michael abbott

Mike Abbott has led products from inception as well as scaled products and infrastructure for both consumers and enterprises. He is a product person. Mike most recently co-founded Open Athena which is a non-profit that accelerates academia with capabilities from the AI frontier and building a true open source model called marin. See here (https://openathena.ai)Mike prior was the Executive Vice President of Software and Services at GM where he oversaw almost 20k engineers focusing on all aspects of the software and services across the enterprise from Software-Defined Vehicle, Autonomous Driving, Onstar and the CIO function. Prior to GM, he was the VP Engineering of Apple Cloud Services. Apple Cloud Services spans the infrastructure for all of Apple's services - from core infrastructure services like storage/networking/compute to products like iCloud, applying ai to drive subscriptions, account security, iMessage, Private Relay, Mail to the products in the Education and Enterprise space for Apple.Prior to Apple, Mike was a visiting Scholar at Stanford' Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) doing AI research in computer vision with CNNs for autonomous driving. Previously Mike was a General Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and focused on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike is an engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor. He led the building of innovative, secure, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm and Microsoft before joining KPCB as a general partner. Mike is a member of the Board of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, UC Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board, Foundation Board at Cal Poly, Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford CS Dept, was a member of the HealthCare.gov Tech Surge Team, has held numerous board seats of both investments and companies he founded. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University and was a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. His class at Stanford seems to be popular - https://cs153.stanford.edu/