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Tarek Najm is the Distinguished Engineer of Microsoft's Advertising & Business Intelligence Systems. Tarek's group is responsible for the vision, architecture and direction of Microsoft's next generation adCenter advertising platform. Tarek has been with Microsoft for 10 years during which he held several roles including: Senior Architect of large scale systems, Billing Group Manager, Director of Business Intelligence, Product Unit Manager of adCenter, General manager of all advertising systems including Display Advertising, Paid Search, Content Advertising and eMail Advertising platforms. Tarek is also Co-Founder and Co-Executive Sponsor of Microsoft AdCenter Incubation Labs, AdLab.
Tarek holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistical Analysis. He has over 17 years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Architecture Design. He is an expert in the design of large-scale Transactional Processing systems, Data Modeling, Distributed Systems, Massive Parallel Processing, and VLDB Data Warehousing systems.