Nikhil Nilakantan is a seasoned product management and engineering executive with a wealth of strategic and operational experience spanning different types of organizations - Fortune 100 companies to startups. A graduate of Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business, he also has degrees from The Hyderabad Public School, and the Florida Institute of Technology where he worked as a research assistant and project lead at the Center for Software Engineering Research. With a proven track record of building high-performance teams that help scale high-growth businesses, Nikhil Nilakantan is a lover of tackling complex problems and finding creative solutions that benefit both customers and businesses. He has held various executive positions, including General Manager of the Vertical Advertising Solutions team at Amazon (where he oversaw a global team), and Head of Reading Growth for Amazon Kindle. As Co-Founder and CEO of Glass (shopglass.com), moreTap, and Social Span Media LLC, Nikhil has built successful businesses from the ground up. As a Product Manager at Texas Instruments, he managed product lines from ideation to launch with a focus on delivering customer value. Similarly, he was Director of Product Management at Match.com, where he led the product strategy for a diverse portfolio of products. Nikhil's skills and expertise extend to tech leadership, tech program management, and data science/ML, and he is actively hiring for experienced applicants in Seattle, New York City, Toronto, DC Metro, and Santa Monica.