Summary
Mark Suman is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 16 years of experience building product-led engineering organizations and consumer-facing apps. Currently co-founder and CEO of Maple, he is focused on secure, privacy-first AI for work and home—shipping encrypted chat experiences with no tracking or data harvesting. His prior Apple roles spanned senior engineering management and program leadership across AI/ML, privacy, computer vision, and audio communication, bringing big-tech scale to product-focused execution. Earlier in his career he founded and grew mobile divisions and independent app businesses, including leading mobile at Instructure from startup to IPO and founding Little Bee Speech to serve speech and language therapy. He blends hands-on engineering, product management, and go-to-market experience, and is notable for repeatedly building teams and systems from the ground up while retaining a founder’s product sensibility. Based in Austin, he couples enterprise-grade delivery with a persistent focus on user privacy and real-world impact.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Systems, BS, Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese