Alex Gounares is the CEO of Tailored AI and founder of Polyverse Corporation, the makers of Boost: the AI Code Architect. Boost helps developers wrestle with complex and unwieldy code bases; the Boost AI automatically documents and analyzes entire software projects for security, compliance, and robustness issues.

Previously, Alex served as AOL's Chief Technology Officer. In this role, he led all aspects of AOL's technology strategy, platform development, and external technology partnerships. He was responsible for all of AOL's global engineering, IT, and operations functions. In addition, he served as a member of the company's Global Executive Operating Committee.

Alex joined AOL from Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Online Services Division. During his tenure at Microsoft, he led significant strategic and technical operations for some of the company's most important projects, including Microsoft's global advertising platform, Bing search, MSN, and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 1993, Alex worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has founded four startups, and is an inventor of over 200 U.S. patents issued, or, pending. Alex holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Alex holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in Computer Science from Princeton University.