Charles Acknin

CEO & Co-Founder at Skyways

Charles Acknin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Skyways. Charles has also served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Elixir Labs, Inc from June 2015 to May 2016. Prior to that, they worked as a software engineer at Oracle from September 2008 to October 2008. Charles was then hired by Google where they worked as a Senior Software Engineer from November 2008 to April 2015. During their time at Google, they worked on the search engine for almost 5 years and also spent a year making the "universally accessible" part of Google's mission a reality. Charles Acknin was also a Summer of Code 2007 participant where they worked on the open source version control system called Subversion. Prior to that, they interned as a software engineering intern at Amadeus from July 2006 to June 2007 and also worked as a software developer at Cosworld-Asia Ltd. - Shanghai from November 2005 to June 2006.

Charles Acknin's educational career includes attending Y Combinator as part of their Summer 2017 cohort and receiving a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University. Charles also has a Master of Science in Computer Science from SUPINFO and is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in Private Pilot Licence.

Some individuals on their team include Rajat Luthra - Marketing Executive, Stephen Klasinski - Manufacturing Lead.

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