Our Management Team

Jalal Nasir is the Founder and CEO of Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform.

A 15-year veteran in the battle against fraud, Nasir was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team.

Prior to founding Pixalate, Nasir held various product leadership roles building ad tech and enterprise privacy technologies for companies including Microsoft and TRUSTe.

Amin Bandeali is the CTO of Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform.

A 15-year veteran in the battle against fraud, Amin leads the Pixalate software development team where he has created most granular and accredited fraud protection, brand safety and viewability technology.

Prior to founding Pixalate, Amin held various software engineering roles including Geeknet, Internet Brands and others.

He holds a MSE degree in Software Engineering from the California State University, Fullerton, and he currently resides in Dallas, TX. 

As the VP of Engineering at Pixalate, Jason oversees the development of core components of Pixalate’s Media Rating Terminal Suite. He enjoys designing and implementing intuitive and exciting user interfaces as well as writing, testing, and debugging user interface code. Jason is adept at rapidly prototyping and iterating user interface elements and workflows working with designers, producers, and artists to implement UI features

He studied Physics at Orange Coast College, and he currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Dave brings over 25 years of experience in Enterprise IT Architecture to Pixalate's information ecosystem. Since the founding of Pixalate, Dave has set the direction for innovation with an emphasis on adaptability, speed to market, and customer driven delivery.

Certified as a Gartner Enterprise Architect and graduate of Pepperdine University's School of Business, Dave has worked with IBM and other Fortune 500 companies as well as startups before joining Pixalate. His extensive background in hardware, software, and business provides a multidisciplinary perspective to infrastructure development and operations.

Dave is a West Coast native and grandfather of two, who enjoys the warm weather, diversity, and abundant opportunities of Southern California.

As SVP of Operations & Legal Affairs Pixalate, Jay is actively involved with its global expansion efforts. As head of Legal Affairs, he oversees its intellectual property portfolio and enterprise negotiations from a legal perspective. Jay is also responsible for the company’s information security and privacy compliance globally.

Jay joined Pixalate in April 2018 from Cox Automotive, where he oversaw the legal team responsible for data strategy and intellectual property. He joined Cox via its 2014 acquisition of Xtime; a SaaS company focused on customer retention in the automotive industry. Before Xtime, Jay provided operational and legal services for Turn, Shopkick, SugarCRM, VA Linux Systems, and IBM.

Jay holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Tufts University and a J.D. from the American University, Washington College of Law.

As the Chief Data Scientist at Pixalate, Angelos oversees the development of Pixalate’s Invalid Traffic (IVT) detection and prevention platform and various other data science projects that have become core components of Pixalate’s Media Rating Terminal Suite. He enjoys conducting R&D to uncover new types of sophisticated IVT. Angelos has extensive academic research experience in modeling and analyzing computer network traffic, where he has published more than 20 research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and he currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

As VP of Finance and Operations, Dan is responsible for all aspects of Pixalate’s financial planning & analysis, accounting, and treasury functions. In addition to tracking the company’s financial performance, Dan is also responsible for ensuring that the company’s financial position is always healthy to fulfill and exceed the expectation of Pixalate’s customers.

Over the past 15 years, Dan has worked with companies across many different industries, helping them unlock value through deep-dive financial analysis; he has also worked with many tech startups to build out the financial systems and processes successfully.

Dan graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Economics and Statistics from the George Washington University. He currently lives outside of Dallas, TX.

As VP of Operations, Ronnie oversees operations focusing on cross-functional collaboration, technical account management, and executive support to carry out company strategies and objectives. He directs the Pixalate technical support teams’ daily workflow and provides strategic guidance in the direction of select enterprise client accounts.

Having worked in diverse verticals over the years, he acquired a well-rounded view of business and technical processes. He collaborates closely with Pixalate’s leaders to make informed decisions on day-to-day operations and defining company direction. His contributions include strategic data-driven planning and thoughtful management of operations at Verizon Media, Viant (MySpace), and the University of Southern California.

Ronnie holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. He fills up his backpack in his spare time and goes out into the world, taking snapshots and exploring the local cuisine.

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As Senior Director of Customer Success, Diane oversees the Western Region’s team effort to support and grow relationships with some of Pixalate’s most prominent and most visible customers. She thrives on ensuring that Pixalate’s solutions help our Enterprise and Strategic clients solve the complex problems of ad fraud encountered in the industry.

Before her position at Pixalate, Diane amassed 15+ years of experience working in ad tech in management roles spanning Ad Operations, Programmatic Strategy, and Business Development.

Diane, a Los Angeles native, currently lives in Thousand Oaks, CA, with her husband, daughter, three cats, and two fish.

As SVP of Public Policy, Ads Privacy and COPPA Compliance at Pixalate, Allison engages with global policymakers and stakeholders to advocate for consumer privacy, particularly as it relates to COPPA and advertising. She is a thought leader at Pixalate for critical issues at the intersection of product, policy, and privacy.

Allison has extensive experience leading privacy and data security investigations at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including a COPPA settlement with TikTok and a privacy and data security settlement with Snapchat. Most recently, Allison worked on international privacy policy with a focus on APAC as an attorney in the FTC's Office of International Affairs.

Allison holds a JD from the University of Virginia, and currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three kids.

Tyler oversees Pixalate’s content and marketing research efforts to grow the brand and share Pixalate’s ad fraud data and research with the industry at large. Tyler specializes in telling stories with data and simplifying complex topics to help educate readers, particularly with new and emerging tech.

Prior to joining Pixalate, Tyler led content marketing efforts at Accordant Media. Earlier in his career, Tyler was a reporter and editor at MediaPost, where he was one of the first media trade journalists to extensively cover the programmatic advertising industry.

Tyler lives in St. Louis, MO, with his wife, daughter, and pets.

As Director of Solutions Engineering, Faizan oversees product integrations and client onBoarding focusing on designing technical solutions and partnerships with Third-party platforms to integrate Pixalate products. Supporting sales, technical account management, and engineering teams in creating strategies and processes to make the client successful. In the fast-paced innovative Ad tech industry, he brings the latest Ad EcoSystem and Ad Operations knowledge and expertise to design integrated solutions that fit uniquely to each client’s needs. He enjoys challenges against Fraud and participating in IAB working groups to define industry standards. 

Over the past 13+ years Faizan has worked in strategic and management roles across the AdTech and software industry, His extensive background in Ad Operations, Software, Analytics, and technology management provides an interdisciplinary approach for critical solutions and managing innovative projects. Prior to Pixalate Faizan has worked at companies including TripIt, Geeknet, and others.

Faizan holds M.S. in Engineering and Technology Management from The George Washington University and B.S.E. in Software engineering. He enjoys nature and landscape photography in free time and currently resides in Redmond, WA.

As Director of Platform Sales at Pixalate, Derek does whatever it takes to make our product sales and business partnerships successful. He is responsible for developing and initiating platform and publisher growth by managing new and existing relationships with our industry-leading SSP, DSP, and publisher partners.

With nearly a decade of experience in adTech, having worked in Sales, Account Management, and Ad Operations roles, Derek has helped his clients and company obtain impressive performance. Previous clients Derek has worked with include Facebook, Instagram, Pandora, Snap, and many more.

Derek holds a BA in Advertising from San Diego State University and is based out of Pixalate's West Coast office.

 Amanda Binns is a leader in the programmatic industry with a history of building world class go to market teams and scaling new product adoption and growth. She brings a unique combination of both demand and supply knowledge having worked at leading DSP and SSP technology companies in Silicon Valley as well as partnering with many of the world's largest publishers, advertisers and agencies.  

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As a Director of Customer Success at Pixalate, Alec supports many of the company’s strategic and enterprise clients, focusing on performance, preventative care, and ecosystem analysis. Well-versed in the solution suite, he is accountable for identifying any gaps that Pixalate tools, support, or education can aid in filling. As the liaison for the client, Alec collaborates with Pixalate internal teams to ensure client satisfaction.

Just under a decade in the industry, Alec has held many positions within the advertising industry, the majority of that time spent in adTech. Spanning across the ecosystem, he has worked for such organizations as Universal McCann, R2i, YuMe, and RhythmOne prior to Pixalate, supplying a variety of client perspectives.  

Alec holds a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California and currently lives in San Jose, California with his fiance and pup. 

As a Director at Pixalate, Umer manages the company’s European and Middle Eastern clients. His role is to ensure that clients receive the exceptional service that they deserve and to develop and implement client service strategies. Due to Pixalate's international development, his focus is on regional growth and stability outside of the US.

With over 4 years of specialist experience in the Verification industry, Umer has developed his expertise and understanding of the market as well as the demands of the clients as the industry evolves. His past experiences in Technical and Client Services at Videology, Oracle Data Cloud and Integral Ad Science have created the foundation necessary to understand and enhance the level of service that all clients deserve.

Umer holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bath and currently resides in London.