General Manager, Experimentation Platform
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- General Manager at Microsoft, Live Platform Services
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- Director, Data Mining and Personalization at Amazon.com
- VP, Business Intelligence at Blue Martini Software
- Manager, MineSet at Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI)
- Manager at Computer Center, Israel
- Programmer at IRIS
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Technion, Israel
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Ronny Kohavi’s Summary
See http://www.kohavi.com and http://exp-platform.com for more details.
Building a new services platform team, I'm recruiting for multiple positions in development, program management, test.
Ronny Kohavi’s Specialties:
Managing teams, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Clickstream mining, Personalization, Decision Trees, Decision Graphs, Accuracy Estimation, Visualization
Ronny Kohavi’s Experience
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General Manager
Microsoft, Live Platform Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Experimentation Platform and Business Intelligence.
See http://exp-platform.com -
Director, Data Mining and Personalization
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Computer Software industry)
September 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Manage multiple teams in a 65-person organization responsible for Amazon’s personalization, automation, consumer behavior / data mining, site experimentation, and automated e-mail. Introduced several features estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars in incremental revenue.
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VP, Business Intelligence
Blue Martini Software
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BLUE; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — July 2003 (4 years 10 months)
Vice President, Business Intelligence
Managed the Business Intelligence Sales Demo team and the Analytic Services team. Helped drive Business Intelligence sales and marketing activities, created success stories, and helped our professional services organization in complex implementations as a center of excellence.
Senior director, Data Mining Applications
Lead the engineering team, including two managers. Responsible for the data collection, transfer (ETL), analysis, reporting, visualization, and campaign management in Blue Martini's products.
Designed and architected the data mining, reporting, and transfer (ETL) modules.
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Manager, MineSet
Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Computer Software industry)
October 1995 — September 1998 (3 years )
Manager, MineSet, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Managed the MineSet data mining and visualization engineering team of 15, including another manager. -
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Computer Center, Israel
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
1985 — 1988 (3 years )
Manager (lieutenant), Israeli Defense Forces, Israel.
Managed 12 people at a computer center in a large army base in Israel. -
Programmer
IRIS
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1981 — 1984 (3 years )
Programmer, International Software, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Developed a database application generator, IRIS.
The program was sold commercially, including sales to the Israeli Defense Forces.
Ronny Kohavi’s Education
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Stanford University
Ph.D. , Computer Science / Machine Learning , 1991 — 1995
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Technion, Israel
BA , Computer Science , 1988 — 1991
Additional Information
Ronny Kohavi’s Websites:
Ronny Kohavi’s Honors:
General Chair KDD 2004 conference
Invited speaker, National Academy of Engineering, 2000
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Inventor of four patents
Papers among 10 most cited in Artificial Intelligence
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ArtificialIntelligence/ExpertSystems/ and Machine Learning http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/MachineLearning/
