Rob Wilk

Rob Wilk leads the advertising team at Microsoft and is responsible for building and scaling Microsoft’s search/native advertising offerings.

A nationally recognized media expert, Rob has spoken at Cannes, Advertising Week, Search Engine Strategies Conference, Search Marketing Expo Conference, and more.

At Microsoft, Rob manages the sales, marketing, operations, retail media and partnerships teams with more than 2,000 employees across the globe.

Rob has 25 years of advertising and media experience with the majority specifically focused on digital media and paid search on both the agency and publisher sides.

Before joining Microsoft, Rob was the founding Vice President of Sales at Foursquare, responsible for building the sales team and leading sales initiatives across the Foursquare brand and agency partners. Prior to Foursquare, Rob worked at Yahoo leading a team of US- and Canada-based employees tasked with driving optimal paid search performance for Yahoo’s biggest advertisers