Summary
Gerardo Capiel is a serial founder and seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of product and engineering leadership experience, including senior roles at Google and as founder/CTO of multiple startups that achieved exits. He combines enterprise-scale delivery (Google Cloud, Google Pay, Nest) with hands-on startup pragmatism—having built early eCRM innovations and the first HTML marketing email at Digital Impact. Based in Napa Valley, he now channels his deep local knowledge and operational skills into Vine Trail Adventures, designing bespoke road, gravel and MTB cycling tours and coordinating multi-day international itineraries. A native Spanish speaker with an MBA from Stanford and an MIT engineering degree, he bridges technical product strategy, nonprofit board leadership, and experiential travel entrepreneurship. An unexpected thread through his career is translating complex technical program delivery into delightful, highly organized customer experiences—whether launching streaming products or crafting a multi-day bike tour.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
B.S. Engineering Systems and Computation, B.S. Engineering Systems and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Portuguese