Gary Chevsky

Gary Chevsky is an accomplished entrepreneur and engineer, currently serving as the Vice President of Engineering for Collaboration at RingCentral. Born on September 11, 1972, in Odesa, Ukraine, he immigrated to the United States in 1988 and later settled in San Francisco, California. Chevsky studied Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds five patents related to natural language processing and information retrieval.

Career Highlights::

• Founding Architect of Ask.com: Chevsky played a significant role in developing the Ask Jeeves concept site in the early 1990s, contributing to advancements in question-answering technologies.
• Leadership Roles: He has held various leadership positions, including Vice President of Engineering at Symantec Corporation, where he focused on web security technologies like Norton Safe Web. He also served as Vice President of Product Development at YouSendIt (now Hightail).
• Tango and StayUp Inc.: Chevsky was instrumental in growing Tango's user base from under 10 million to over 400 million during his tenure as President. He later founded StayUp Inc., a social virtual reality company, which was acquired by IMVU in 2018.

In 2021, he joined RingCentral, where he continues to influence the development of collaborative technologies.12