Greg Kostello Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As Co-founder and CTO of Huma.AI, I developed a revolutionary AI platform that integrates life sciences' complex and disparate systems, empowering subject matter experts (SMEs) to access data, gain insights, and take action through agentic generative AI—significantly enhancing efficiency in the sector.Key Achievements and Innovations:- Pioneered AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in life sciences, positioning Huma.AI at the forefront of biotechnology and pharmaceutical research.- Led early collaborations with OpenAI to explore AI models for life sciences applications.- Co-authored publication comparing AI technology (Huma.AI) with traditional manual literature searches, demonstrating superior accuracy, efficiency, and precision in retrieving relevant articles for post-market surveillance of in vitro diagnostic and medical devices.-Developed agentic AI solutions for training vector databases, advancing the analysis of structured and unstructured data in R&D.- Led collaboration with AWS on specialized evaluation of different models used in life science-specific applications to accurately measure strengths and weaknesses of each model.- Designed an adaptive AI platform that learns from organizational data, driving insights, accurate predictions, and efficiency in drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomedical research.My work at Huma.AI bridges the gap between complex data and actionable insights, allowing SMEs to harness AI in daily operations. By focusing on intuitive interfaces and powerful backend technologies, we've created a platform that not only solves current inefficiencies but also fosters future innovations, helping accelerate scientific breakthroughs and improve patient outcomes.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Explored and experimented with NLP models (BERT, spaCy, Allen Institute, etc) for enterprise applications at Huma.AI.• Transformed exploratory project into an AI platform for complex data analysis.

Mountain View, California, Us

At Bidgely we want to be the engine for every household everywhere to understand their energy usage and make informed decisions that are good for their pocketbooks and great for the planet. Bidgely is working to solve one of the biggest challenges in energy: enabling utilities to meet their demand-side energy goals by fully engaging and satisfying their customers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clc012Ss9LU

San Diego, Ca, Us

QuickFire enables cloud-based transcoding that radically speeds the delivery of digital video to “Any Screen” devices. Incremental speed improvements for video transcoding are not sufficient to address the "perfect storm" of exploding video traffic colliding with new processor-intensive encoding solutions exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of new mobile, home and office device profiles to support.QuickFire acquired by Facebook January 2015Key Accomplishments:- QuickFire chosen to present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014

San Diego, Ca, Us

Givit is the easiest, most powerful way to create mobile videos. What Problem Does Givit Solve?- Shooting video is easy and on every device.- But creating good video is hard.- Givit makes it easy to create video highlights right from your smartphoneThe Givit App makes it easy for anyone to turn their unedited clips into a polished video that they want to share. Givit turns hours of work into minutes of creative fun. Quickly pick the best parts from your videos, add music, special effects, filters and transitions all on your iPhone or iPad and then share privately or with the world.Givit is built on the VMIX SaaS video platform.VMIX provides a SaaS platform for mobile and online media management and delivery. Developed with high-volume content producers in mind, the VMIX Media Management Platform powers the online video offerings of top online publishers in media, entertainment and enterprise.As a founder of VMIX and Givit, I’ve been responsible for the direction of the company and overseeing the operational success of the VMIX platform and the Givit product. I greatly enjoy developing products that exceed people's expectations, giving them new ways to communicate using video.Key Accomplishments:- Lead strategic transition from SaaS to mobile, consumer company- Lead all parts of product and development from concept, design and implementation- All Web & IOS (iPad/iPhone) development completed with 5 engineers.- IOS app has 900K downloads (4/5 stars)- Managed mobile social media campaigns and ad buysGivit Technology: Objective-C, AWS - EC2, S3, EBS, SNS, CloudFront, Open Source Tools

Robina, Queensland, Au

Started SaaS video platform company. Wrote business plan, raised VC capital and hired engineering and product team and lead the team through all phases of development. Worked closely with sales and customers throughout the lifecycle of the product. We created a video platform used by hundreds of media companies, Flip and NASA. The VMIX platform which at one point managed 23 millions and 750TB of media, allowed the company to pivot to Givit.Key Accomplishments:- Started Company, hired all initial employees- Set strategy for API-based, SaaS platform which would help land our most important customers - Flip, NASA and ESPN.- Worked hand-in-hand with co-founders to land key media deals- Worked closely with strategic customers to determine market needs- Led transition from data-center to cloud-based hybrid solution

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Responsible for managing and developing sales driven and strategic product goals. Kintera is the leading provider of "software as a service" solutions for the non-profit sector. Our product line includes an integrated hosted solution that enables non-profits to manage their organizational life cycle. The product offering includes integrated CMS, CRM, opportunity management, product support, accounting, workplace giving, fund management and membership management.Kintera also provides consumer facing offerings such as Kintera.org and Kintera GiftCard.

Post-merger with Vivendi/Universal, my responsibilities included integrating the organization within the parent company. Oversaw technology and business development of new entity.Key Accomplishments- Within six months of joining V/U, our team migrated the V/U European and US Internet entertainment sites to a single technology platform reducing overall expenses in bandwidth, licensing and overhead and at the same time increasing the features, capabilities and capacity of the platform.- Successful completed and deployed Pressplay backend system. Division acquired by Napster in 2003. - Enhanced eCRM system according to Universal Music and Universal Group customer requirements. The system was found to be extremely cost effective compared to similar products on the market.- Working with UMG, the team extended the MP3.com content management system and created a general repository for UMG digital masters. System is presently in use.[Joined V/U through acquistion of MP3.com]

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Key Accomplishments- Worked closely with sales and marketing to maximize business opportunities. - Developed business processes and innovative in-house technology that was instrumental in rapidly producing high quality products.- Worked closely with V/U business and technology leaders on the acquisition of MP3.com. - Managed patent portfolio. - Developed in-house e-mail marketing system capable of delivering over 120 million custom e-mails per month. - Migrated MP3.com technology platform to an ASP model allowing sales and marketing to manage, develop, deploy and analyze all campaigns without dependencies on any technical staff. - Responsible for technology strategy and development of MP3.com. Combined Open Source technology (Linux, Apache, Perl, MySql, XML) with proprietary technology (Microsoft, Sybase, Oracle) to minimize development expenses and maximize strategic opportunities. - Managed organization during times of crisis and growth.

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Managed technology team co-located in San Diego and Mountain View, CA. Key Accomplishments- Responsible for product plan, development schedule and engineering plan for Composer module. - Developed system using a platform neutral approach -- 95% of code was shared between the Linux, Windows and Mac versions. The core engine was a extension of the Gecko layout engine.[Joined Netscape through acquistion of DigitalStyle]

Co-founded web software development company. Netscape acquired company in June of 1997.Key Accomplishments- Worked with team to develop initial product plan.- Developed editing modules for first product, WebSuite. - Engineering manager for all further phases of the product.

Worked with team to develop rules-based, page layout and word processing program for NeXTStep OS. Engineering lead for Web Pages in 1994, one of the world's first WYSIWYG web page editors.

Software engineer on MacWrite IIJ (Japanese). The MacWrite IIJ product became the number one selling Macintosh product in Japan upon release. Developed software style sheet engine for MacWrite Pro. Primary engineer on the editor for unreleased e-mail product.