Drew Bradstock

Drew Bradstock built his reputation as one of the most respected product leaders on the supply side of programmatic advertising during a long tenure at Index Exchange, where he rose to SVP of Product. In that role, he was a central architect of the exchange's evolution from a traditional ad marketplace into a modern, transparent programmatic infrastructure, championing header bidding adoption, supply path optimization (SPO), and publisher-first technology at a time when the industry was grappling with opacity and inefficiency. His influence was grounded in deep operational expertise, making him a trusted voice in trade press and at major industry conferences on topics ranging from auction dynamics to identity solutions and the future of open web monetization. At Index Exchange, Bradstock was a consistent advocate for cleaner supply chains and greater accountability between buyers and sellers in programmatic. He contributed meaningfully to industry conversations around cookieless identity, the evolving role of SSPs, and the mechanics of real-time bidding infrastructure. His work helped position Index Exchange as a technically credible and editorially independent alternative in a consolidating marketplace. Bradstock has since transitioned out of AdTech, joining Google Cloud as Senior Director of Product with responsibility for GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Serverless compute products. This move reflects both his deep technical product background and the broader convergence of cloud infrastructure and AI-era computing, where his experience scaling high-throughput, low-latency systems in programmatic advertising translates directly to the demands of modern cloud-native workloads.

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