Summary
Aaron Fulkerson is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO based in San Diego with eight years of focused experience scaling enterprise software and AI platforms. As founder of MindTouch and now CEO of Opaque Systems, he has a track record of turning research-grade ideas into revenue-generating products that balance high-performance AI with provable privacy and data sovereignty. He led ServiceNow’s most successful product launch—taking Impact from concept to a nine-figure business—and has repeatedly combined product strategy, GTM execution, and customer-first adoption programs to drive rapid growth. Aaron blends deep product and go-to-market instincts with hands-on experience building developer and user communities, having commercialized open source software at scale. He also co-hosts the AI Confidential podcast, bringing candid conversations with enterprise AI leaders into discussions about security, governance, and real-world deployment. An engineer by training (BS Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill), he uniquely bridges research, product, and operational execution to move sensitive AI workloads into production.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill