Lew Tucker
Biography
Lew Tucker, PhD, is a computer scientist and technology executive with more than 40 years at the frontier of high-tech innovation. Earlier in his career, he was a research scientist in Neurobiology at Cornell University Medical College, before completing his doctorate and joining Thinking Machines Corporation, where he led research in computer vision and parallel algorithms on the Connection Machine. He went on to help launch Java programming language at Sun Microsystems, build the AppExchange at Salesforce – one of the first SaaS marketplaces – and serve as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco. He has served on the boards of the OpenStack Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and Cloud Foundry. He holds a BA from Cornell University and a PhD in Computer Science from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.