Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams

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  • FOSSA
    CEO
    FOSSA
    Feb 2026 - Current (9 months)
    FOSSA is a leading application security and compliance platform, built to simplify the shipping of trusted software.
  • FOSSA
    COO
    FOSSA
    Apr 2025 - Feb 2026 (11 months)
  • FOSSA
    CMO
    FOSSA
    May 2024 - Apr 2025 (1 year)
  • Plotly
    Board Advisor
    Plotly
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2026 (2 years 2 months)
    Plotly is the low-code framework for rapidly building interactive, scalable data apps in Python.
  • FOSSA
    VP Marketing
    FOSSA
    May 2022 - May 2024 (2 years 1 month)
  • Civis Analytics
    VP Marketing
    Civis Analytics
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 4 months)
    Civis Analytics helps leading public and private sector organizations use data to gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract, and engage people. With a blend of proprietary data, technology and advisory services, and an interdisciplinary team of data scientists, developers, and survey science experts, Civis helps organizations stop guessing and start using statistical proof to guide decisions.
  • HEAVYAI
    VP Marketing
    HEAVYAI
    Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 5 months)
    Heavy.ai is the pioneer in accelerated analytics. The Heavy.ai platform is used in business and government to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise.

    Acquired by NVIDIA.
  • DiQ
    Head of Global Community
    DiQ
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 6 months)
    Led the launch and growth of the DC/OS open source project (DCOS.io) for D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere). 68 partners contributed to the launch and we beat adoption targets by 3x in the first 6 months. Invited to sit on the Cloud Native Compute Foundation Governing Board (CNCF.io) representing Mesosphere.

    Sought-after speaker, including: ApacheCon 2016, QCon 2016 Workshop, All Things Open 2016, LinuxCon 2016
  • Bornlogic
    Acting General Manager
    Bornlogic
    Jan 2015 - Oct 2015 (10 months)
    Bornlogic is a cloud-based adtech platform for micro-targeting social ads, and managing large sets of custom audiences.

    Setup the US subsidiary, signed the first US customers (Clorox & Nestle), and built the local team. Also defined and launched a multicultural version of the product specifically targeted at the US market.

    Still actively serving as an advisor to the company.
  • SocialSamba
    Co-Founder, CEO
    SocialSamba
    Oct 2010 - Dec 2014 (4 years 3 months)
    SocialSamba was scripted social conversations - a ground-breaking SaaS platform that facilitated large-scale, automated conversations with fans in Twitter, Facebook, SMS and mobile apps.

    Customers signed: Fox, MTV, Turner, USA Network, Bravo, Warner Bros, HarperCollins, Symantec
    Industry Recognition: 2013 & 2012 Emmy Nominee, 2014 TV of Tomorrow All-Star, 2012 Shorty Award Winner, 2012 SxSW Interactive Awards finalist

    - Increased fan response 4x and shares/retweets 10x by starting millions of individual, personalized conversations
    - Reduced cost of engagement 72% by focusing social management teams on high-value fans

    Campaign Examples:
    - USA Network’s “Hashtag Killer” where 350k fans spent 18M
  • SAP
    VP, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group
    SAP
    Jul 2005 - Oct 2010 (5 years 4 months)
    The world leader in enterprise software and software-related services; a $36B market-cap company.

    Led international teams managing thousands of SAP partnerships, including technical and business relationships. Built the legal framework, process and collaboration platform that defined more than half of SAP’s SOA APIs. Decreased the cost of innovation by 10%, while accelerating new product adoption by 11 months.

    2006 & 2007 SAP High Potential Employee (top 2%)
    2006 SAP MVP Award for the success of ES Community
    Promoted four times, leading multiple diverse teams: engineering, operations, and business development
  • Sun Microsystems
    Senior Manager, Java Community Process
    Sun Microsystems
    Sep 2002 - Jul 2005 (2 years 11 months)
    Sun was a silicon valley hardware and software pioneer, as well as the inventor and steward of the Java language and platform.

    Led Sun’s two Java Executive Committees, the business development relationship with its toughest competitors. Managed the PMO of the Java Community Process (www.jcp.org), responsible for the strategy, operations and evolution of the corporate ecosystem around the Java platform.
  • P
    Co-Founder, CEO
    Picotent
    May 2000 - Aug 2002 (2 years 4 months)
    Picotent provided software and services to television networks globally, to enable interactive television productions on diverse platforms.

    Customers signed: Fox Sports (US), BBC (UK), Channel 10 (Australia), YLE (Finland)
  • Sun Microsystems
    Lead Producer, JavaTV Content
    Sun Microsystems
    Jan 1998 - May 2000 (2 years 5 months)
    Led the technical side of many first-of-their-kind interactive television productions (wrote the code, integrated the technology into the broadcast room). Was part of the team that successfully lobbied to make JavaTV the basis for global iTV standards, including DVB.
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  • Case Western Reserve University
    BS, Computer Engineering
    Case Western Reserve University
  • Case Western Reserve University
    MS, Computer Science
    Case Western Reserve University
    MS Thesis: Anonymous Communications of Java Components (a precursor to Java Beans)
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  • D
    DC/OS: The Datacenter Operating System
    Apr 2016 - Current (10 years 7 months)
    The largest event for Mesosphere in 2016. Launched with 68 contributing partners.
  • C
    Cybergeddon for Norton
    Nov 2012 - Current (14 years)
    Cyber criminals are on the loose, and the FBI needs your help to track them down in our first branded social story.
  • T
    Teen Wolf: The Hunt on MTV
    Jul 2012 - Current (14 years 4 months)
    Join the wolf pack of characters from the show as they try to figure out what happened to one of their own.
  • #
    #HashtagKiller for Psych on USANetwork
    Sep 2011 - Current (15 years 2 months)
    Join Shawn and Gus in a private social network and help them track a serial killer across the country.

    2012 Emmy Nominated
    2012 Finalist for SxSW Interactive Awards
    2012 Winner Shorty Awards
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    TV of Tomorrow All-Star
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    The annual award for the individual who has a long-term track record of leadership in the interactive television industry, and who is an appropriate candidate for membership in the ITV Hall of Fame.
  • A
    Emmy Nominee
    Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
    Hashtag Killer - an Interactive story produced for USA Network's hit show Psych. Nominated for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media-Original Interactive Television Programming.
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