Summary
Gabe Sibley is a serial robotics founder and technical leader with 12+ years building autonomy systems across agriculture, delivery, and passenger mobility from research to commercial deployment. As Founder & CEO of Verdant Robotics and former CEO of Zippy (acquired by GM-Cruise), he combines hands-on expertise in perception, planning, and learning with executive experience scaling teams and fundraising at Zoox. His background spans academia and industry—PhD from USC, postdoc at Oxford, faculty roles at George Washington and Colorado Boulder, and technical positions at NASA-JPL and Cruise—giving him rare depth across theory and real-world systems. Gabe’s work focuses on translating cutting-edge computer vision and ML into long-term autonomous capability that matters in the field, and he has a track record of growing research teams into product organizations and delivering impact outside the lab.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Computer Science, Phd Computer Science at University of Southern California
BS Math/CS, BS Math/CS at Emory University