Timothy C. Chou PhD

Timothy Chou has been lucky enough to have a career spanning academia, successful (and not so successful) startups and large corporations. As President of Oracle On Demand, he grew the cloud business from its very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) and Teradata (NYSE: TDC). He started his career at one of the original Kleiner Perkins startups, Tandem Computers. Now as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator he is focused on next-generation enterprise software startups. Finally, he started teaching at Stanford University in 1982 and launched the university’s first-class on cloud computing, CS309A. His second landmark book Precision: Principals, Practices, and Solutions for the Internet of Things were recently translated and published in China, India, and Vietnam.