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Oliver Tavakoli
Chief Technology Officer, Vectra AI
Oliver Tavakoli is chief technology officer at Vectra AI. Oliver is a technologist who has alternated between working for large and small companies throughout his 25-year career — he is clearly doing the latter right now. Prior to joining Vectra, Oliver spent more than seven years at Juniper as chief technical officer for the security business. Oliver joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where he was CTO and better known as developer #1 for Steel-Belted Radius. Prior to joining Funk Software, Oliver co-founded Trilogy Inc. and prior to that, he did stints at Novell, Fluent Machines, and IBM. Oliver received an MS in mathematics and a BA in mathematics and computer science from the University of Tennessee.