Simon Mosk-Aoyama

About Simon Mosk-Aoyama

Entrepreneurial executive with a background in Technology, Product, and General Management. As a technology and product leader I bridge the gap between engineers solving difficult technical problems, and businesses demanding products brought to market quickly and with high quality. Have scaled established businesses, helped accelerate early stage startups, and have done the small team in a garage building from scratch.At venerable financial marketplace Bankrate.com I led the 90+ person Product, Engineering, and Business Intelligence teams, helping to rebuild the team and products, increasing revenue from ~$100M to $120M+ and ebitda from $20m to over $30M, ultimately culminating in a $1.4B sale to Red Ventures. I additionally managed the P&L for our second largest business, the Deposits vertical, helping this business more than double from 2016 to 2017 (from $18M to $37M).At mobile-SAAS startup Playhaven I led product, building and executing our marketing tool roadmap before we merged with Kontagent, and at resulting entity Upsight I helped lead processes for measuring and improving churn and the sales pipeline.At CBS Interactive-owned property GameSpot I led Product & Engineering, lead the hiring for over half the 25+ dev team, and led a re-platforming of the site and CMS in conjunction with acquired property Giant Bomb.At Yahoo! Search I led the Production Engineering team, the precursor group to modern devops.Specialties:° General Management° Technology Leadership (Management, Hiring, Agile Process)° Product Management (Leadership, Hiring, Roadmaps, Data Analysis)° Analytics & Business Intelligence (Decision Making, Google Analytics, Looker, Snowflake)

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Niche

   Feb 2025 — Present · NY, US

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Education

• UC Santa Barbara

  BS, Computer Science

Skills

• C#
• Web Applications
• Leadership
• Technical Leadership
• Analytics
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• E-Commerce
• Product Management
• Mobile Applications
• Microsoft Sql Server
• User Experience
• Mobile Devices
• Web Development
• C++
• Start-Ups
• Monetization
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Wordpress
• Scalability
• Javascript
• Strategic Partnerships
• System Architecture
• Engineering Management
• General Awesomeness