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John Merrells

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Delray Beach, Florida

Education

  • Pathwise Leadership Development

    (2015 - 2022)

  • Hoffman Institute

    (2016 - 2016)

  • Bachelor of Science - BS

    (1988 - 1992)

Work Experience

2018

  • CPO/CTO

    2023

    AI Voice Agent for Quick Service Restaurants.

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2023

2014

  • Mentor, EIR, Advisor

    2014

2021 - 2024

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2024

    "Beat the Street" with advanced investment strategies, based on data-driven algorithmic trading of stocks and crypto.

2021 - 2024

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2024

    Building a global marketplace for software engineers, because talent is everywhere and opportunity is not.

2020 - 2023

  • Co-Founder, Board Member

    2020 - 2023

    Holonic builds product development teams for startups. We meet the resourcing needs of product and engineering leaders with fully cohered and aligned squads of product developers. Our team of experienced engineering, product, and people leaders has codified decades of team-building experience into a repeatable process for forging a group of software engineers into a high-performing product development team.

2019 - 2020

  • CPO

    2019 - 2020

    Sight Machine revolutionizes manufacturing operations to achieve continuous breakthroughs in productivity, profitability, and sustainability. We change the game for people who make things so they can improve people’s lives, their communities, and the environment. Our goal is to unlock the next level of efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability for a large part of the global economy.

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2019

    ALICE combines a first-of-its-kind construction planning platform with a powerful AI engine to help you digitize your firm's "way to build" and save big on any construction project.

2015 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2019

    Yotascale, a leader in cost management for AWS, provides intelligence and proactive, actionable insights to cloud operations, optimizing the infrastructure to meet business needs. Yotascale software uses AI to optimize cloud operations for reliability, visibility and cost savings. By using proprietary machine learning algorithms to process millions of data signals, Yotascale is providing contextually relevant, cost anomaly detection and recommendations that can be acted upon immediately.

2015 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2019

    Architect of automated penetration testing system for web vulnerability scanning.

2014 - 2018

  • Advisor

    2014 - 2018

    While advising Shape, I designed a management system for its network of managed proxy servers. I wrote the product requirements and architected the system.