Ismail Elshareef
Chief Product Officer in Los Angeles, CA
Ismail Elshareef
Chief Product Officer in Los Angeles, CA
I'm a business-oriented product and technical leader with a proven record of turning high-uncertainty opportunities with strong customer pull into highly adopted products that deliver lasting business results.
As Chief Product Officer at CarGurus, I'm leading the company's shift from a lead-gen funnel to an AI-powered marketplace that spans the full car-buying and selling journey. We're building insight-driven dealer solutions for sourcing, pricing, and marketing; developing conversational, stateful search to connect consumers with the right car at the right dealership; and building the capabilities that enable teams to consistently ship differentiated, customer-first products.
Before CarGurus, I reset and scaled the product, data, and engineering organizations as CPO at OneFootball, driving a strategic reorientation that grew identified fans from a few thousand to over 30 million registered users. As CPO at UpKeep, I guided the evolution from a single-product app to a multi-product enterprise platform, doubling recurring revenue in 18 months while building the team from scratch. Earlier in my career, I rebuilt teams and launched platforms at Ticketmaster (introducing Verified Fan, Smart Queue, and an API-first ecosystem that powered innovation at scale) and at Edmunds (where open APIs unlocked new revenue streams through strategic partnerships).
What defines my work:
- Creating net-new products from ambiguity, anchored in strong customer pull, that simplify complexity and generate sustainable demand
- Leading organizational resets by realigning strategy, product focus, and execution to unlock accelerated growth
- Building product, data, and technical teams with a track record of turning conviction into measurable business impact
Across automotive, entertainment, sports, and B2B platforms, I've delivered products used by millions worldwide and guided organizations through major inflection points — proving that sustainable growth comes from pairing strong customer pull with technical depth and business discipline.