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Biography

Mr. Terry Olkin was a Co-Founder of Left Hand Robotics and served as its Board Member, President and Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Terry was a Fellow at Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, where he advised on architecture. Prior to Workday, Terry co- founded and was CTO at GridCraft, Inc., which was acquired by Workday in May 2015. Before GridCraft, Terry was senior vice president and CTO of Oracle's Global Business Units. In this role, he advised on M&A, architectural, and product-related issues across all seven of Oracle's vertical industry product lines. Previously while at Oracle, he initiated, designed and led a team to build Oracle's collaboration and social suite of software. Prior to that, he worked on key areas of Oracle's flagship database product. Since graduating MIT in 1988 (Computer Science and Engineering), he has worked at both large technology companies (Oracle, Microsoft, Workday) and small start-ups, including three that he co-founded. His experience encompasses everything from software engineering, project management, divisional management, entrepreneurship, raising money, building business plans, delivering products to market, and interacting with customers. Terry is a named inventor on over 21 patents mostly in the areas of networking and data security. Terry was also instrumental in a number of common technology standards including the ANSI SQL database language, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface, and the Java Messaging Service (JMS). In his copious free time, Terry taught Enterprise Data Security at the University of Colorado - Boulder, mentors robotics teams, volunteers at numerous robot competitions, and is president of the GEAR Alliance, a non-profit organization that helps promote STEM in the local community. Terry enjoys stand-up comedy, Ultimate Frisbee, volleyball, and model railroads.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member, Left Hand Robotics
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BS (Bachelor of Science)
Gender
Male

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