2024 — Present
CEO, Tailored AI · Innovation Partner, Luminate Capital
Builds Simple Email and serves as board / operating partner across eight Luminate portfolio companies, helping each ship AI-native products.
About
Tailored AI Solutions builds Simple Email.
simple Email has one bias: make important work visible and the next useful move obvious.
The studio is deliberately small and hands-on. Simple Email is built with the same principles it ships: preserve the evidence, compress the noise, and keep people in control of their own work.
Founder & CEO
Alex Gounares
Board director, software CEO, and hands-on builder.
Alex is a board-level operator and software CEO who helps companies turn AI disruption into real product strategy and execution. He's a former AOL CTO, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Online CTO, and technology advisor to Bill Gates.
He founded and led Polyverse Cybersecurity from idea to $10M+ in revenue with U.S. Government customers. He holds 200+ U.S. patents and still codes daily — Simple is what he's building now.
200+
U.S. patents issued / pending
$2.5B+
Annual ad revenue led at Microsoft
1,300+
Engineers managed
30+
Years building software
Track record
2012 — 2024
Founder & CEO, Polyverse Corporation
Founded a VC/PE-backed cybersecurity company applying polymorphic defense to software binaries — $10M+ cumulative revenue and U.S. Government customers.
2010 — 2012
EVP & Chief Technology Officer, AOL
Led global engineering, IT, and technology operations for a $2.2B public company, managing a 1,300+ person workforce through a high-stakes turnaround.
1993 — 2010
Corporate VP / CTO / Technology Advisor, Microsoft
Online Services Division CTO for Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Advertising; Advertising R&D CVP; and technology advisor to Bill Gates across search, early Azure, and more.
Earlier
Founder · Los Alamos National Laboratory · Princeton
Founded a grid-computing startup and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. BSE in Computer Science, cum laude, from Princeton University.
Simple Email
Inbox intelligence for the work hiding inside email.
Simple Email keeps your providers authoritative and gives your Grok Router one place to understand and act on mail. Zoom from complete coverage, to useful cited summaries, to any original thread while ordinary email remains fully usable.
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