Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO at Gradient, who most recently led Studio AI at Netflix and was an architect of early domain expert LLMs for content production and intelligence. Prior to joining Netflix, Chris held a variety of leadership roles at Pinterest, Opendoor, and Meta. Chris started his career in finance and holds a dual bachelors degree in computer science and business, and a master degree in computer science from UPenn.

Mark is the Co-founder and Chief Architect at Gradient. Prior to Gradient, Mark led ML teams at Splunk and Box, leading research on streaming ML transitioning over from a nearly decade long career as a quantitative portfolio manager at companies like Stevens Capital, Paloma Partners, and TD Securities. Mark holds a dual bachelors degree in mathematics and finance from UPenn.

Forrest is the Co-Founder and CTO at Gradient. Forrest was previously an engineering lead at Google building distributed serverless ML systems, and scaling out their technology to support exabyte-scale processing. He was also a founding engineer at Table, pioneering causal inference modeling for e-commerce. Forrest holds a bachelors degree in computer science from MIT.

Tim leads our strategic business development efforts for financial services - joining us with over 20+ years in capital markets, market structure and client management. Prior to Gradient, Tim worked at companies like Templum, OptimX, and Liquidnet. Tim holds a doctorate in business administration from Fox School of Business at Temple University and a masters and bachelors in business from Hofstra University.

Tiffany oversees all of our engineering and operational efforts here at Gradient. Prior to Gradient, making her way from Lumos where she led consumer product and dev platform. Prior to Gradient, Tiffany spent 6 years leading product and ML engineering at Opendoor - from Series B through IPO. Tiffany holds a bachelors degree in chemical-biological engineering and biology from MIT.

Morgan joins us with over 25+ years of experience in financial services and is responsible for Gradient's overall strategy in financial services. Before joining Gradient, Morgan held several leadership positions, including serving as the Head of Strategy and Emerging Technologies at WisdomTree, where he focused on growth, and as a founding partner at Bendigo Partners. Morgan holds a bachelors in economics from Colgate University.

As Gradient's Chief Scientist, Leo leads our research team. Prior to Gradient, Leo led CloudTruck's ML and data science orgs pioneering applied ML to operational challenges. Prior to CloudTrucks, Leo held leadership roles across Opendoor, Optimizely, and Disney. Leo holds a bachelors degree in economics from Stanford, as well as a masters and PhD in statistics from Stanford.

Eric is our founding GTM hire and Head of Sales at Gradient. Eric joins us from Google Cloud and Looker where he was an early-stage sales hire, key contributor, and leader across enterprise & strategic sales roles, channel partnerships, and international expansion. Eric holds a BA from Santa Clara University.

Brenda is a product lead at Gradient, joining us from nearly a decade at Microsoft working on bringing cloud services and solutions to large enterprises across Azure. Most recently, Brenda spent a few years leading product in the decentralized data storage space, focusing on storage protocol design and node provider software. Brenda holds a bachelors in computer science from CMU and a masters in information systems from the University of Washington.