Gary Mekikian

Gary Mekikian is the CEO and co-founder of TREBEL. He is a serial tech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience as a co- founder and executive of several companies.

Prior to co-founding TREBEL in 2014, Gary co-founded and served as CEO of GATeIC, a semiconductor IP company that developed algorithms for digital signal processing, from 2005 to 2013. From 1999 to 2002, Gary co-founded and served as CEO and Chairman of answerFriend Inc. (which became InQuira,) a natural language processing technology company, which was acquired by Oracle. Prior to InQuira, Gary joined the founding team at i-Cube as Head of Sales, a provider of electronic business transformation services, which went public and was subsequently acquired by Razorfish, Inc. in 1999.

Gary earned his MS from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering.