Richard Socher

Richard Socher is the Chief Executive Officer of you.com. Previously, he was the chief scientist (EVP) at Salesforce where he led teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, CRM search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. Before that, he was an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer science department and the founder and CEO/CTO of MetaMind which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. In 2014, Riched received his PhD in the CS Department at Stanford. He likes paramotor adventures, traveling and photography.