Oleg Vishnepolsky

CTO, Board Member, Author, Advisor

London, England, United Kingdom

About

An ad tech and Internet technology leader, with extensive international and M&A experience as a CTO and CIO in environments of extreme technical complexity, of high scale and of high availability. Innovation is my passion, and my track record includes: the first in the industry brokerage website, click-to-call, the very first DMP for ad agencies. I participated in defining Internet protocols and have broad experience managing distributed teams. Specialties: managing international and distributed technical teams, high technical complexity, resilient and high scale/availability transaction environments, change management, turn-around management, technology M&As, ad tech, Internet protocols.

Experience

  • Global CTO at Daily Mail - MailOnline
    Sep 2014 - Apr 2023 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html The Daily Mail is the world’s biggest English language newspaper website with 240 million unique visitors per month. MailOnline is a rare combination of disciplined classic journalism-driven reporting with a meet-the-market mix of breaking entertainment, celebrity, showbiz, health, science, money, sports and travel news stories produced in a volume (over 900 pieces of content a day) to satisfy any and every interest.

  • CTO at Xaxis and 24/7 Media, WPP companies
    Jan 2007 - Sep 2014 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    Oleg was responsible for all technology in the company and for the wide and deep ad-tech stack which included an ad serving platform called OAS, an RTB exchange, a DSP, a SEM platform, an agency ad server, Data Management Platform and several other proprietary systems and tools. These technologies made 24/7 Media the undisputed leader in digital marketing.

  • Vice President, Search and Publishing Technologies at AOL
    Dec 2005 - Jan 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

    As AOL's vice president of publishing and search, I was primarily responsible for AOL's in-house publishing and search systems, as well as setting up agile processes and global teams to ensure rapid and iterative software development

  • Vice President, Engineering at Google/DoubleClick
    Jun 2001 - Aug 2005 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Responsible for technology organizations: DART, Marketing Automation, DARTMail, MRM, Campaign Management, DART Enterprise, WebSite Analytics, Unitymail, SEM

  • CTO, SVP of technology at AT&T - LiveAdvice
    Jan 2000 - Jun 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos

    CTO of a start-up. LiveAdvice is an expert Website where people can get advice from experts in real time over regular phone. Technology developed: Computer telephony, billing system, client facing Website, and middleware behind it. Managed entire technology team, reporting to CEO.