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Abhay Agarwal
Abhay Agarwal is the founder and CEO of Poly, the intelligent cloud file browser built to replace Finder and File Explorer for the AI era. A former Microsoft Research AI fellow and Stanford d.school lecturer, he came up through engineering at UC Berkeley and design at Stanford, then founded the human-centered AI consultancy Polytopal before pivoting it into a Y Combinator-backed startup. In November 2025, Poly emerged from stealth with $8M in seed funding led by Felicis, powered by its own Polyembed-v1 embedding model. Agarwal describes the product as 'an LLM with infinite context from your life,' and frames his life's work around a theory he calls Post-Cognitive Design.
Joe Burton
Joe Burton is the Chief Executive Officer of Reputation, the San Ramon-based reputation experience management platform. A career technologist who started as a software engineer and was acquired into Cisco in 2001, he went on to lead Plantronics (later Poly) as CEO, then Telesign, before taking the helm at Reputation in October 2023. His operating range spans big data, machine learning, SaaS, unified communications, and IoT.