2024 — Present
CEO, Tailored AI · Innovation Partner, Luminate Capital
Builds the Simple line of AI products and serves as board / operating partner across eight Luminate portfolio companies, helping each ship AI-native products.
About
Tailored AI Solutions builds the Simple line of AI products.
simple is a small family of AI products with one bias: make important work visible and the next useful move obvious. Today that means two shipping products — Simple Email and Simple Pulse — with more on the way.
The studio is deliberately small and hands-on. Products are built with the same principles they ship: 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.
The Simple line
Inbox intelligence for the work hiding inside email.
Simple Email reads every message and sorts it into a few clear buckets — what to read, what to reply to fast, what's a real task, and what's just noise. Summaries and draft-ready replies come ready, so you open one calm view instead of a wall of unread.
Open simple-email.aiThe daily read on what changed across your companies.
Simple Pulse gives leadership teams one place to monitor company strategy, product momentum, competitor moves, hiring signals, and daily news — with the context already attached, so every day starts with what changed and why it matters.
Open simple-pulse.com