Darick Tong
Darick is a Principal Engineer at Google, where he has built large-scale distributed systems since 2003. He is part of the team that developed and launched Gmail, and is a recipient of the Google Founders Award. At Stanford, he focused on artificial intelligence in his undergraduate studies and cryptography in his graduate studies in computer science.
David Papandrew
“Papa” brings 20 years of product management experience to the team. He is a co-founder of Fanpop and served as Chief Product Officer. Previously, he worked at several leading technology and media companies in the Bay Area in both the B2C and B2B spaces. Papa grew up in Hawaii and studied at Occidental and Harvard.
Cliff Szu
Cliff is an entrepreneur and CEO of Hadron. He was CEO and co-founder of Fanpop, a community-powered network achieving over 50 million uniques. Cliff grew up on the East Coast and studied computer science and economics at Stanford.
Michael Chu
Michael was instrumental in building out the technology and decentralized strategies embraced by millions of users at Fanpop. Previously, Michael worked at Intel where he helped develop and launch the Intel Centrino platform and was awarded six patents in Computer Vision. A California native, Michael studied computer science at U.C. Berkeley.
Evan Szu
Evan has managed technology product development for over a decade in Silicon Valley. He received dual degrees in computer science and chemistry from Brown University where he explored computer simulation techniques for modeling atomic and molecular motion. He later completed a Ph.D. at Stanford where he was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Simon Ilra Wei
Simon is a multi-disciplinary designer with extensive background in Visual Design, UI, and UX Design. Previously, he worked at 3Q Digital where he helped optimize marketing creatives for leading technology companies including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Nokia, and more. Bilingual in English and Korean, Simon grew up in the Bay Area and received a BFA at the elite ArtCenter College of Design.
Rob Ferber
Rob was Chief Scientist at Tesla and is currently Chief Engineer at Virgin Hyperloop One. A serial entrepreneur, Rob has two billion-dollar IPOs to his credit and has previously held the CTO or CEO position at a half-dozen Silicon Valley companies.
David Galvin
Dave is a payments, technology and internet veteran, with over 25 years of business and operating experience in Silicon Valley and is VP of Business Development at MasterCard. Previously, at 24 Hour Fitness, Dave led the successful $1.85B sale of the company.
Matthew Le Merle
Matthew is co-founder of Fifth Era and managing partner of Keiretsu Capital. Matthew is an expert on corporate growth, innovation and business transformations having advised Amazon, Cisco, eBay, HP, Microsoft, PayPal and others on growth and innovation-related issues.
Patrick Ryan
Dr. Ryan is the Trust, Strategy and Engineering Principal for Google Cloud and former Senior Policy Counsel at Google. He was U.N. Advisor to the Internet Governance Forum from 2013-2016 and has authored papers with Vint Cerf on net neutrality and internet policy.
Henri-Claude de Bettignies
Henri-Claude is the EU Chair for Global Governance and Sino-European Business Relations at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He is also an emeritus professor at INSEAD and a visiting professor at the Stanford GSB since 1988.
Jeff Chi
Dr. Chi is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford’s School of Medicine. Dr. Chi advises us on medical applications for Hadron AI and the charitable and research opportunities at Stanford and elsewhere.