Omar Tawakol

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Mr. Omar Tawakol serves as Board Member at LiveRamp Holdings. Mr. Tawakol has served as vice president & general manager of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex Customer Experience business unit since 2019. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in leveraging conversational artificial intelligence which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to founding Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) as senior vice president and general manager of' Oracle America Inc.'s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, Inc., a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai's acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior roles include chief advertising officer and general manager of Medio Systems, Inc. (acquired by Nokia); and CEO of CoRelation (acquired by Audience Science). He currently serves on the advisory board of Decibel, a venture capital firm, and is a former director of PlaceIQ, a data and technology provider of marketing solutions based on location data. Mr. Tawakol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, one in Engineering and the other in Computer Science.