Ex-CEO of Xnor.ai, which created deep neural network machine learning models that enable powerful AI even on highly resource-constrained platforms. Xnor was acquired by Apple in January 2020. Ex-CEO of Auth0, an IDaaS that eliminates the friction of identity for apps, APIs & IoT, as it grew from 5 employees to nearly 300 employees internationally. Auth0 has raised a over $100M in venture capital from top-tier investors. During Jon's tenure as CEO, Auth0 acquired customers in 100& countries, developed an engineering, marketing, sales, finance and ops team that was distributed across 35 countries, with offices in Bellevue, London, Buenos Aires and Sydney, and a valuation exceeding a half-billion dollars. Broad and deep experience with VC/M&A deal analysis, evaluation, structuring, and execution, specializing in deals with complex tech & biz model components. Excellent negotiation skills. Excels in senior leadership positions charting new territories in technologies, products or business models. Publicly disclosed xactions at Microsoft: Greenfield Online, Powerset, Kidaro, Calista, Multimap, N-trig, Tellme, StorSimple, HLW Software, and Apiphany. These deals generated $1.6B& in incremental operating income to Microsoft; Jon led 1/3 of all of Microsoft's acquisitions closed in '13 . Product management for the Convex Exemplar SPP-1xxx (acquired by HP to become the Superdome server line), and Mentor Calibre (most successful product of all time for the company). System architecture & design projects include the most successful minisupercomputer of all time (Convex C2), world's first commercially available GaAs supercomputer (Convex C3), and the massively parallel Convex SPP, which became the HP Superdome. IC design experience includes CMOS, ECL and GaAs memory & cache controllers, as well as CPU arithmetic units. Inventor of U.S. patent 7,108,933 "Thermally efficient hydrogen storage system" (pertains to fuel cells).