Mark Kantor

Mark Kantor currently serves as Head of Product at Tinder, where he leads cross-functional teams in product, design, revenue, trust & safety, and research to create features that help people form real connections. He also led a central innovation team at Match Group focused on integrating emerging technologies across the portfolio. Mark has been a serial entrepreneur and product builder for more than 20 years, focusing on the development of consumer apps. Before joining Match Group, Mark co-founded Yellowbrick, a startup that builds social tech products for retail investors, where he developed several AI tools that process and recommend news and investment decisions. This includes an AI feature used by 100K+ subscribers that summarizes and prioritizes hundreds of stock ideas daily. Mark also spent six years at Zynga as their General Manager/Head of Growth, where he shipped more than 20 games, grew the Zynga audience by millions of DAU, led partnerships with Facebook and Snapchat, and designed new ways for the company to ideate, validate, build, and grow products. Prior to Zynga, Mark spent more than a decade as an entrepreneur, building and running his own companies. One of his initial successes was a social creativity app called Graffiti, which grew to over 25 million users and reached its first million DAU in less than a week. Throughout his career, Mark has built dozens of products, including chat, social, and gaming apps. Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in International Business from Brandeis University.