Ben John

Ben John is Chief Technology Officer at Digital Turbine. Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States.

Ben John is leading Technology as the CTO for Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS). He recently led Microsoft’s AI CoPilot data platform, driving the development of personalized AI experiences for consumers and enterprise partners. Ben has extensive expertise in managing world-class products and engineering teams and developing large-scale, high-volume systems. Ben is deeply passionate about human talent and technology with a mission to solve complex business problems and contribute to making this world a better place to live. Ben was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Xandr and AppNexus, the largest independent AdTech platform with a vision to create a better internet. Ben managed the successful merger of AppNexus with AT&T in 2018, and co-founded Xandr by combining all AT&T advertising assets, including AppNexus and Clypd. This established Xandr as a major technology platform in the TV & Digital advertising ecosystem powered by media and data. In 2022, Ben architected the sale of Xandr to Microsoft. Ben joined the Microsoft Advertising leadership team and integrated Xandr & Microsoft Ads as a leading platform of choice for advertisers & publishers and played a key leadership role in the Microsoft / Netflix advertising partnership. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence and serves as an academic advisor to universities while mentoring emerging tech startups. Committed to “Paying it Forward,” he founded the Invest to Impact Network Foundation (ITOI), a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to harnessing technology for social good. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and two daughters.

Skills

  • Start-up Leadership
  • LMS

Additional experience

  • Founder & President

    Invest to Impact (ITOI) Network Foundation

    Started October 2019

Education

  • Disruptive Strategy and innovation, Harvard Business School
  • PhD - comp. sci.,, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences