Mazdak Rezvani

BIO

For Mazdak, software has always been a passion. In fact, his commercial software development experience goes back to the age of 15! (His first shareware received Windows Sources Magazine's Shareware of the Month mention) He is currently CEO & Founder of Chatkit, an Artificial Intelligence startup focusing building a conversationalmarketing platform. Prior to that he was SVP of Engineering, Buyer Cloud at Rubicon Project. He co-founded Chango and was its Chief Technology Officer until it was acquired by Rubicon in 2015. Chango was named Canada's fastest growing startup by Deloitte in 2014. At Chango he helped create the first fully integrated solution that combines data-driven marketing to instantly deliver campaigns across all digital advertising channels - display, mobile, social, and video. He was also a co-founder of BubbleShare in 2005, a company that was called one of the rising stars of Toronto's tech scene. My work was instrumental in the growth and ultimate acquisition of the company by Kaboose Inc. in 2007. Kaboose was sold to Disney in 2009. After leaving Kaboose, Mazdak became VP of Engineering at HOT or NOT (part of Avid Life Media). From there he moved on to the social gaming world as VP of Operations at Tall Tree Games, the creator of YoVille (Sold to Zynga) and Fish World.