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Ken Weiner

Ken Weiner
Chief Technology Officer at GumGum

Ken Weiner leads the engineering, product, and supply teams behind the industry’s top computer vision platform for marketers and rights holders. As an active member of the ad tech community, Weiner is a guest columnist for VentureBeat and Forbes, a frequent speaker at conferences and a participant of industry groups such as IAB’s OpenRTB Working Group. He also runs the LA AdTech Meetup which brings together ad tech engineers and product managers. Weiner was LA Business Journal’s 2015 CTO of the Year, and in 2003, he was included in the InfoWorld 100 for his work on uPortal, an open-source web portal framework for the higher education community.

Before coming to GumGum, Weiner was the Director of Engineering at the lead-generation platform LowerMyBills.com, acquired by Experian in 2005. He has also worked as an open-source software consultant, a project manager and an instructor at Interactive Business Solutions, acquired by Unicon Inc. in 2003. Weiner received a B.S. from UCLA and currently lives in Los Angeles. Away from the office, he enjoys mountain biking, hiking, California native plants, jazz music and playing the saxophone.