Bismarck Lepe is an information technology CEO and product manager. Lepe is the founder of Wizeline.[1]
Bismarck C Lepe | |
|---|---|
| Born | Accra |
| Occupation | Founder of Wizeline |
| Website | Wizeline |
Prior to founding Ooyala with Sean Knapp (CTO) and Belsasar Lepe (Director of Engineering),[2] Lepe worked at Google as a Senior Product Manager responsible for the development and launch of monetization products for the Google AdSense network. While at Google, Bismarck launched over 25 different products focused on search and content monetization that contributed over $1 billion in annual revenue. Lepe directly led the display and video advertising efforts for the AdSense network.[3]
At Ooyala, Lepe was CEO and President of Product from inception in 2007 until August 2009. As CEO, he raised over $10M of funding, developed the strategic vision of the company and signed many of the early media partnerships. In the role of President of Product Strategy, Lepe was responsible for all product and corporate marketing functions and was leading the team focused on developing new monetization technologies for media companies.[citation needed]
Background
editLepe also sits on the Ooyala Board of Directors and is a graduate of Stanford University. He is a Mexican-American. His parents are from Juchitlán, Jalisco, Mexico who moved to the United States in 1979 as migrant agricultural workers who would take Bismarck back and forth to Mexico until he was 5 years old. Lepe speaks fluent Mexican Spanish. His uncle was a doctor in Manzanillo, Mexico. He went to public school in Southern California.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Lepe, Bismarck. "Bismarck Lepe". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ^ Burrows, Peter (31 December 2007). "What Ooyala is Up To". The Tech Beat. Bloomberg Business Week. Archived from the original on January 4, 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Bismark Lepe, CEO of Ooyala". Digital Dealmakers. TV Week. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Startup 101 Workshop with Bismark Lepe". StartupGDL. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Tech in Latin America: Uber beta-tests its helicopter service". 5 July 2016.
Sources
edit- Where does Google go next? by Adam Lashinsky, May 12, 2008.
- Close to the Vest by Quentin Hardy, July 2, 2007.
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