Full bio
As an Ooyala co-founder and founding CEO, Bismarck Lepe raised $10
million in funding and signed many of the company's early media
partnerships before passing the baton to Jay Fulcher in 2009.
Currently, as President of Product Strategy, he is responsible for
marketing and driving Ooyala's product development vision. Bismarck
sits on the Ooyala Board of Directors.
Before co-founding
Ooyala, Bismarck worked at Google as a Senior Product Manager,
developing and managing new products for the company's AdSense network.
He launched more than 25 different Google AdSense products, including
Click-to-Play video ads and Google's Intelligent Ad Server, which
brought the company over $1 billion dollars in new annual revenue. Most
notably, Bismarck managed the early growth of AdSense display and video
advertising.
Business Week named Bismarck one of its Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs
of 2009. Bismarck has a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Computer
Science from Stanford University.