David Talby has extensive experience in building & operating web-scale search and business platforms, as well as building world-class, agile, distributed teams. Previously he was with Microsoft's Bing group where he was a Principal Group Manager leading all business operations for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe, managing teams in Seattle, India and several European countries. Prior to Microsoft, David worked at Amazon both in Seattle, as well as the UK where he built and ran distributed teams which helped scale Amazon's financial systems. David is a veteran of the Israeli Air Force and he holds a PhD in Computer Science along with two masters degrees in Science and Business Administration respectively, all of which were obtained at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition, David has taught courses on Object Oriented Design; Software Design; Distributed algorithms; advanced programing and system analysis; operating systems; systems programming and marketing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah College of Technology, Jerusalem. David has 23 published papers & patents to date