Bill Michels
Chief Product Officer
Bio:
Bill Michels serves as Chief Product Officer at Gracenote responsible for overseeing global product strategy and execution with emphasis on the companys content Distribution, Discovery and Advertising segments. In this role, he leads efforts to launch new products globally and accelerate key growth initiatives in close collaboration with Gracenotes engineering and data science teams.
Bill brings two decades of product management and data partnership expertise to Gracenote having successfully built data-driven products and businesses across ad tech, CTV, search, and mobile. Most recently, he was General Manager of Commerce Media at Moloco, a machine learning-powered advertising solutions company. Bills earlier roles included EVP of Product and Engineering at The Trade Desk, Chief Data Officer at Foursquare and Chief Operating Officer at Factual.
Bill is an IAB Data Rockstars award winner and a named inventor on three patents. He earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College.