Julian Gay

Founder and CEO

2021

Cred Protocol provides credit data analytics derived from onchain activity. We're on a mission to scale trust and transparency in web3 by quantifying lending risk at scale, "FICO for crypto".

Founding Board Member (former Co-Chair)

2017

Non-profit with members including leading British tech entrepreneurs, execs and investors in the Bay Area and beyond. Working together to innovate, collaborate and inspire others.

Partner

2019

Venture building and advising new businesses enabling the future of work and future of finance.

Mentor

2018

Mentor

2015

Coaching founders in product strategy, go-to-market, enterprise sales and helping out with applicant screening.

Member

2020 - 2021

Community member and Membership DRI (Directly Responsible Individual).

General Manager, Appwise

2017 - 2019

Responsible for AppDirect product groups: - AppWise (formerly Xendo, Inc.): an Intelligent Workspace product comprised of unified search across 40+ enterprise cloud services, natural language queryting (NLP using BERT), realtime news feeds and message-based collaboration. - AppInsights (formerly Leftronic, Inc. YC ‘10): a data visualization platform enabling insights across diverse data sources. - ADLearner: AppDirect's Machine Learning/AI platform (inspired by Facebook's FBLearner) providing model training, evaluation and observability supporting cross-functional subsidiaries and business lines.

CEO and Co-founder

2013 - 2018

CEO and co-founder of Xendo. Our mission was to build an "executive assistant for everyone" and we went to market as one of the first cloud-based enterprise search services - unifying different enterprise applications into a single, searchable view. The product was launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2014 and the company was acquired in December 2015 by AppDirect, where it continued to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Senior Product Manager - Group Strategy and Development

2009 - 2013

Intrapreneur responsible for new product development and strategy supporting Orange's Enterprise business units. Advised Orange Executive Committee members on Enterprise product strategy. - Prototyped novel product experiences - Built MVP's to validate market opportunities - Sourced, evaluated and recommended Enterprise startups for partnership and investment across Orange Business Services and Innovation groups including the Orange Fab accelerator - Filed patent applications (and some were granted!)

Founder and CTO

2007 - 2009

Founder of Filobite, an early file-storage and collaboration startup focused on consumer and SMB markets, founded about the same time as Box and Dropbox.