Karl Zhao

Dr. Karl Zhao serves as vice president of engineering where he oversees the development of the AI cloud platform that is central to the CloudMinds vision. Prior to joining our company, Karl was the head of engineering for mobile apps and video at OpenX, where he led the architecture, design, development and deployment of mobile app and video ad exchange servers that can handle multi-billion requests per day. One of the impacts of this team was a 800% increase in revenue. Prior to this position, Karl held technical leadership positions marked by increasing levels of responsibility, at AT&T, BiggiFi, DigiLink and Equator technologies.

Having led numerous initiatives that involved complex, interactive, high bandwidth, real-time systems for emerging services, Karl was drawn to CloudMinds for the opportunity to bring to reality a platform that can transform society.

Karl earned his doctorate and master degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, and received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University.