Michael TsoCo Founder

United States - San Mateo, California

Michael Tso holds 36 patents and has been a technology trailblazer in enterprise data systems and mobile infrastructure for over 25 years. Michael co-founded Cloudian and grew it into a world leader in enterprise big data management. Michael also co-founded Gemini Mobile Technologies, who supplied to large Telcos the most scalable, mission critical mobile messaging systems. At search engine pioneer Inktomi, Michael led engineering for an e-commerce search engine, and designed a network congestion control system for KDDI which later became an industry standard. At Intel, he developed web acceleration technology and collaborated with Nokia on NarrowBand Sockets, commonly known as SmartMessaging, which enabled the world's first SMS ringtone download service. Michael also invented the core patents for mobile data synchronization that seeded IntelliSync which grew into a multi-billion-dollar business. Michael was part of the Ubiquitous Computing research team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where he helped develop PARCTab - the world's first wireless, location aware, wearable touch tablet. Michael graduated from MIT with an MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in Economics. While at MIT, Michael worked under TCP/IP patriarch Dr. David Clark on distributed file systems for intermittent network connectivity.