E-commerce specialist Rokt adds technology veterans Noel Curtis and John Walzer to leadership team
Rokt, an e-commerce technology company tapping machine learning to make transactions more relevant to shoppers, has appointed two new executives to its leadership team.
Former Grubhub executive Noel Curtis has joined the New York City office as SVP of Engineering, while Amazon veteran John Walzer has been appointed to lead Rokt's new Seattle Development Center.
Curtis will be responsible for all engineering efforts in New York, including demand side systems and machine learning, reporting infrastructure, campaign management solutions, upsell systems, the experimentation platform, and user research and design.
Walzer will be in charge of opening and staffing a new office in the Seattle area that will focus on accelerating development of new solutions for Rokt's e-commerce marketplace.
Both Curtis and Walzer will report directly to Bill Barton, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Rokt.
"Noel Curtis and John Walzer are two notable leaders in technology and we are excited to welcome them both to our team as we look ahead to a year full of new opportunities and growth," says Barton.
"We look forward to seeing Noel accelerate progress in our New York office and for John to usher in a new stage of growth for Rokt in Seattle, an incredible tech hub where we'll be able to access a whole new pool of talent."
Curtis was previously Vice President of Technology at Grubhub, where he oversaw a large portion of the e-commerce marketplace with initiatives in discovery, subscriptions, loyalty, pricing and experimentation.
Walzer is an engineering and technology leader with 20 years of experience in the e-commerce, telecommunications and multimedia industries, most recently serving as a Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon.
Rokt also recently welcomed Google veteran Reuben Kan as Distinguished Engineer. Based in Sydney, Kan helps lead projects focused on system architecture, subsystem design, performance optimisation, and client facing APIs and SDKs.
He previously served as Principal Engineer/Engineering Director at Google Maps and as Principal Engineer at Google Apps. Before joining Google, Kan was a Research Engineer at Silverbrook Research and a Software Engineer at CISRA.
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