Chief R&D Officer, Spotify
Gustav Söderström is Spotify’s Chief Research & Development Officer. He oversees the product, design, data, and engineering teams at Spotify and is responsible for Spotify’s product strategy. Mr. Söderström is also an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and sold startups in the technology space, including 13th Lab, a computer vision startup that he co-founded which was acquired by Facebook’s Oculus in 2014. Mr. Söderström also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of messaging startup Kenet Works which was acquired by Yahoo!, where he has previously worked as director of product and business development for Yahoo! Mobile from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Söderström holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and was voted the KTH Alumni of the year in 2019.