Krishan Bhatia

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About Krishan Bhatia

As Taboola’s first Chief Business Officer, Krishan leads global sales and partnerships across the company’s entire product portfolio, including the Realize performance advertising platform, its generative AI and CTV performance products and its large network of global publisher partners reaching 600 Million DAUs.Prior to Taboola, Krishan led Amazon‘s global video advertising business across Prime Video, Live Sports, Twitch, and third-party programmers, serving as VP, Global Video Advertising & Partnerships for the company. Krishan built an industry leading organization that grew Amazon into the global leader in premium streaming TV advertising. His teams led the expansion of Prime Video advertising into 15 countries, drove significant share shift during Upfronts, expanded Live Sports advertising into a global multi-sports offering, built a Brand Partnerships capability to align marketers with Prime Video’s global IP, relaunched Amazon’s Local Ads business with a partner-first approach and grew agency and technology partnerships by integrating Amazon DSP as a best-in-class solution across premium publishers and the open internet.Before Amazon Krishan was President & Chief Business Officer of NBCUniversal’s Global Advertising & Partnerships division where he oversaw the company’s Digital, Streaming TV & Advanced Advertising business. He led the creation and growth of the company’s digital media business, developed NBCU's advertising technology platform, launched and scaled the ad-supported streaming service Peacock, developed the company's data and identity platform NBCUnified, and led industry efforts for new cross-platform measurement and currency standards. Krishan also built a portfolio of 200+ partnerships with the world's leading media and technology companies and launched the company’s first global advertising offering.Krishan took on his role at NBCUniversal after Comcast acquired the company in 2011. He originally joined Comcast in 2005 as a founding executive team member of Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Comcast, Krishan was a Principal with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Media & Entertainment Practice advising the world's leading media and technology companies.Krishan currently serves on the Board of Directors of Integral Ad Science (IAS) and the Global Board of the MMA. He previously served as Chairman of the IAB's Board of Directors as well as on the boards of TVScientific (acquired by Pinterest), OpenAP and Anzu.Krishan earned a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.