Leading the transition to MLSecOps.

Most recently, Ian was an Amazon Web Services Worldwide Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning responsible for go-to-market across the entire AWS portfolio reaching 100K customers. Prior to Amazon, he was Vice President of Machine Learning at Oracle. In this role, Ian oversaw the strategy for Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning products. Prior to Oracle, Ian was CEO and Founder of DataScience.com which was acquired by Oracle in May 2018. DataScience.com provided an industry-leading enterprise data science platform that combined the tools, libraries, and languages data scientists loved with the infrastructure and workflows their organizations needed. Forrester had ranked DataScience.com’s ML Ops platform as the number one solution in 2018. Earlier in his career, Ian was an executive at American Express, Sprint, and CEO of Sometrics. Sometrics launched the industry's first global virtual currency platform in 2008 and was acquired by American Express in 2011.

Prior to founding Protect AI with Mr. Swanson, D was the Global Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Solution Architects, under Mr. Swanson. His team was responsible for customer facing engineering resources that helped the AI/ML business of AWS become the largest AI/ML business in the world. Prior to Amazon, D was Sr. Vice President of Digital Strategy at Howard Hughes Corporation where D built an industry leading AI platform to price and model economics of illiquid assets using advanced ML techniques in 2015. Previous experiences included Sr. Vice President and Managing Director of Technology and Data Products at NYSE, which was acquired by ICE in May 2013. Prior to NYSE, D was at Intel Corporation for over 12 years where his roles included building the first financial services vertical team and delivering over $1B of annual revenue contribution from the group, Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to the global sales and marketing organization, and a variety of other leadership roles in product, sales, and marketing functions. 

Prior to founding Protect AI, Badar was the Director of Engineering at Oracle Cloud where he built the first ML service (OCI Data Science). His teams were responsible for multiple products such as ML Notebooks, Model Catalog, and Model Deployment. Prior, Badar was engineering lead at DataScience.com, acquired by Oracle, and had worked at Caltech on the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) project in collaboration with CERN, where he built high performance data transfer and storage tools for petabyte-scale data. Badar's research group at Caltech contributed to the Nobel prize winning Higgs boson discovery in 2012.

Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, a day one partner and true believer for developer first, crypto infra and SaaS founders. boldstart collaborates with technical founders well before writing their first line of code or making their first hires, leads pre-product rounds at company formation, and helps accelerate their path to product market fit.

Ed has been in the trenches with Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer (sold to Meta), BigID, Superhuman, Security Scorecard, Front and so many more from day one. Other notables where Ed is actively involved on the board as director or observer include Jit Security, Slim, Env0 and Spectro Cloud. Ed also co-founded MState in 2017, an enterprise blockchain lab in partnership with IBM, where seed investments include Fireblocks and Amberdata.

Prior to boldstart, Ed was a co-founder of Dawntreader Ventures where he led day one investments in Greenplum (sold to EMC, Pivotal - IPO), GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix), and LivePerson (IPO). He is a true partner from day one - helping bold founders start, scale, exit and have fun along the way.

Mark Kraynak is a technology executive, company builder, and erstwhile poet/engineer. 

He has held a number of marketing, product, corporate and development and strategy roles. Mark has led or co-led investments in At-Bay, Aqua Security,  Cato Networks, CipherTrace, Coin Metrics, EdgeImpulse, Exabeam, Silverfort and System, He has also been an advisor to Exabeam, Indegy, Kloudless, Trustar and Aqua Security.

Mark has led or co-led investments in At-Bay, CipherTrace, Integris, Indegy, Kloudless, Orkus, Petabyte, Silverfort, Trustar, EvidentID, and Aqua Security. He is currently also an advisor to Exabeam, Indegy, Kloudless, Aqua Security, and Trustar.

Earlier in his career, he provided technology architecture consulting for Fortune 500 clients with Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement.