Khanh Nguyen

Bio

Khanh has over 25 years experience as a technologist, 20 years of which as a CTO or CIO.  He started programming at a young age and has been integral with the formation of the internet backbone during the .com boom in the mid to late 90’s, building out large UNIX infrastructures for multiple organizations.  His technology experience includes, but is not limited to, mainly UNIX-based enterprise-level infrastructures, network infrastructures and security, application data security, and enterprise-level application development.  He has extensive experience redesigning, restructuring, and bringing to profitability several prominent businesses such as Freedom Communications - one of the ten largest media companies in the country - as well as non-profit organizations like Michael Milken's organizations and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he developed a 200+ node supercomputer processing real-time data from NASA's interferometer telescope, which became the basis for the WIDAR (Wideband Digital ARchitecture) supercomputer at the VLA (Very Large Array) interferometer telescope in New Mexico. As a consultant, he has revised infrastructures for the Port of Los Angeles, Black and Decker, Wet Seal, the Screen Actors Guild, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, and Lamps Plus.  He has also taken on entrepreneur roles, building companies from the ground up with joint Internet ventures with the former CTO of AMD Fred Weber; Dr. Drew Pinsky of MTV Lovelines; Guy Kawasaki of Garage.com Ventures; Softbank Ventures; Sky Dayton, founder of Earthlink and eCompanies Ventures; and Bill Gross’ IdeaLabs.  On his spare time, he continues to learn new technologies including real-time big data processing and machine learning algorithms to help innovate new business intelligence products and solutions.