Advisors
Lew Tucker, Ph. D.
Mr. Tucker has two decades of achievements leading advanced technology ventures. He was Vice-President of AppExchange at salesforce.com where he created and drove the growth of the AppExchange online marketplace.
In addition to his role at salesforce.com, Mr. Tucker spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he was Vice-President of Internet Services, having overall corporate responsibility for Sun Microsystem’s presence on the World Wide Web. Earlier he served as CTO and Director of Sun Developer Programs. As a core member of the first JavaSoft executive team and evangelist for the advancement of the Java technology platform he delivered Sun’s technology strategy at conferences, industry panels, and financial analyst briefings. These included presentations given at InternetWorld, JavaOne96, JavaOne97, JavaOne98, RedHerring, Byte Research Forum and other CTO conferences worldwide.
Before coming to Sun, Mr. Tucker was Director of Development and Advanced Software at Thinking Machines, Inc., where he conducted research into machine learning and contributed to the architecture and development of the massively parallel Connection Machine supercomputer.
Mr. Tucker holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Polytechnic Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University. He has authored numerous papers on computer architecture, AI, and machine intelligence. Before entering the computer field, he was an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology at Cornell University Medical College and early pioneer in the use of computer technology for the mapping of brain function.