Alex Gounares is the founder and CEO of Tailored AI, a boutique software firm that creates AI employees for small and medium businesses. Tailored specializes in solving the “last mile,” adapting AI technologies to solve its customers' specific needs and workflows. Alex also writes regularly at https://www.thoughtfulbits.me.

Previously, Alex served as CEO of Polyverse Corporation for twelve years. Polyverse created sophisticated cybersecurity technologies based on moving target defense approaches for the US Government and others.

Prior to Polyverse, Alex was AOL's Chief Technology Officer. In this role, he led all aspects of AOL's technology strategy, platform development, and external technology partnerships and was responsible for all of AOL's global engineering, IT, and operations functions.

Alex joined AOL from Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Online Services Division. During his tenure at Microsoft, he led significant strategic and technical operations for some of the company's most important projects, including Microsoft's global advertising platform, Bing Search, MSN, and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Alex also served for three years as Technology Advisor to Microsoft Chairman and founder Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President of Corporate Strategy in Microsoft's Finance Department.

Before joining Microsoft in 1993, Alex worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has founded nine startups and is also an inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents issued or pending. Alex holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in Computer Science from Princeton University.