Philip Inghelbrecht

Philip Inghelbrecht is an entrepreneur, investor, founder, and CEO of Tatari, an advertising platform that allows brands and agencies to buy and measure TV ads across streaming TV, linear TV, and online video. Before Tatari, Philip was a founding key member and former president of TrueCar and a co-founder of Shazam.

In addition, he previously ran business development at Rockmelt (acquired by Yahoo) and led sports and entertainment partnerships for Google/YouTube. He also serves as the executive chairman of Boomerang.

Education

Inghelbrecht pursued his undergraduate studies in business engineering with a finance concentration at the University of Leuven from 1990 to 1994. As part of an exchange program, he spent six months at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany, sponsored by a European Union scholarship. Later, he earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business from 1998 to 2000, during which he was honored with the Fulbright Scholarship and the Amcham Gold Award.[1][2]

Career

In 1995, Philip Inghelbrecht started his career in investment banking at Bank Dewaay (later HSBC). From March 1996 to May 1998, he worked as a derivatives trader managing the bank's $2 billion EMTN program.[3]

In December 1999, Philip Inghelbrecht co-founded Shazam with Chris Barton and was involved in all aspects of the company's operations.[4] In March 2018, Apple Inc. acquired Shazam, recognizing its technology and potential for integration within Apple's ecosystem.[5][6][7]

In 2005, Inghelbrecht joined Google's video division and transferred to YouTube following the acquisition in 2006. At YouTube, he oversaw the sports and entertainment department (Discovery, NBA, etc.) as well as syndication and copyright management.[8]