Amy Chang

Amr’s Bio

Dr. Amr Awadallah is the Co-founder and CEO of Vectara, a company that is enabling organizations to leverage Trusted GenAI to create AI Agents for business applications while reducing risks from hallucinations, security leaks, bias, copyright infringement, and intellectual property pollution.

Previously, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data. Cloudera went public in 2017 on the NYSE, and was acquired by KKR + CD&R in 2021 for $5.3b.

Amr’s first startup, Aptivia, was a search engine for online product information. It was later acquired by Yahoo! where Amr then served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering. Amr also served as Vice President of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. and received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.