# Ted Elliott

> Ted Elliott is the New Orleans-based chief executive of Copado, an enterprise software company focused on DevOps for business applications. After building Jobscience for 18 years and selling it to Bullhorn in 2018, he joined Copado later that year and helped take the Madrid-born company through international expansion, a $140 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, and a shift toward AI-assisted software delivery. His recurring test for technology is unusually human: releases should be safer, work should be easier to verify, and the people responsible for deployment should be able to go home on time.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Copado
- **Organizations:** Copado, Jobscience, Bullhorn, Eximias Pharmaceuticals, OPV Lifescience Partners, Washington and Lee University J. Lawrence Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** History, Washington and Lee University, Law studies focused on securities, venture capital and intellectual property, University of San Francisco School of Law
- **Known for:** Built and led Jobscience for 18 years before its acquisition by Bullhorn in March 2018., Helped scale Copado from its post-Series A stage into a global enterprise software company., Led Copado during its $140 million Series C at a reported $1.2 billion valuation in 2021.

## Career timeline

- **Before 1999** — Worked as a biotechnology recruiter while attending law school, later served as general counsel for Eximias Pharmaceuticals and became a partner at OPV Lifescience Partners.
- **1999** — Started Jobscience, a recruitment software company.
- **2010** — Pivoted Jobscience onto Salesforce, where it became one of the earliest independent software vendors in the ecosystem.
- **2018-03** — Sold Jobscience to Bullhorn.
- **2018-11** — Joined Copado as chief executive and board director.
- **2021-09** — Copado raised a $140 million Series C at a reported $1.2 billion valuation and acquired robotic-testing company Qentinel during its breakthrough year.
- **2023-2025** — Led Copado’s push into AI-assisted DevOps as the company expanded its platform, community and public-sector compliance credentials.
- **2026** — Published a candid account of Copado’s early AI support experiment and argued that AI-generated software requires stronger verification, governance and human oversight.

## Achievements

- Built and led Jobscience for 18 years before its acquisition by Bullhorn in March 2018.
- Helped scale Copado from its post-Series A stage into a global enterprise software company.
- Led Copado during its $140 million Series C at a reported $1.2 billion valuation in 2021.
- Built sales, consulting and engineering teams in cloud SaaS and the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Serves on the advisory board of Washington and Lee University’s J. Lawrence Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship.
- Has written publicly about practical governance and verification for AI-generated software.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Contributed a Forbes Technology Council observation that security succeeds when developers do not work around the controls, arguing that unusable complexity is security theater.
- **2026-09** — Used his LinkedIn presence to focus on governed AI agents, human approval and traceable software changes around Dreamforce and Copado’s Agentia Headless work.
- **2026-03** — Published an account of Copado’s early AI support effort and argued for verification, stronger quality gates, clear permissions and human checkpoints in agent-driven development.
- **2025-11** — Published a LinkedIn article framing enterprise AI adoption around context, security and AI-driven testing.
- **2025-06** — Discussed the likely effect of agentic AI on entry-level Salesforce roles in an interview with Salesforce Ben.

## Links

- Website: https://www.copado.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedelliott
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBGbCeQThsc

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Last updated: 2026-09-27