Vivek Patel

Vivek Patel was a former Chief Product Officer at Yelp. Vivek joined Yelp’s product management team in 2009 and led international product expansion. As VP of Business Products, he is now responsible for building Yelp’s revenue-generating products. Prior to joining Yelp, Vivek was Director of Product Management at SugarSync, an online backup and synchronization service. Vivek began his career as an entrepreneur and co-founded a company that developed Blazer, one of the first mobile web browsers for PalmOS. The company was acquired by Handspring and Blazer shipped as the default web browser on Treo smartphones. Vivek received a B.S. in computer science and a M.A. in learning, design, and technology from Stanford University.