Wei Gao

Chief Digital and Product Officer

2024 - Current

Re:Build Manufacturing is a family of industrial businesses combining cutting-edge enabling technologies, operational superiority and strategic M&A to build America’s next generation industrial company. Our mission is to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming decades, creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate facilities. Our work includes highly complex systems and products, and we seek to develop and leverage advanced software, digital, AI, and ML solutions to deliver superior results. My responsibilities include defining enterprise-wide new product development, developing technology and AI-based capabilities and efficiencies, growing various digital product lines, and collectively contributing to our mission of revitalizing US manufacturing industry.

Founding Member of the Advisory Board

2022

At Zero100, our mission is to close the gap between the importance, speed and complexity of today’s supply chain profession, and the outdated research and benchmarks that support it, to accelerate progress to Zero Percent Carbon, 100% Digital.

Board Member

2023

We are an online retailer for fashion loving 20-somethings around the world. Through our market-leading app and web experience, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of c.90,000 products, sourced from 850+ of the best global and local third-party brands, alongside our mix of fashion-led in-house labels including ASOS DESIGN, ASOS EDITION, ASOS 4505, Collusion,Reclaimed Vintage, Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT. We are mission-led, purpose-driven and guided by our values. We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. We aim to deliver a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of payment methods and hundreds of local delivery and returns options, dispatched from state of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany. All built to deliver on our purpose – to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be.

Executive Advisor

2023 - 2024

Venture Partner

2022 - 2024

Chief Operating Officer

2021 - 2022

VP/GM, WW Grocery, Multi-Channel Fulfillment, Distribution-as-a-Service

2020 - 2021

VP, Technical Advisor to CEO

2018 - 2020

Vice President, Forecasting

2017 - 2018

Director of Software Development, Forecasting

2015 - 2017

Director of Software Development, Network Topology Optimization

2014 - 2015

Sr. Manager, Software Development, Inventory Planning & Control

2010 - 2014

Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Kindle

2008 - 2010

Responsible for the delivery of next generation Kindle products and services. Proven track record of successfully launching new Kindle devices and international expansion.

Senior Technical Program Manager in eCommerce Platform Group

2005 - 2008

Responsible for several complex cross-functional IT projects on the Amazon eCommerce platform that lifted the company's bottom line, diversified product offerings and improved customer loyalty. Specializes in large scale projects that are tight on schedule and budget. Highly experienced in resource prioritization, negotiation, and all aspects of project lifecycle. Adept at product definition, system design, strategy execution for distributed software systems that require high scalability and availability. Obsessed about customer experience.

Senior Software Developer

2001 - 2005

Interfaced with customers to collect requirements and define functional specifications. Architected the main product which uses XML schema to facilitate online authoring and managing commercial real estate contracts. Implemented the server side functionalities and led the client side development.