Stephen Brobst
Managing Partner
Sampo Technologies & Systems
Stephen Brobst specializes in the design and construction of analytics ecosystems for machine learning and advanced BI. He performed his graduate work in computer science at MIT, where his master’s and Ph.D. research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. During Barack Obama's first term he was appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) where he worked on development of the big data strategy for the U.S. government. In 2014, he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.