Management Team

Arturo Rodriguez has served as Aterian’s Chief Executive Officer since June 2024. Mr. Rodriguez served as the Company’s Co-Chief Executive Officer from July 2023 to June 2024. He also served as the Company’s CFO from March 2021 to June 2024. From September 2017 to March 2021, Mr. Rodriguez was Senior Vice President of Finance at Aterian. Prior to Aterian, Mr. Rodriguez spent five years as Chief Accounting Officer and Global Controller for Piksel, Inc. and also held the role of Interim Chief Operating Officer in his last year. From 2000 to 2011, Mr. Rodriguez was with the Atari Group where he held several financial leadership roles, most notably Acting Chief Financial Officer of Atari, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATAR) from 2007 to 2008 and Deputy CFO of Atari SA (Euronext: ATA) from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Rodriguez is a New York State CPA who holds a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University.

Phil Lepper has been Aterian's Chief Revenue Office since September 2023, following his role as Senior Vice President of Revenue which he held since January 2023. Mr Lepper joined Aterian in June 2021 as Vice President of Revenue. Prior to joining Aterian, Mr. Lepper served as the Senior Director of eCommerce at Packable from June 2020 until June 2021. Mr. Lepper previously worked at Oriental Trading Company as Head of Marketplace from April 2019 to June 2020 and at Spreetail as Director of New Channels from July 2018 until April of 2019. Mr. Lepper also previously held roles at Kaspien, Mister Car Wash and the Coca-Cola Company. Mr. Lepper holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Eastern Washington University.

Roi Zahut has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2019. Prior to joining Aterian, he served in a number of roles, including as the CTO of the Advanced Analytics global consulting team at IBM and as the architect of IBM Metropulse, a retail & CPG analytics platform, from October 2016 to January 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Zahut lived in Israel where he held senior technical, business and data science roles in startups and consulting companies including IBM Israel from January 2015 to October 2016, Brainbow Ltd from October 2013 to January 2015 and Matrix IT Ltd, an information technology company, from October 2008 to October 2011, working across industries (CPG, industrial and defense). Mr. Zahut also served in the Israeli Air Force from September 2005 to October 2008 where he obtained the rank of Sergeant First Class. Mr. Zahut holds an MSc in Neuroscience with distinction from Bar Ilan University.

Josh Feldman has served as Aterian's Chief Financial Officer since June 2024. From May 2022 to June 2024, Mr. Feldman served as the Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Feldman was the Head of Finance for Olivela, a luxury goods e-commerce company, from February 2021 to May 2022. Previously, he served as Vice President of Financial Operations for Hugo Boss North America from January 2018 to October 2020. From 2007 to 2018, Mr. Feldman held several senior finance roles at Saks Fifth Avenue and Hudson's Bay Company. Prior to joining Saks Fifth Avenue, he was an audit manager with KPMG. Mr. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from SUNY Albany and is a Certified Public Accountant in New York.