Proven Leadership

Aglaia Kong is CEO/CTO for ExaLeap, a technology company focusing on smart enterprise, smart home, smart health, and smart factory solutions for social impact.

Prior to ExaLeap, Aglaia Kong was Google’s CTO, overseeing the Google and Alphabet network infrastructure. Leveraging Artificial Intelligent (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), she defined and designed their overall architecture, building a Software Defined Network (SDN) that is configured and optimized automatically based on intent and policy. She was also part of Google’s Cloud CTO Office and initiated Google’s Cloud IoT Core. She defined and drove Google’s worldwide smart building efforts and educated the industry on the approach for smart buildings.

Before Google, Aglaia Kong was CTO for Cisco’s IoE (Internet of Everything) Solution Group and VP of Technology-leading solution innovation for IoT. IoE is about connecting things (IoT) together for different verticals. Cisco helps customers optimize their operations via data analytics, driving new business values. In this role, she worked closely with partners and industry experts to create new solutions for verticals like oil and gas, manufacturing, energy, smart cities/nations, health care, and others. During her time in Cisco, she was also VP/GM for the Connected Platform Group, focused on delivering innovative products/platforms that enabled various vertical solutions, such as education, health care, and smart cities. She also served as CTO for Cisco China, understanding China’s unique trends and needs, creating new products to address these needs, and driving many partnerships to help Cisco get into new markets and participate in country transformational deals. In her 6 years with Cisco, she:

• Built a business unit from scratch to more than $1 billion revenue in less than 2 years. She built a team from 1 people to over 100+ people with more than 300+ outside contractors
• Invented, then delivered 6 product platforms for education, health care and smart cities (transportation, remote health, environmental monitoring, building energy management) in record time
• Helped Cisco into many new markets with multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunities, such as the Education Cloud for K-12 for China, Thailand, Brazil, and other emerging countries, and Connected Rural, encompassing all the villages and 60% of China’s population, delivering Smart City solutions to 10+ large cities in China and around the world
• Helped Cisco create 4 joint ventures in China and managed more than 30 technology companies for joint solutions development around the world
• Became a trusted advisor who was well connected to many large state-owned entities, ministries and country leaders in China and emerging countries due to her technical expertise, ability to articulate customer value and speed of execution in solving problems with the right solutions

Beyond her business focus, she is a technology expert, driving many efforts and serving multiple roles:

• Chief architect for EnergyWise, an open-standard and platform to enable energy management through communication networks for any of the world’s electronic devices
• Core member of Cisco Cloud Computing and IoT (Internet of Things) workgroups
• Advisory Professor for East China Normal University for Computer Science
• Advisory Professor for China Zhejiang University for Computer Information and Cloud Management
• Case Study for HK China University MBA course for Market-Driven Innovation
• Advisor to various startups in Silicon Valley, CA, focusing on distributed file systems, next-gen storage, big data analytics, smart grid, food safety, environmental monitoring, and health monitoring

Prior to Cisco, Aglaia Kong was an accomplished technologist and leader. A few highlights:

• Symantec’s CTO for Storage & Availability Management Group
• Symantec Fellow
• Initiated and managed Huawei-Symantec Joint Venture
• Distinguished engineering for VERITAS
• Pioneer and patent holder in leveraging GPS / GIS (Global Positioning System / Geographic Information System) for navigation
• Founded and led various startups with a good track record in Silicon Valley
• A wide range of technical experience including mapping via GPS/GIS, satellite communication, internet messaging, satellite image pattern recognition, pen computing, storage, file systems, high availability technology for server and storage, disaster recovery, security, cloud computing, networking, laser, microelectronic, semiconductor, surface chemist etc.
• Leading specialist for surface chemist and laser technology
• More than 15+ patents related to storage virtualization, navigation, file systems, and power management
• Many publications in scientific journals
• Speakers for 300+ events around the world

Education

• BS, Electrical Engineer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Executive MBA Program, MIT
• Consultant Professor, East China Normal University

Victor To is a 30+ year veteran of Silicon Valley with extensive experience in design, implementation, and deployment of cloud-based solutions across multiple industries that include manufacturing, financial, education, and gaming. He is Chief Architect of ExaLeap.

Victor is the Chief Architect of ExaLeap’s AI-driven data platform, designed to simplify data collection and normalization with the intent to make data easily consumable by AI / ML models and other operational applications.

Before ExaLeap, Victor worked at Cisco Systems leading the IoT solutions development across multiple industries. He architected and deployed a number of innovative solutions as part of the Digital Manufacturing of the Future and Smart City initiatives. In particular, the Zero Downtime Solution for a major car manufacturer, deployed worldwide, significantly reduced unscheduled downtime. Prior to Cisco, Victor held senior positions in financial and high-tech companies such as Wells Fargo Bank, Vitria Technology and Augmentum Inc.

Education

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles