Gary Mekikian

Who is Gary Mekikian?

Gary Mekikian is CEO of GATeIC.

Gary has over 20 Years of technology, entrepreneurship, and management experience. In addition to co-founding GATeIC, Gary is a Partner at Silicon Valley Technologies, LLC, a Stanford, California based technology firm he founded with professors from Stanford University.

Gary is a member of Stanford Sloan Alumni Board at the Graduate School of Business, and collaborates with business school professors William P. Barnett and John D. Roberts on developing business cases.

Previously Gary was Chairman and CEO of answerFriend Inc. (now Inquira), a privately held Customer Relationship Management software company he founded with MIT PhD graduates. The company uses natural language processing technology, and was featured in the Wall Street Journal and Fortune business publications for its far advanced technology.

In 1993, Gary was a co-founder of a successful IT services company, International Integration Inc. ("i-Cube"), which went public in 1998, and was later acquired by Razorfish Inc. Gary also held marketing and engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard Company.

Gary received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and his MS from Stanford University. He is a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.