Julian Gay
Founder of Cred Protocol
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2021 - Current
Cred Protocol provides credit data analytics derived from onchain activity. We're on a mission to scale trust and transparency in web3 by quantifying lending risk at scale, "FICO for crypto".
Cred Protocol is a credit score system that quantifies risk at scale and enhances access to DeFi lending for under-served communities.
Founding Board Member (former Co-Chair)
2017
Non-profit with members including leading British tech entrepreneurs, execs and investors in the Bay Area and beyond. Working together to innovate, collaborate and inspire others.
GBx is a non-profit organization that specializes in the fields of information technology and services.
Partner
2019
Venture building and advising new businesses enabling the future of work and future of finance.
Mentor
2018
Mentor
2015
Coaching founders in product strategy, go-to-market, enterprise sales and helping out with applicant screening.
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
Member
2020 - 2021
Community member and Membership DRI (Directly Responsible Individual).
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
General Manager, Appwise
2017 - 2019
Responsible for AppDirect product groups: - AppWise (formerly Xendo, Inc.): an Intelligent Workspace product comprised of unified search across 40+ enterprise cloud services, natural language queryting (NLP using BERT), realtime news feeds and message-based collaboration. - AppInsights (formerly Leftronic, Inc. YC ‘10): a data visualization platform enabling insights across diverse data sources. - ADLearner: AppDirect's Machine Learning/AI platform (inspired by Facebook's FBLearner) providing model training, evaluation and observability supporting cross-functional subsidiaries and business lines.
AppDirect is a cloud-based software company that provides a platform for businesses to sell and manage their software subscriptions.
Raised $574,502,250.00 from Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and Investissement Quebec.
CEO and Co-founder
2013 - 2018
CEO and co-founder of Xendo. Our mission was to build an "executive assistant for everyone" and we went to market as one of the first cloud-based enterprise search services - unifying different enterprise applications into a single, searchable view. The product was launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2014 and the company was acquired in December 2015 by AppDirect, where it continued to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Senior Product Manager - Group Strategy and Development
2009 - 2013
Intrapreneur responsible for new product development and strategy supporting Orange's Enterprise business units. Advised Orange Executive Committee members on Enterprise product strategy. - Prototyped novel product experiences - Built MVP's to validate market opportunities - Sourced, evaluated and recommended Enterprise startups for partnership and investment across Orange Business Services and Innovation groups including the Orange Fab accelerator - Filed patent applications (and some were granted!)
Founder and CTO
2007 - 2009
Founder of Filobite, an early file-storage and collaboration startup focused on consumer and SMB markets, founded about the same time as Box and Dropbox.