Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io. Prior to Ascend.io, Sean was a co-founder, CTO, and Chief Product Officer at Ooyala.

At Ooyala Sean oversaw Product, Engineering and Solutions, and played key roles in scaling the company to 500+ employees, Ooyala’s $410m acquisition, as well as Ooyala’s subsequent acquisitions of Videoplaza and Nativ.

Before founding Ooyala, Sean worked at Google where he was the tech lead for Google’s legendary Web Search Frontend Engineering team, helping that team increase Google’s revenues by over $1B. Sean also developed and launched iGoogle, the company’s popular, customizable home page.