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Jon Toor Has Spent Four Decades Making Storage Sound Urgent
Before AI needed data lakes, Jon Toor was already translating hard drives, virtualized I/O and object storage into reasons to care. His career is a lesson in staying with one difficult industry long enough to watch its quiet machinery become the main event.
Brad Murdoch Is Betting the Help Desk’s Future Lives Behind Your Firewall
After two decades around B2B software and a string of acquired companies, Deskpro CEO Brad Murdoch is making a quieter AI pitch: useful automation, human judgment and infrastructure the security team can actually approve.
David Aronchick
David Aronchick is the co-founder and CEO of Expanso, the Seattle company commercializing Bacalhau, an open-source platform that moves computation to where data already lives instead of hauling data to the cloud. A 4x founder, he helped launch Google Kubernetes Engine, co-founded the Kubeflow machine learning project, led open source ML strategy at Microsoft Azure, and ran Compute over Data at Protocol Labs. His through-line is a stubborn belief that technology is not neutral and that distributed systems should make computing cheaper, more private, and more useful at the edge.
Tuan Cao
Tuan Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Genetica and LIFE AI, biotech companies building AI-driven precision health for Asian populations. A Cornell-trained computer scientist who once redesigned Google's Ads reporting engine, he left a comfortable Silicon Valley career to decode genomes built for the nearly one billion people of East Asian descent that Western genetic tools serve poorly. His current venture, LIFE AI, is a Singapore-based foundational AI platform he calls the Intelligence Layer of Human Health, securing 15+ petabytes of genomic data on-chain and aiming to let people own and benefit from their own genetic data.