About Us
What we do
Leveraging the power of AI technology and machine learning, we’re driving significant growth and increased revenue for TV broadcasters and streaming networks with our AI-powered retail media platform. Our innovative technology enables seamless second-screen shopping experiences, allowing viewers to easily shop for products seen in, and inspired by, their favorite shows, movies, sporting events and live awards shows, all within the safety and security of the broadcaster’s environment.
The founding team
Meet our team of tech innovators, start-up trailblazers and award-winning creatives whose collective years of experience, at some of the most impressive organizations, is redefining how content and commerce converge.
Glenn Fishback
As a seasoned operator and builder with over 25 years of digital media experience, Glenn has consistently demonstrated his ability to increase revenue and achieve multiple M&A exits. In March 2021, during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn successfully negotiated the $133 million (USD) sale of Toplooks.ai, a bootstrapped AI commerce startup, to Klarna Inc. At Klarna, Glenn launched the Klarna Retail Media Network into a $200M+ (USD) profitable entity.
Bryan Quinn
A former Amazon executive with deep streaming TV and advertising experience, Bryan founded Amazon Publisher Services and multiple billion dollar advertising businesses during his 11 year tenure. He launched video advertising on Fire TV and Prime Video Channels, audio advertising on Alexa, and interactive shopping ads on CTV and Alexa. Bryan was a member of Amazon's Senior Leadership Team for Sponsored Advertising.
Tabrez Mohammed
As the former Head of Platform Engineering and Applied Science for Amazon Photos, Tabrez has extensive experience building globally-distributed, state-of-the-art machine learning solutions in ranking, relevance, natural language processing and computer vision at exabyte scale. While at Amazon, he advised SVPs on multi-year technical strategies utilizing generative AI and large language models. His 15+ years of experience also includes time at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, where he launched cloud infrastructure and marketplace platforms, supporting 500M+ customers.
Eve Friedman
An innovative and seasoned executive in the digital commerce and advertising space, Eve launched and scaled multiple $100M+ businesses by building enterprise partnerships, developing advertising strategies and user-centric solutions. Her profound knowledge and understanding of AI and machine learning and how it can advance commerce for publishers, advertiser and retailers is the foundation on which Shopsense was launched.
Gavin Simpson
A Clio award-winning designer with 20+ years of experience balancing creativity and execution in key areas to bring growth to businesses. In the course of growing Toplooks.ai, culminating in the company's acquisition by Klarna, he played a vital role in developing its strategic direction. Whether in the B2B or B2C sector, he excels in branding, performance marketing, and user experience. Through the combination of performance metrics and innovative product design, he creates narratives that elicit emotional responses and deliver results.
Eleanor Duff
An accomplished multi-exit business executive with nearly 20 years of building and scaling digital media products and services, Eleanor’s experience spans leading Customer Service organizations in multiple B2B and DTC organizations with early startups and Fortune 500 companies. Her unique blend of technical insight, complex problem-solving skills and customer focus is a tremendous asset to the team.
Marissa Ramirez
An experienced and dynamic leader, Marissa has built and scaled multiple $100M+ advertising businesses through partnerships with some of the world's largest publishers and agencies/advertisers (WarnerBros Discovery, Paramount Global, Publicis, State Farm). Prior to joining Shopsense, Marissa spent a decade at Amazon, where she was responsible for the Amazon Ads’ commercial strategy, GTM motion and operational execution for agencies/ advertisers to access top streaming TV apps using Amazon technology.
Samuel Gottlieb
Specializing in the strategic development and scaling of solutions within Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Sam is known for delivering impactful solutions. Holding a patent in synthetic image generation, his generative AI model processes over 400,000 photos daily within minutes of upload. Prior to joining Shopsense, Sam led high-impact teams at CarMax, focused on Computer Vision and Generative Large Language Models, contributing over $75 million in annual revenue while reducing infrastructure costs by 80%.
Dharmil Chandarana
Having a mix of experience in both the domains, Dharmil thrives at the intersection of Machine Learning Engineering and Computer Vision Science to develop and deploy Artificial Intelligence models at scale. Dharmil worked on multiple high-impact projects at Amazon, across AWS, Alexa and Amazon Photos teams, with a focus on delivering end-to-end cost-effective ML solutions. He also holds several patents and has co-authored multiple scientific papers in the ML space.
Alexandra Smith
A seasoned product leader in the ad tech space, Alex was instrumental in the launch of Disney’s programmatic and self service advertising channels—from bringing the Disney Real Time Ad Exchange (DRAX) and Disney Campaign Manager (DCM) to market, to turning them into $1B+ channels. Alex came to Disney through the Hulu integration, and was previously at Rubicon Project, now Magnite, where she built and launched Demand Manager, a managed Prebid solution that brought the best of open source and proprietary technology together to help publishers monetize their web and app properties. Alex was heavily involved in Prebid Org, where as the Chairwoman, she orchestrated the first meetup for publishers and technology companies to discuss the latest advancements in the space.
The Shopsense AI retail revolution is underway.
