Our People

Sameer Kazi

Sameer Kazi is the CEO at Cheetah Digital, where he brings nearly 20 years’ experience in senior-level technology leadership roles. Prior to Cheetah Digital, Sameer served as Interim CEO and Non-Executive Chairman of Simply Measured, and was a member of the supervisory board of Emarsys. Sameer joined ExactTarget in 2008 and as part of the ET executive team drove the company's growth, successful IPO in 2012 and the sale of the company to Salesforce in 2013.

Michelle Curless

Michelle Curless is Chief Customer Officer at Cheetah Digital where she oversees the go-to-market Services and Delivery, Training, Consulting, Transformation, and Client Experience for clients around the globe. She has more than 20 years of experience in customer strategy transformation and has worked with leading organizations and startups across industries in consulting, operational, and business development roles. Prior to joining Cheetah Digital, Michelle led the post-sale organization at Monetate. She also previously served as Vice President, Customer Experience at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, where she established Customer Experience as a key business discipline. She resides in Michigan with her husband and two daughters.

Bill Ingram

Bill Ingram is the Chief Product Officer at Cheetah Digital, where he leads the innovation team, which includes product management, product marketing, engineering, and user experience. With more than 25 years of experience in product leadership roles, Bill most recently led the Analytics Cloud business as Vice President and General Manager at Adobe. Preceding his years at Adobe, he worked at a variety of enterprise SaaS organizations including Sybase and Omniture. Bill lives in Utah with his wife, Amy, and three kids. When he is not working you can probably find him fly-fishing or cycling.

Richard Jones

Richard Jones is the CMO at Cheetah Digital, where he oversees a global team that is responsible for all aspects of the brand, demand generation, digital marketing, corporate communications, and sales development. With more than 20 years of marketing, sales and strategy experience, Jones was previously the CEO of Wayin, a global leader in zero-party data collection and activation. There, he helped many of the world’s leading brands such as Daily Mail Group, NHL, Bauer Media, Vodafone, Priceline.com, Reckitt Benckiser, Air New Zealand, and Manchester City FC create zero-party data strategies. In July 2019, Wayin was acquired by Cheetah Digital and rebranded as Cheetah Experiences. Preceding his time at Wayin, Jones co-founded EngageSciences, which merged with Wayin in May 2016. Jones also led regional sales for the EMEA team at Eloqua.

Jill Knesek

Jill Knesek is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Cheetah Digital, where she is responsible for providing enterprise-wide leadership in developing, planning, coordinating, administering, managing, staffing, and supervising all aspects of information security. This includes developing a world-class security framework for clients and the business as a whole, as well as security governance, policy development, security training and awareness, and security project portfolio development. She has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, working in both internal and client-facing roles. She served as a Special Agent for the FBI, assigned to the Cyber Crime Squad in the Los Angeles field office and was the case agent for several high-profile cases, including the infamous Kevin Mitnick and Mafiaboy investigations. Prior to joining Cheetah Digital, Jill worked as the CISO for Mattel and BT Global Services. She is a frequent industry speaker, has written and published several articles, and has been recognized a number of times for her service to the security industry; notable awards include "The Chief Information Security Officer 100 2017" and the "Top 10 Women in Cybersecurity".

Andrew Bronstein

Andrew has more than 30 years of experience in finance, accounting and operations, including serving as CFO of public and private companies ranging from $200M to $3B in revenues. With a strong passion to create value through driving businesses to full potential, he enjoys identifying the major drivers of success, forming strategies with leaders and executing operational initiatives. Andrew's industry expertise includes SaaS technology businesses, business services and software, health care, medical products, and manufacturing. 

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