AI Pioneer, Global Product Leader, and Architect of Two $1+ Billion Businesses
Amit Seth is an AI Pioneer and hands-on Product Leader with over two decades of experience architecting and scaling category-defining products at the intersection of Data Science and business strategy. He is distinguished by his track record of driving foundational innovation at global enterprises—including IBM, Amazon, WPP, Nielsen, and Yahoo!—resulting in the creation of two distinct product lines that each generated over a billion dollars in business value.
Currently the Global Head of Data and AI at IBM’s The Weather Company, Amit leads the deployment of advanced AI-driven products to solidify the world’s most accurate forecasting.
Architect of AI-driven Product Innovation
Amit’s impact is rooted in his technical depth and execution focus across critical industry sectors:
- Pioneering Product Creation: At Nielsen, he served as EVP of Global Media Products, leading the launch and scaling of cross-platform advertising products that digitally transformed the company’s offering and grew into a $1B+ business.
- Foundational AI Innovation: As the foundational AI architect at Yahoo!, Amit pioneered and executed the first successful systems for content personalization, recommendations, and behavioral advertising targeting across all major assets. This work became the strategic cornerstone of the company.
- Executive Leadership: He has held numerous C-level executive roles, including Global Chief Product and Data Officer (a Managing Partner) at WPP GroupM (overseeing $65B in media investment) and heading new product expansion for Amazon Advertising’s MarTech foray (achieving $1.5B in revenue impact for Amazon).
- Hands-On Acumen: An entrepreneur at heart, Amit founded and led a successful behavioral data platform company that was later acquired. His commitment to technical innovation is proven by 12 applied patents in the AI/Data domain.