Antonio P. Salerno
Antonio’s career spans hi-tech, investment finance and real estate. Since 2006, he has led SuperGrids Inc. & SuperQuantumAI - delivering products/services in AI, Quantum Computing, HPC and Cyber-Security to notable clients (confidential). The company now has broad patents in Multi-System AI, and Virtual Quantum Security. The company partners with a top R&D organization (340+ PhDs in AI, CyberSec, Quantum). As private companies, he will leave them to a charitable foundation in the future. He is also Chairman of a company which is using the latest M/S/AI “Agents” and Quantum/CyberSec technologies to uniquely disrupt the “Travel/Real Estate” market ($140B/ARR). He belongs to the Chief Executive Forum, and the Nat. Assoc. of Corporate Directors.
Previously, he founded Conxion Inc. growing it to 400+ people/3x continents, and $130M+ ARR. Raised a $100M Series A @ $950M pre, yet retained ~90% ownership for founders/employees. Made domestic & international acquisitions (>$10M), yet remained the only debt free company in its industry. Had multiple Tech, Patent & Industry awards: Gartner Magic Quadrant; Sole company awarded “IronMan of Hosting” (2800+ days w/No outages & No breaches); First/Largest OC-192 Internet Backbone [1998 Lumen Annual Report]; Developed several patents w/“learning AI” (continual network optimization; continual cyber-attack protection). Conxion was then the world’s largest Cloud/CDN – with 99.9% of business PCs accessing servers daily. Conxion was also sole-source OEM of managed web services for IBM ((IaaS). He was a Board Director of IOPS (largest Internet backbones), and one of six charged by the US Govt. - to monitor & safeguard the entire Internet - at the Y2K changeover. Created the first Angel Web Incubator {“Web University”), with Internet Services + Mentoring + Banking Svcs., in 2000. Partners were IBM, Garage.com, SVB, and others. This was featured in IBM’s Annual report (2 pgs). Conxion was sold to Time-Warner, with some divisions & technologies separately sold to Google and Microsoft.
Prior career highlights: SVP at Atari (ceo report) - managed software applications for Windows; UNIX; TOS platforms, all outside developer partnerships - earning a headline story in Soft/Letter magazine, for a noted turn-around (1990); As SVP at Forte Communications – Led software development & Marketing; Led M&A team to sell the company to IBM (Candle); At Borland Software – Conceived/Introduced to F500 customers the "Borland Bundle" (All Office Apps integrated @ a yrly fee; 1987); also product management of Prolog (AI software language); At EF Hutton (1980), pioneered use of multi-PC-hedging for Brokers, and options/hedged portfolios for Institutional funds. Published 3x articles in NYSE magazine (Reg. Rep.)
First invested in listed stocks in 1969; added Commercial RE in 1977; added new Ventures in 1981 (Osborne Computer, Series A), and Travel RE (resorts) in 1989. Joining the Band in 1995, he helped organize and served on the Band’s original Deal Committee in 2004.
Education: USAF Academy, Univ. of CO; Physics (PhD submitted) and Comp. Sci.; Stanford/ Mngt. & Mktg; Member - Prometheus Society; Interests: Tennis & Cycling; Flying & Hangliding