Ashvin Kannan, VP of Marketing Solutions Engineering, leads a team of talented engineers responsible for the advertising platform and products that marketers use to engage effectively with their target audiences. The team focuses specifically on the various forms of native advertising that leverage the unique strengths of the LinkedIn economic graph.  

     Prior to LinkedIn, Ashvin had senior leadership roles at A9.com/Amazon, where he was the Director of Ad Tech, and at Yahoo as Senior Director of Research and head of Performance Advertising Sciences. Prior to that, he worked at Nuance on commercial applications of Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing. Ashvin did his BS from IIT-Roorkee, and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in the field of Speech Recognition.

John Jersin is responsible for the products at LinkedIn that help millions of people get jobs and help almost every top company hire, focusing on applying Artificial Intelligence and other innovations to deliver next generation enterprise software services. John serves as the Senior Director of Product Management for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, where he leads 5 major product lines that drive a multi-billion dollar revenue stream; the majority of LinkedIn’s business. He joined LinkedIn via the acquisition of Connectifier, where he was founder and CEO and built a company that pioneered the use of Artificial intelligence in hiring, ultimately worth nine figures.

     Jana Vembunarayanan joined LinkedIn in 2008, was one of the lead engineers to design and develop the payments platform from scratch. On this platform we are fulfilling $4B worth of orders every year. After building the payments platform he led the Jobs engineering team and laid the foundation to scale the jobs platform by 10x. On this foundation, several mission critical projects like Ubiquity and Job Seeker Mobile application for iOS and Android got built. His other interests include teaching and investing. He wrote a book on Value Investing. He is a lifelong learner and generously shares knowledge with others through his blog.

Neha loves to work on technology that empowers users and uplifts the society. She possesses a strong sense of ownership and passion when it comes to her work. She thrives on collaboration, loves to mentor others, excels at communicating and empathizing with folks in different roles. She has successfully led and delivered multiple key projects. She is very passionate about software development and building products tailored towards amazing user experience. She is an advocate of diverse teams. She was named Top 10 Women in Cloud for 2017. She loves to engage in public speaking and has presented at various conferences including Conference of Engineering Diversity 2017 at San Jose State University where she was a Keynote Speaker.
She is a hackday veteran. She mentors at Holbertron School and has started a blog, PiMothers, to share inspirational stories and experiences of Mothers in Tech and STEM fields. She loves to travel, read books, write poetry and experiment in kitchen.

Abhishek is a Senior product leader currently with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. He is also alum of Twitter, Amazon, Yahoo!, and Adobe. Also an entrepreneur, founding and leading start-up called Unboxed.

He has led both consumer facing products and enterprise applications from conception to ship and has Deep expertise and experience in the mobile/ social/ native/ programmatic advertising space. He played role in helping develop advertising platforms at Twitter, Amazon, and Yahoo! Regarded for innovation driven product development, business strategy, and thought leadership.