Primary Job Title Senior Director of Product Management - office of CIO Primary Organization Google
Location Mountain View, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Babak Pahlavan (LinkedIn) has been working on AI since 2008, when he was the Founder and CEO of his first AI startup named CleverSense. CleverSense was acquired by Google in 2011, where it became an important personalization layer in Google Maps. Babak went on to spend 11 years at Google as a Senior Director of Product Management, where he led and
scaled several large products and teams including Google Analytics, Enterprise Measurement Suite and others. He left Google in October of 2022 to found NinjaTech AI in partnership with SRI, which is the team's original home of Siri. NinjaTech AI's mission is to democratize access to AI-powered executive assistants, to give administrative time back to every professional and take the drudgery out of work. Babak is the head of the Product Design Committee at Clever Sense.
Babak bootstrapped Clever Sense during its first 2 years and has since secured equity financing from angel investors.He earned his dual-degree bachelor's with honors from UC Berkeley in EE and CS and earned his master's degree with honors from Stanford in EE, with emphases on CS & data mining.
