Ian Tien

About Ian Tien

SHORT BIO:Ian Tien is CEO and co-founder of Mattermost, Inc, the leading collaborative workflow platform for defense, intelligence, security and critical infrastructure for accelerating safety, productivity and innovation. Mattermost serves tech giants, banks, governments, and some of the most vital and mission-critical organizations in the world with both commercial and open source offerings. He was previously an engineering leader in Microsoft Office, where he earned over a dozen patents. Ian is an alumnus of Waterloo, Cornell and Stanford Business School, where he served as a teaching assistant for Andy Grove and Myron Scholes. US-Canadian dual-citizen.LONG BIO:Ian Tien is CEO and co-founder of Mattermost, Inc, a secure collaboration platform for technical operations that accelerates safety, productivity and innovation. Mattermost serves tech giants, banks, governments, defense organizations and some of the most vital and mission-critical organizations in the world with both commercial and open source offerings. Mattermost is built on an open source platform with thousands of community contributors, tens of thousands of code contributions and translation into 20 languages. Ian previously founded SpinPunch, Inc, an award-winning online video game company whose titles were played by millions of people across 190 countries. He was formerly VP Product at Flickme, a movie streaming startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures. Before that, he ran product management for Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Windows Live Photos services (now \"OneDrive\"), and was product management lead for Hotmail (now \"Outlook.com\"). Prior, he led engineering teams for Microsoft Office in its enterprise software business across SharePoint and business intelligence product lines. Ian holds over a dozen patents in analytic applications and is alumnus of the University of Waterloo, where he worked at Trilogy Software during school, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as teaching assistant for Andy Grove and Myron Scholes.US-Canadian dual-citizen.

Experience

1. CEO and Co-founder

   Mattermost

   Mar 2016 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   Mattermost is the leading sovereign collaboration and AI automation platform for national security and critical infrastructure enterprises. Trusted by governments, enterprises and allied militaries around the world, our platform runs on-premises and in private clouds, delivering secure messaging, file sharing, workflow automation, audio/screenshare, and project management—all with complete data and operational control. Mattermost powers high-stakes workflows across mission planning, real-time operations, DevSecOps, incident response, and cyber security.We enable zero-trust collaboration from tactical edge and DDIL environments to enterprise HQ, with advanced information controls including ABAC, data classification banners, data spillage mitigation and interoperable, federated communications. Teams operate across web, desktop, and mobile, with embedded interoperability for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365.For AI-enabled organizations, Mattermost offers the Intelligent Mission Environment (IME)—a self-hosted, multi-user, multi-agent framework for AI-accelerated workflows with sovereign and global models. Built on an in-house, hardened open source platform with complete auditability and supply chain security verification, Mattermost is co-developed with leading security experts to meet the world’s most demanding operational needs.

Education

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Masters, MBA

  2009 — 2012

• University of Waterloo

  Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering & Cognitive Science (with Distinction)

• Cornell University

  Masters , Computer Science

• Stanford University

  Masters of Public Policy (MPP)

  2009 — 2012