Peter Yared

Peter Yared is a prominent figure in the tech industry, known for his role as the founder and CEO of InCountry, a leading provider of Data Residency-as-a-Service for SaaS and internal apps. He is also the Ringleader at Summary.News, an AI-powered news aggregator.

With a background in founding six enterprise software companies that were acquired by major tech players, including Sun, Oracle, Citrix, VMware, Sprinklr, and Prograph, Peter has a wealth of experience in the industry.

Peter's career highlights include serving as the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive, overseeing the cloud migration of its Comscore #7 group of Internet properties. At Sun, he held the positions of CTO of the Application Server Division and the CTO of the Liberty federated identity consortium.

An innovator in Internet infrastructure, Peter holds several patents related to federated single sign-on and dynamic data requests. He is a prolific writer and speaker on technology trends, contributing to various publications such as the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

Beyond his tech expertise, Peter is a certified Yoga instructor, holds a 2nd dan in Tomiki Aikido, and has practiced Muay Thai kickboxing for two decades.

A well-traveled individual, Peter has lived in over 80 countries across seven continents, speaks three languages, and has contributed to large-scale digital art installations.

Peter acknowledges the mentorship of individuals like Bob Pulgino, Dave Prue, Steve Zocchi, and Jean-Louis Gassée throughout his career.

He pursued his BS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland.

Peter has been associated with various organizations including InCountry, Layer3.news, Sapho, CBS Interactive, Postano, Transpond, WaveMaker, Sun Microsystems, NetDynamics, j.rad, and Prograph.