About

Amit Dayal is a seasoned product leader with over 31 years of experience in building and delivering innovative products in diverse domains such as mobile services, e-commerce, adtech, platforms, and e-learning. Currently, he serves as the Vice President and General Manager of Adobe Digital Learning, Publishing, and Printing Business at Adobe, where he leads a global team responsible for a $250MM SaaS business unit with thousands of enterprise, SME, education, and government customers across major geographies. Amit has a passion for product excellence and taking new ideas to market. He has worked for many years in Silicon Valley at both startups and large tech companies and has spent over a decade building and leading strong product teams in Bangalore. In a past life, he did serious hands-on work on parallel Unix kernels. Prior to Adobe, Amit served as the Senior Vice President of Mobile Services and Platforms at Samsung, where he led a large product and engineering organization that built and grew multiple mobile platforms and services. His team built from scratch a programmatic supply-side platform (SSP) deployed globally, Samsung Pay India's first tokenized credit card payment system and one of the earliest UPI mobile apps, a new short-video curation system/mobile app, a new mobile analytics & engagement platform, and Samsung Mall, an e-commerce app that enabled visual search and purchase across multiple merchants. Along with his vertical responsibilities, he also led product management at Samsung Bangalore and drove new mobile monetization initiatives for the Indian market. Before Samsung, Amit was the Vice President of Engineering for the Search Division at Yahoo, where he led engineering for the entire Yahoo Small Business business unit, including one of the largest SaaS e-commerce platforms on the planet, and an open apps marketplace for commerce. Amit holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BE in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He also attended Air Force School in Delhi. Amit's technical expertise includes mobile, search, and product management. He is a product leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative products that delight customers and drive business growth.