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About Valency
The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research. Valency is the foundation for the new era of exploration and innovation. Operated by Valency Systems Inc., Berkeley, California.
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Leadership
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Josh Bloom
CEO & Co-founder
Josh is an academic and serial entrepreneur. As an astronomy professor at UC Berkeley he has worked in the interface between time-domain and compact-object astrophysics. He received the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society and is a former Hertz Foundation Fellow, Sloan Foundation Fellow, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society. He holds a PhD from Caltech, MPhil from Cambridge, and AB from Harvard. Before founding Valency, his previous AI-for-customer-support company, wise.io, was acquired by GE.
Karthik Ram
Head of Science
Karthik sets the direction for what the company builds across product, engineering, and marketing. His focus is on making AI actually useful for research: tools that meet scientists where they already work. He has founded and led national initiatives for open science and research software sustainability, and holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from UC Davis. He is a senior fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Ryan Anderson
COO
Ryan leads operations and enterprise strategy for Valency. He was an Architect in Residence at IBM, IBM CTO for the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem, and senior director of R&D and Data Science at Connect Solutions. His IBM edge computing team was a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s LF Edge, and he served on the LF Edge board. He holds an MBA from Cambridge University.
Matt Work
Chief Revenue Officer
Matt is a technology executive and entrepreneur who has built and scaled numerous software, data, and AI businesses. Before joining Valency, he co-founded Mechanical Orchard leading operations, strategy, and financing behind its mission to modernize legacy mainframe systems. Prior to that he was CEO of Discovery Mining, an e-discovery SaaS company acquired by Interwoven; VP of Strategy at Cognizant; and head of research at Alexa Internet.
