Ari Hirbod is a veteran technologist with over two decades of experience in diverse areas of product development, including finance, search, gaming, and marketplaces. Ari is VP of Product Management at Rakuten where he has played critical leadership roles in bringing to market the company's next generation consumer and business platforms to empower data-driven experiences that deliver monetizable customer value. Today, he is responsible for Rakuten's global Rewards platform, its Data and ML/AI platform, as well as Privacy and Data Governance product compliance.