Peter Winer is an accomplished engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building successful engineering teams and shipping innovative products. He has worked for companies funded by Sequoia Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins, as well as technology giants like Cisco Systems, Symantec, and Intel Corporation. Peter has provided technical due diligence advice for investment firms such as Allen & Co, Mayfield Fund, Advanstar Communications, and Lightspeed Ventures. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City. Peter is a Consulting CTO at Lankester Engineering, where he works with early-stage European companies, focusing on expanding technical teams, optimizing efficiency and Agile best practices, and aligning software engineering with business objectives. He has invented and patented user experience features in wide usage today and has personally developed system software licensed to Apple.