Ilya Rivkin

Co-Founder & CTO, PodPlay Technologies

Mr. Rivkin is a Co-Founder and CTO of PodPlay Technologies responsible for managing our Product and Engineering teams. He joined PingPod Inc., the autonomous table tennis venue network where PodPlay’s technology was developed, in July 2021 and served as its CTO from December 2022 until PodPlay was spun out as a standalone company in August 2025. Mr. Rivkin previously served as Head of Mobile for Marcus, a Goldman Sachs fintech app, from July 2017 to July 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Rivkin worked at R/GA, where he was the Technology Lead for the Nike+ Running application from 2012 to 2014 and the Equinox iOS applications from 2014 to 2016. Mr. Rivkin received a BS in Electrical Engineering from RIT.