Hunter Powers
Chief Technology Officer at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolHunter Powers is a seasoned technology executive and AI/ML leader with over 20 years in tech and 14 years of focused leadership, currently serving as Founding CTO at Sellona. He has scaled engineering organizations globally—hiring and managing hundreds of engineers and data scientists—and put 40+ ML models into production while building internal MLOps capabilities. Hunter has guided product and capital strategy across startups and enterprise engagements, helping raise large rounds including a $170M raise at Interos and supporting diligence for ~$10M at Basket. His portfolio spans marquee clients and products for American Express, Google, NFL, Disney, and the New York Times, reflecting a rare blend of consumer and mission-driven enterprise experience. A member of Bessemer’s CTO Advisory Board and Forbes Technology Council, he pairs hands-on technical depth with investor-facing advice and competitive intelligence. Beyond titles, he’s an author and early adopter of decentralized data ideas—co-founding MassClarity to explore blockchain-backed data protocols and community-driven ML.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (39)
text-mining7
crawler6
intern6
scientific-publications6
corpus-linguistics5
nlp5
text-extraction5
data-scraping5
lxml5
tei5
scrapy5
extraction5
scraper5
readability5
corpus5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hpowers/movie-recommendation-engine
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:113 commits in 1 month
hpowers/dot
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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