Rich Sorkin

Rich Sorkin is CEO & cofounder of Jupiter Intelligence. Jupiter provides data analytics to help governments, corporations and society manage risks from climate change, natural disasters, and sea level rise. Led by veterans of Fortune 100 companies, machine learning and satellite pioneers, a Nobel Prize winner, and scientists from NOAA and the National Science Foundation, the firm offers services to predict weather risks from one hour to 50 years in the future.

In his three-decade-long career as a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, executive, advisor, board member and investor, he has led breakthrough companies in numerous industries. Sorkin focuses on commercializing transformative technologies, with a significant concentration on financial services, energy, media, politics, and the environment.

A cofounder of multiple startups, Sorkin’s companies have pioneered the use of satellite data and scalable cloud computing to predict weather events for commodity traders, applied analytics to detect identity theft and delivered transformative campus hosted and cloud based remote education.

Sorkin is the former Chair & CEO of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company providing analytics and visualization of geospatial data, acquired by HP. He was president of Kaggle prior to its acquisition by Google, leading the introduction of big data predictive analytics into the enterprise market.

Sorkin began his career at NASA and Bain & Company. He helped initiate coverage of the supercomputer industry at Goldman Sachs. After graduating business school, he ran the Sound Blaster business at Creative Labs during the time it gained market dominance, growing revenues from under $100M to close to $1 billion.

Sorkin graduated from Yale University and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Lockheed Scholar. He has served as a Board Member at publicly-traded companies, private firms, the Yale University Development Board, and several non-profit organizations.