San Jose

Ivan Davtchev is the lead product manager for Yahoo Search and is primarily responsible for core areas including relevance, content crawl, and indexing. Prior to joining Yahoo in 2008, Ivan held various product management roles at Google Inc. He helped Google build its presence and double market share in Russia and led product management in European and Middle East emerging markets. He was also responsible for the rollout of Google search technologies in 40 international markets. Previously, Ivan was a program manager at Microsoft, where he worked on security and cryptography products. He holds a computer science degree from Harvard University and is the author of multiple patents.