Stephen Thompson has over a decade experience working with VCs, Start-up Founders and Leaders for well established and newly disruptive companies. Google, Apple, SquareTrade, Nike, LinkedIn and Amazon have all utilized his services over his vast career. Leaders of these companies have relied on Stephen to understand the impact of their research and development to gain measured results. Stephen's steep understanding of the technology in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on new created technologies has helped him in identifying distributed software applications that deliver for consumers around the world. Stephen has repeatedly influenced and advised leaders of Engineering, Operations, Product and Sales within these well known technology companies. His keen understanding of the value proposition, aligns him to help promote and deliver critical talent in these difficult new domains. Stephen is known in the industry as being a leader that can manage, train and develop young talent into game changing leaders in the technology world.

Stephen is a board member of Students Rising Above a nonprofit dedicated to impacting the future through the cultivation of extraordinary youth. SRA invests in low-income, first generation college students who have demonstrated a deep commitment to education and strength of character in overcoming tremendous odds of poverty, homelessness and neglect. Stephen lives in San Jose with his wife, a technology VP, and his two sons.