Lance RiedelFounder

United States - Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Technology strategist and builder. Founded 2 companies, led technical strategy at $XXB companies, and built teams from the ground up to tackle new business opportunities. Unique ability to supply the vision and leadership to connect technology to business innovation.

Built out large teams at leading consumer and enterprise companies to startups, helped start a leading silicon valley tech incubator ( The Hive)- always striving to innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible.

Obsessed with Aviation -- Commercial Helicopter Pilot, Private fixed wing. Lifetime of building and working on mechanical projects (rebuilding cars, motorcycles, early member of TechShop, welding, drones, model airplanes)


Company Founder and CEO
• Co-founded with Stanford Professor Jure Leskovec and Vanja Josifovski a company (Kosei) and led as the CEO from idea to launch and eventual acquisition by Pinterest.
• Co-founded a company (Proximal Labs) in the big data and matching platform space and acquired by Jive Software

Inventor and initial builder of Pinterest's search engine (Manas) that powers search, recommendations, and ad selection for Pinterest.

• Filed 14 patents in matching and social search space (8 granted so far)

• WSDM 2016 Industry Day Chair (speakers included Qi Lu, Ron Conway)

• Founding member of the Computational Advertising group in Yahoo! Research; the team published (WWW, SIGIR, CIKM) and created the platform used for matching throughout Yahoo (contextual ad matching, search matching, front page personalization)