Shekhar Yadav

Technology Strategy, New Venture Development
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
Shekhar Yadav is a versatile technologist, builder, and product strategist with a knack for transforming ideas into tangible products and fostering well-executing teams.
His expertise lies in working with companies and products in the early stages of market discovery, offering assistance in hiring engineering and product talent, creating product roadmaps, defining early technology IP, and formulating execution plans.
With a diverse background, Shekhar has experience in building programmatic adtech platforms, developing machine learning models for drug discovery, and designing consumer mobile apps.
His specialties include hiring and building remote teams, new product launches, cloud technologies, adtech, programmatic advertising, email marketing, big data, health technologies, and social media.
Currently, Shekhar is particularly focused on machine learning, Adtech, and enhancing user engagement.
He is available for consultation on various aspects such as product strategy development, technology roadmap creation, team hiring, advice on AdTech, programmatic advertising, consent/permission marketing, scale and infrastructure, as well as IP portfolio strategy and evaluation.
Having a strong educational background, Shekhar Yadav holds a BE in Computer Science from SATI Degree, Vidisha, and MBAs in both Strategy from Columbia Business School and Finance from London Business School.
In his professional journey, Shekhar has held various roles including Founder at 23 Ventures, Advisor at Invisibly, Partner at Aadye Investors, SVP Product & Engineering at Invisibly, Founder at Objects.AI, EVP Innovation at Rubicon Project, Founder at Parooz, and more.
He has also contributed his expertise at renowned organizations like Google, ThreadMarketing, StrongMail Systems, Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd, and others, showcasing his extensive experience and diverse skill set.
Shekhar actively advises companies and founders on product development and technology, and welcomes inquiries, questions, and quick chats for consultation.