Rob Leathern

Founder

2023 - Current

Trust2.ai provides consulting on product management, privacy, trust, identity, safety and security. Clients include large publicly-traded companies, tech startups and financial/banking/insurance firms alike.

Investor, Advisor, Mentor

2005

Investor in or advisor to various startups, funds, or limited partnerships including NotCommon, Climate Draft, V1.VC, Teambuilder Ventures, Fakespot, Anonym, Abovo, Handipoints (acquired by Slide/Google), Spartan Beverages, Inadco, Alt12 Apps (acquired by The Honest Company), Chintano and others.

Vice President of Product Management

2021 - 2023

I led the product team for the company's Privacy and Data Protection Office and worked closely with engineering, legal, regulatory, design and product teams across the company on privacy and security issues - including Ads, Search, YouTube, Android/Play, DeepMind, Brain, Cloud/Workspace, etc.

Senior Director of Product Management

2017 - 2020

I led the product team for Business Integrity at Facebook from its founding within the Ads and Business Platform/Products group. We worked to enforce ads and business policies across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products. Business Integrity prevents abuse and removes bad actors from the platform, and provides ads- and data transparency tools and controls. I have frequently engaged with regulators, media and the public to provide context on these policies and programs.

Board Member

2016 - 2020

A 501c3, 300 Day's first project was 300daysofRun.com - where you could connect your Strava account and run a mile a day for 300 days in the year, while supporting a good cause you chose (via CrowdRise).

Mentor

2014 - 2017

Founder and CEO

2016 - 2017

Optimal.com made tools to help ​people filter advertising while still paying content creators. We sold the DNS and web proxy technology we had built to Sovrn

Board Member

2013 - 2015

Founder and CEO

2008 - 2014

Optimal was an enterprise social media analytics and advertising software company and one of Facebook’s and Twitter’s top ads API partners by spend, running campaign optimization for many of their 20 largest advertisers. Optimal automated the process of helping Fortune 1000 advertisers make and execute better media buying and audience targeting decisions at scale. Optimal raised $5.1 million and was acquired by Brand Networks in October 2013 for $35 million.

COO and Consultant

2006 - 2007