The Founding Team

Kirk Herrington

Founder & CEO

With over 40 years of experience building teams, technologies and companies, Kirk remains passionate about the industry and is now devoting all of his time to the emerging generative pre-trained transformer platforms that will revolutionize our world. Kirk has built technologies for companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, HP, IBM and Apple as well as many mid-market and enterprise accounts.

As CTO at Pivotal, he led a 170 person R&D team to deliver the leading CRM solution for mid-market companies.

As CEO at Simba Technologies, he led the company to deliver state of the art database connectivity solutions such as ODBC / OLE DB.

At Microsoft, Kirk was a development lead on Excel V3 and part of the original Microsoft Office Team. This was the transformational version of Excel which launched it to be the leading desktop application in the world today.

At Aldus Corp, Kirk was a development lead on PageMaker, the desktop publishing app which popularized the Macintosh.

Kirk has co-founded 6 startup and has had 4 exits.

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Gary Zhang

CTO and Co-Founder

With over 20 years of experience building full stack enterprise applications, Gary is now fully immersed in GPT technology solutions.

Gary was most recently the CTO at Perk Labs, a public company providing mobile solutions for the hospitality industry.

Gary was previously CTO and Signal Hill Technologies where he led the development of mobile solutions for the telecommunications industry.

Gary was the Director of R&D at GaleForce Solutions, a leading ISV providing custom solutions for the financial services industry based on the Microsoft CRM platform.