Jinlin Wang was Promoted as Chief Operating Officer at Answers

Date of management change: November 24, 2015 

What Happened?

Saint Louis, MO-based Answers Promoted Jinlin Wang as Chief Operating Officer

 

About the Company

Answers is the worlds leading Q&A website providing Answers to all of life`s questions. We also empower brands, organizations and consumers by connecting them with the information they need to make better-informed decisions. The Answers Voice of Customer (VOC) Platform leverages the sizable reach of USA`s Top 10 Internet brand Answers.com (source: Quantcast), along with leading cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage and ResellerRatings, to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights and deliver content that powers the customer experience.

 

About the Person

Jinlin Wang is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Answers, leading the company`s people and technology operations. In this role, he oversees recruitment, human capital management as well as the technology that powers top Internet brand Answers.com and Answers Cloud Services, an integrated suite of world-class VOC solutions. Prior to joining Answers, he was a principal development manager of Online Service Division at Microsoft, responsible for contextual ads modeling and algorithmic development. Prior to Microsoft, he was a director of engineering at Yahoo where he led the research and development of analytics and quality-based pricing for paid/sponsored search (multi-billion dollar) marketplace. Over the four years at Yahoo, he led the development and operations in the following areas: the Yahoo direct marketing system (DMS) that transacts and optimizes multi-million dollar annual advertising spend, the content recommendation engine for online users, the recommendation engine and media buying optimization for large display advertisers, and the optimal delivery of display advertising. He is the lead or co-inventor of four patent applications of innovative online monetization methods. Prior to embarking on consumer internet and online monetization, Dr. Wang spent eight years at PeopleSoft and subsequently Oracle managing and developing optimization technology and its applications. He was a founding manager of the PeopleSoft Optimization Group and led the team in conceiving, prototyping, building, and growing the PeopleSoft Optimization Framework (POF), the industry’s first patented design and run-time framework for cost effective development and deployment of optimization applications. He is a co-inventor of the patented framework.

 

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