Leadership Team

Built by people who have done this before

Pod-OS is the product of two decades of work on memory, concurrency, and high-fidelity context. The people behind it have led AI organizations at Microsoft, Amazon, and SoundHound, invented the database and encryption techniques the platform runs on, and scaled deep technology from research into production.

Patents
21+
Years of R&D
15
Users reached
Billions

Leadership

The team building the platform

Operators and inventors who have shipped AI and data infrastructure at global scale — and who built the principles underneath Pod-OS.

Chris Schindler, Interim CEO

Chris Schindler

Interim CEO

25+ years, with patents, in ML, AI, and Conversational Interfaces. Led major AI teams at Microsoft, Amazon, and SoundHound. Built products you use every day: Alexa AI, Microsoft Speech Server, Lync, Smart Answering. Chris has taken AI from lab to billions of users.

Mike Meadway, Co-founder, Chief Research Officer

Mike Meadway

Co-founder, Chief Research Officer

10 patents in database, encryption. Serial entrepreneur: 360 Powered, Archive Index Systems, Atrieva. Mike didn't just design our platform—he invented the underlying principles that make it possible.

Stanford Tharp, Chairman, Co-Founder & Evangelist

Stanford Tharp

Chairman, Co-Founder & Evangelist

Pioneer in education technology and associative learning systems. Stanford saw the context revolution coming 15 years ago and began building

Board

Advising the company

Semiconductor manufacturing and pattern-recognition veterans who have taken deep technology from research into production.

David Ross, Board Member

David Ross

Board Member

25 years developing pattern recognition solutions for government and industry. Co-founded Calera Recognition Systems. His patents made them the world leader in OCR technology. Yale Physics + Stanford Aeronautical Sciences.

David Marsing, Board Member

David Marsing

Board Member

Retired Intel Vice President of Technology and Manufacturing. COO of Intel's Network Communications Group. University of Oregon Physics with multidisciplinary graduate work in physics, business, and law.

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