Phillip Markert

Phillip Markert is the CIO at LiveIntent. Phillip previously worked as the SVP Software Engineering at Amobee from August 2014 to September 2018. At Amobee, Phillip led distributed teams of Software Engineers in the development of multiple software systems serving the ad-tech industry. These systems are highly fault-tolerant and scalable, handling millions of requests per second.

Phillip's team at Amobee was responsible for developing, maintaining and managing petabyte range big-data applications, middle-tier API processing, integration layers for cross-vendor communication, and modern user-facing web-applications. They worked on solution stacks for advertisers (DSP/RTB), publishers (SSP/Exchange), and intermediaries (ISP/Telco) across a variety of channels including display, mobile, video, email, and social advertising.

Phillip's role at Amobee focused on both business and engineering related activities such as helping to set strategic direction, M&A support (both as the acquirer and as the target), budgeting, planning, establishing effective policy and processes, talent acquisition/retention, architecture, design, optimization, mediating, coaching, coding, reviewing, and debugging. The team that they established was highly distributed, being spread across North America, EMEA, Australia, and APAC.

Even within Amobee, the engagement and satisfaction ratings from Phillip's team have been consistently at the top; The turnover rate on their team has been phenomenally low, as team members typically thrive in an environment of autonomy, trust, and freedom with proper boundaries and expectations to tackle problems and provide solutions. Project stakeholders and clients have been thrilled with the responsiveness and agility of Phillip's team to handle issues and provide new solutions.

Phillip Markert's educational career includes a BS in Business Management from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, a Master's degree in Information Technology from American InterContinental University, and certification from Amazon Web Services in both AWS Certified Developer and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Some of their coworkers include Jon Beck - Chief Revenue Officer, Jason Oates - Chief Business Officer, and Adam Boardman - SVP, Sales. Phillip Markert reports to Matt Keiser, CEO.