Elias Torres
Founder of Novy
Elias Torres
Founder of Novy
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2023 - Current
We partner with both for-profit and non-profit organizations across various industries, offering the latest in AI advancements to keep our clients at the forefront of their fields and contributing positively to society.
Henry Crown Fellow
2022
The Henry Crown Fellowship seeks to develop the next generation of community-centered and global leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of business and civic leadership in the 21st century. The program is a unique mix of seminars designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-centered leadership. It honors the memory of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990), whose legendary career was marked by a lifelong commitment to honor, integrity, industry and philanthropy. Fellows are members of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. The Aspen Global Leadership Network is comprised of highly successful entrepreneurial leaders focused on values and on creating a more sustainable society. In being a part of a global network with access to some of the most talented and like-minded individuals around the world and with the support of the Aspen Institute, these leaders help each other to become more deliberate and impactful in their communities, societies, and the world.
Founder and CTO
2015 - 2023
Drift is the world's leading conversational marketing and sales platform that helps businesses connect now with the customers who are ready to buy now. After just three years in the market, the company has become one of the fastest growing SaaS companies of all-time and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100, LinkedIn Top 50 Startups, Entrepreneur's Top Company Cultures, Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work, and SaaS Company of the Year by the NEVCA. Get started for free today and join 150,000+ businesses using Drift at www.drift.com
VP of Engineering
2011 - 2014
HubSpot [NYSE:HUBS] is a modern, inbound marketing system that enables businesses to take advantage of the internet (search engines, blogosphere, and social media sites) to get found by more potential customers and convert higher percentages of them to customers.
Founder and CTO
2009 - 2011
Performable was acquired by HubSpot [NYSE:HUBS]. -- Performable offers a software platform for businesses looking to optimize their marketing, sales and customer service efforts. We offer a unified view of your customers across e-mail, web, social media and mobile channels, analytical tools to understand what marketing and sales efforts are working and the ability to trigger marketing campaigns based on real-time customer behavior.
VP of Engineering
2008 - 2009
I architected and built Lookery's cloud-based targeting infrastructure composed of various services such data collection, analytics using Hadoop and real-time user targeting. The platform managed profile data for over 200M unique users worldwide and handled billions of API calls from ad networks hosted entirely at Amazon using Amazon Web Services.
Senior Software Engineer
1998 - 2008
Technical Lead for IBM CIO Office Innovation Team for applied research in the areas Collaborative Web 2.0 and Semantic Web. Much of this work is still connected to standards such as SPARQL, RDFa, ODF and Atom as well as open source projects such as Apache Roller, Apache Abdera, Wordpress and more. I also pioneered Web 2.0 collaboration at IBM by introducing Blogs and Wikis to all employees on the Intranet. Based on the success of the blogging platform built on Apache Roller, it became part of Lotus Connections, IBM's first social software suite. My last realized vision there was building IBM's first feed syndication platform based on scalable Internet architectures. Member of IBM's Advanced Internet Technology Group. Applied research and deployment of technology for Intranet use and early product validation such as IBM Sametime (e-meetings and instant messaging), IBM Directory Server, Lotus Quickplace and many more. Several times project lead and mentor for IBM's Extreme Blue internship program (http://www.ibm.com/extremeblue/) Designed and shipped Sash for Windows: a dynamically configurable AJAX like programming environment for Rich Internet Applications in 1999. (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sash and http://bit.ly/ibmsash).