Michael Richardson
Vice President Of Product Management at Index Exchange
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Richardson is a product leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling advertising and payments platforms, currently serving as Vice President of Product Management at Index Exchange in Portland, Oregon. He has led global product organizations at Samsung Ads and Xandr/AppNexus, driving outcome-focused teams, ML/AI modernization, and architecture upgrades that supported rapid scaling and above-market growth. A technical cofounder at Urban Airship and cofounder/chairperson of Prebid.org, he combines hands-on engineering roots with open standards advocacy to shape industry-wide header bidding and adtech tooling. He’s experienced at moving teams from feature-driven roadmaps to measurable business outcomes and at partnering closely with GTM, analytics, UX, and privacy functions. Known for launching platform-level products and operational improvements, he’s equally comfortable sketching APIs and steering multinational product orgs. His background in political science and early civic tech work hints at a long-standing interest in open systems and public-facing impact.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Bachelor of Arts Political Science at Reed College
Github Skills (7)
eagle7
azerothcore6
prebid5
django4
python4
python-client3
client-library2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
urbanairship/pubsubsuperfeedr
Jan 2010 - Oct 2010
Simple Python library to interface with Superfeedr's pubsubhubbub interface.
Contributions:13 commits in 8 months
python-librarypythonpubsubhubbubpython-3python3
marchon/Flask-Simple-Registration
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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