Our Team
Meet the team that's responsible for the magic behind Gradient.
Chris Chang
Co-Founder & CEO
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.
Tiffany Peng
VP of Engineering & COO
As VP of Engineering, Tiffany leads all of our engineering efforts here at Gradient and came 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.
Nghi Nguyen
ML/AI Engineer
Nghi is a ML engineer at Gradient and has spent more than a decade in machine learning across companies like Meta, A9.com (Amazon), and Splunk. Prior to his career in tech, Nghi was a researcher and mathematician at the US Department of Defense. Nghi holds a bachelors, masters, and PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley.
Jeff Ye
Business Operations Lead
Jeff is a business operations lead at Gradient, joining us after nearly a decade in various analytics, finance, GTM, and product roles at Segment, Google, and OpenDoor. Prior to shifting his focus to tech, Jeff spent several years in private equity and management consulting. Jeff holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Harvard University.
Rashi Singhania
Director of Demand Generation
Rashi leads our growth and demand generation efforts here at Gradient. Rashi joins us from years of experience at Google, Flipkart and early stage startups such as Strivr and BioRender - building out demand gen functions and ABM programs from 0 to 1. Rashi holds an undergraduate degree from St. Xavier's College and an MBA from University of Canterbury.
Stewie Zhu
Global Partnerships Advisor
Stewie is our Global Partnerships Advisor, ensuring deep collaboration with international institutions. As a successful entrepreneur, Stewie has co-founded multiple startups and achieved two notable exits in the FinTech and Blockchain sectors. With over 12 years of experience as an active investor and advisor, Stewie brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to our team. He holds an MS degree from Yale, an MFE from Oxford University, and a PhD in finance from the London School of Economics.