Andy Crossen

Andy Crossen is a visionary technology leader who integrates product strategy & engineering tactics with a sense of craftsmanship, aiming to develop centers of excellence and foster understanding of technologies within executive teams. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University.

Andy is currently Head of Product & Innovation at Channel Factory, where he owns product vision & execution. Before that, Andy was CTO at Advanced Contextual, an Open Web contextual targeting company. Prior to Advanced Contextual, Andy was VP of Product & Engineering at Kinetic Social, a leading social advertising company, before which he led R&D at Twelvefold Media, developing a marketing platform for matching consumer intent with digital content at scale. Prior to Twelvefold, he designed, built and supported the AI/Machine Learning technologies at Perfect Market, an Idealab company providing software solutions for digital publishers that was acquired by Taboola in 2014. Andy started his career as principal architect at MediaRiver (f/k/a Intellext), where he co-authored 6 patents around an intelligent desktop search tool.

Expertise:
AI, Machine Learning, Statistical Information Retrieval, Search, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, High Performance Systems, Semantic Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Big Data