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Karen Gondoly
Karen Gondoly is the CEO of Leostream Corporation, the Boston-area company whose vendor-neutral connection broker and gateway software quietly runs the remote desktops of Hollywood studios, oil rigs, trading floors, and government agencies. An MIT-trained aeronautical engineer who once left tech to become a head pastry chef, she answered a Craigslist ad for a technical writing gig, was offered a product manager role instead, and rose to run the company by 2016. Under her leadership Leostream won a 2022 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy and stayed cash-flow positive without new funding since 2008.
Leostream Corporation
Leostream Corporation is a Boston-based software company that builds a vendor-neutral connection broker and remote desktop access platform. Its software maps end users to the right computing resource - a desktop, workstation, or GPU instance - whether that resource lives in a data center, on a physical machine, or across AWS, Azure, and OpenStack clouds. Founded in 2002 and led since 2016 by CEO Karen Gondoly, Leostream serves financial services, government and defense, media and entertainment, and oil and gas customers who need secure, single-pane management of hybrid work environments. Its platform won an Engineering Emmy in 2022.