George Berkowski
Chief Executive Officer at ShopAR - 3D and AR Commerce Platform (a Zalando Group Company)
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGeorge Berkowski is a data-driven tech entrepreneur and CEO with 18 years of experience founding and scaling high-growth marketplace, fintech, e-commerce and AR businesses, including DeepAR (100M monthly AR experiences) and Hailo (acquired by Daimler). He combines product-led growth instincts with hands-on engineering and design leadership, having built and managed teams from early startups to 100+ product squads at Booking.com. An MIT-trained engineer with an ESCP MBA and author of "How to Build a Billion Dollar App," he excels at rapid iteration for measurable business impact and productizing cutting-edge ML/AR research into production SDKs. Beyond exits and corporate leadership, he intentionally blends consumer product empathy with merchant and developer-facing platforms, evidenced by his work shipping ultraHD AR try-on and 3D commerce capabilities. He also pursues mission-driven projects—like a children’s sleep aid book—demonstrating a pragmatic curiosity that spans consumer behaviour, deep tech and venture investing.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering & Economics, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering & Economics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe University of SydneyMBA, Innovation, Marketing, Finance, MBA, Innovation, Marketing, Finance at ESCP Business School
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Github contributions (5)
labrad/servers
Jan 2008 - May 2014
LabRAD servers
Contributions:705 commits in 6 years 5 months
spot-us/spot-us
Aug 2009 - Feb 2010
Contributions:1335 commits in 6 months
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