Francois Toubol (he/him)

Francois Toubol (he/him) has a long and varied work experience. In 2021, they were appointed as VP of Engineering at Beyond Pricing. From 2019-2021, they served as CTO at Chill Meditation + Massage, where they focused on startup tech team & architecture, SaaS growth strategy, and capital raise. Francois also served as Member and President of the Board of Directors at the Chicago CTO Group from 2018-2019. From 2019-2021, they were an Advisor and CTO at Livly, where they focused on SaaS growth strategy and scaling product and engineering teams, culture, and processes. From 2010-2018, they served as Sr. Director of Engineering and SVP of Technology at Reputation.com, and from 2002-2010, they were the Founder and CTO at Epsilon Force Technology. Finally, from 1999-2002, they were a .NET Architect at Proceed Innovative LLC.

Francois Toubol has a Master's degree in Software Engineering from ISEP - école d'ingénieurs du numérique which they obtained from 1994 to 1999. In 2020, they attended Stanford University for Machine Learning, Prof. Andrew Ng. In 2019, they attended Yale University for Fundamentals of Physics, II (PHYS 201) and Quantum Mechanics, Prof. Ramamurti Shankar. Francois has also obtained numerous certifications, such as Unconscious Bias (2017) from LinkedIn in 2022, Cultivating Cultural Competence and Inclusion from LinkedIn in 2021, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020, Deep Learning Specialization from deeplearning.ai in 2020, Sequence Models from deeplearning.ai in 2020, Chief Technology Officer Career Guide from LinkedIn in 2020, Convolutional Neural Networks from deeplearning.ai in 2020, Deep Learning NLP: Training GPT-2 from Coursera in 2020, Machine Learning from Stanford University in 2020, Neural Networks Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization from deeplearning.ai in 2020, Neural Networks and Deep Learning from deeplearning.ai in 2020, Structuring Machine Learning Projects from deeplearning.ai in 2020, and IBM - Rational Certified Professional from IBM in 2000.