Pierre Martin
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Pierre is currently the CTO at Gavel, where he is leading a mission driven early stage venture using code to make justice more accessible to all, bridging the gap between the $400/hr fee for an attorney and the $32/hr average income in America.
Previously, Pierre was VP of Engineering at tech unicorn Flexe, and founding CTO at Beacon (www.beacon.com), a supply chain and B2B payments technology startup, leading its development from founding to series B. Beacon received backing and investment from top tier venture capital as well as the CEOs of Google, Amazon, Salesforce and Uber. Prior to Beacon, he had technology and product management leadership positions at Amazon and Microsoft for 10 years, where he was Head of Software Engineering getting Amazon Logistics off the ground, Head of Platform Engineering and founding engineer for Prime Video Live, and Sr product manager for the launch of Xbox cloud gaming platform.
Pierre received a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Illinois, where he studied under Prof. Umberto Ravaioli. He was a 2020 recipient of the Illinois ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award, for delivering high-impact products and outstanding technical leadership in the software engineering industry.
Pierre's team is now inventing the future of no-code platforms, and the future of justice, online.
In addition to his degree from ECE, he also holds his bachelor's from the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at Illinois.