Daniel Ford is an esteemed business leader with a passion for building competitive businesses by optimizing people, processes, and systems. He specializes in transforming technological concepts into commercially viable and nimble systems that benefit millions of users. With his proactive problem-solving skills and data-driven business strategies, he has partnered with product and technical teams to innovate customer-specific hardware, software, cloud, machine learning, and distributed infrastructure solutions. Ford has a PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Sydney.

His professional highlights include reorganizing and rebuilding software and machine learning teams to support Vium's pivot and launching disruptive technology for Matterport which secured patents and established the company's position as a world leader for 3D capture systems. Ford directed the development of new monitoring techniques and quantitative models for Google's distributed storage systems and created algorithms and working control code to determine where and how data should be stored in Google's next-generation global file store.

In the organizations where he worked, Ford elevated brand profiles, developed next-generation solutions for optimal service delivery, and delivered seamlessly integrated hardware, software, and cloud experiences to numerous clients.