Where does Benji Shomair work?

Benji Shomair is Venture Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc.

Where did Benji Shomair go to school?

Benji Shomair studied at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (MBA); Ivey Business School at Western University (HBA, General Management); McGill University (Biology).

Benji Shomair

Investor

Venture Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

San Francisco, California, United States

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About

Executive with extensive go-to-market and scaling experience at Facebook/Meta across ads, commerce, and messaging. Active investor and operator of online marketplaces and directories.

Experience

OpenAIVP Monetizationcurrent2025 — present
C100Charter Member2021 — 2026
FacebookVice President, Commerce Business2019 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
FacebookVice President Product Monetization and Marketing – Business Platform and Messaging2015 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
FacebookDirector of Global Accounts2014 — 2015Greater New York City Area
FacebookHead of Global Business Operations - Direct Sales and Partner Channels2011 — 2014
GopuffAdvisor2021 — 2022United States
Bain & CompanyPrincipal2002 — 2011
Hearst VenturesVenture Associate - Strategic Investments2007
The Bridgespan GroupSenior Associate Consultant2003 — 2004

Colleagues at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Carl Austin Rosen

General Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Connie Wang

Vice President at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Connor Cooley

Venture Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Daphne Che

Principal at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Howard Wolf

Investor at Streamlined Ventures

Lars Ahlstrom

CFO at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Matt Murphy

General Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Matthildur Árnadóttir

Associate at Electric Feel Ventures Llc

Frequently asked questions

Who is Benji Shomair?: Executive with extensive go-to-market and scaling experience at Facebook/Meta across ads, commerce, and messaging. Active investor and operator of online marketplaces and directories.
Where does Benji Shomair work?: Benji Shomair is Venture Partner at Electric Feel Ventures Llc.
Where did Benji Shomair go to school?: Benji Shomair studied at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (MBA); Ivey Business School at Western University (HBA, General Management); McGill University (Biology).

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Also attended Ivey Business School at Western University397

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Also attended McGill University755

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Shared employers

Also worked at OpenAI190

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock Pat GradyPartner at Sequoia Capital Greg BrockmanCo-founder & President of OpenAI Ilya SutskeverCo-founder of OpenAI; co-founder & CEO of Safe Superintelligence Aravind SrinivasCo-founder & CEO of Perplexity AI Dario AmodeiCo-founder & CEO of Anthropic

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Also worked at Facebook770

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders Fund Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder & CEO of Social Capital Jim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer Capital Reed HastingsCo-founder of Netflix Andy FangCo-founder & CTO of DoorDash Stanley TangCo-founder of DoorDash

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Also worked at Gopuff30

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Also worked at Bain & Company1,176

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