Damian Black
Chief Product And Technology Officer at AnywhereNow
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Black is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on leadership building high-performance AI, real-time analytics and Big Data platforms that have become industry standards. As founder of SQLstream and later VP of platform products at Thales Guavus, he created market-leading streaming SQL products, secured an $8M OEM with AWS and drove deployments at scale for customers like Verizon and major transport authorities. Now Chief Product and Technology Officer at AnywhereNow, he blends product, engineering and go-to-market leadership to deliver award-winning Microsoft Teams-based contact center solutions used by over 2,000 enterprise customers. His early AI research at HPLabs—working alongside Geoffrey Hinton on meta-reasoning and knowledge management—underpins a deep, research-informed perspective on generative LLMs and applied ML. Known for turning modest resources into world-class products, Damian has a rare knack for translating visionary technical strategy into repeatable revenue, partnerships and successful exits. He pairs strategic judgment and analyst-level storytelling with a willingness to dive into engineering details to unblock teams and ship results.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc (hons) First Class Computer Science and Engineering, B. Sc (hons) First Class Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester
English, French, SwedishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
antiadp/personalProj
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
antiadp/DevMtnCrash
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 branch in 4 months
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