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About Valency
The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research. Valency is the foundation for the new era of exploration and innovation. Operated by Valency Systems Inc., Berkeley, California.
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Leadership
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Josh Bloom
CEO & Co-founder
An academic and serial entrepreneur. He is an astronomy professor at UC Berkeley and has worked in the interface between time-domain and compact-object astrophysics. He received the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society and is a former Hertz Foundation Fellow, Sloan Foundation Fellow, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society. He holds a PhD from Caltech, MPhil from Cambridge, and AB from Harvard. Before founding Valency, his previous AI-for-customer-support company, wise.io, was acquired by GE.
Karthik Ram
Head of Science
Karthik sets the direction for what the company builds across product, engineering, and marketing. His focus is on making AI actually useful for research: tools that meet scientists where they already work. He has founded and led national initiatives for open science and research software sustainability, and holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from UC Davis. He is a senior fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Ryan Anderson
COO
Ryan leads operations and enterprise strategy for Valency. He previously served as IBM’s Architect in Residence, San Francisco, and as CTO for the IBM-Palo Alto Networks partnership. He holds an MBA from Cambridge’s Judge Business School and is active in the Bay Area startup community.
