Michael Akkerman (he/him)

General Manager, Mobility - Uber

Michael is the GM, Mobility Advertising at Uber where he is responsible for both the vision and strategy for scaling Uber's nascent advertising business across the ride-hailing app that serves more than 130M MAUs globally and facilitates over 23M rides per day.

Michael has been in the advertising industry for nearly 20 years. Prior to Uber, Michael was Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Cardlytics, a digital advertising walled garden that allows advertiser-funded offers to reach 185M MAUs within the native environments of the world's largest banks. Before Cardlytics, Michael was the Global Head of Partnerships at Pinterest where his team oversaw growing and managing an ecosystem of 130+ strategic technology partners across commerce, data, measurement, and ads.