Digital Turbine appoints Ben John as CTO

Digital Turbine (APPS) announced the appointment of Ben John as the company’s CTO. Joining the company at a period of accelerating growth, Ben will lead DT’s global engineering, product architecture, data-first scaling, and AI-driven development to support its momentum. Ben’s career is defined by his ability to translate complex technology into real business outcomes. He has successfully built and scaled global engineering teams across multiple continents, navigated multi-billion dollar acquisitions, and built platforms that have shaped the global digital advertising and AI landscape. With over 20 years of experience, Ben brings deep expertise in building large-scale AI and advertising platforms. He most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Microsoft (MSFT) AI Copilot. Previously, he was CTO and co-founder of Xandr, serving as CTO until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2022. Prior to that he was CTO of AppNexus, the world’s largest independent programmatic marketplace for digital advertising including buy-side and sell-side advertising platforms. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in machine learning and big data mining and has served as Adjunct Faculty at New York University.