Earl Sacerdoti

Earl Sacerdoti is a serial entrepreneur, management consultant, executive coach, and angel investor focused on early-stage software ventures. He has over 40 years’ experience in general management and managing research, development, and engineering. Dr. Sacerdoti is a co-founder of Symantec, held bottom-line responsibility for a top-200 software products business through its IPO, and has held executive positions at Apple, a wide variety of software vendors, and a medical device company. He has served on the Board of Directors of eight companies and on numerous advisory boards.

Dr. Sacerdoti earned a BA in Psychology from Yale, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Stanford. He is a cofounder of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the author of a book and over 20 papers and articles on a wide range of advanced software topics. He is the inventor of nine issued and two pending US patents concerning consumer-selected advertising, data visualization, and predictive analytics using big data. He is also well known for his early basic research in Artificial Intelligence.