The Trade Desk announced that Dave Pickles will step down as Chief Technology Officer on September 29, 2023. Pickles will also step down from his role on the company?s Board of Directors. Although he is retiring from these day-to-day roles, Pickles will continue as a long-term advisor to the company.

Along with the company?s CEO, Jeff Green, Pickles co-founded The Trade Desk in 2009. He joined the Board of Directors in 2021. In his role as CTO, Pickles has overseen all aspects of the company?s demand-side platform, including engineering, product innovation and data science.

In addition, he has been a leader in industry-wide initiatives to improve security, privacy and trust across the digital advertising ecosystem, most recently with Unified ID 2.0. Over the last two years, he has worked closely with Sairaj Uddin, SVP of Engineering, and Gruia Pitigoi-Aron, SVP of Product, as they have assumed these leadership roles, reporting to Green.