Dr Ash Saulsbury

Chief Executive Officer @ Stealth Startup

About

Board director, tech veteran and perpetual innovator. Built products that redefined how billions interact with technology. Led frontier technology teams at Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Sun, Juniper overseeing all aspects of products from cloud to silicon to AI to GTM. The tangible impact of tech innovations in daily life fuels my drive and innovation to push technology beyond its current limits. Contributions include: engineering the first Solaris hypervisor, powering 100,000s of machines, developing a software-manages factory and precision robotic system that underpins a daily manufacturing and sale of nearly ~850,000 iPhones in 2010; and designing underlying technology for iconic products like the iWatch, iPod, iPad, HoloLens and Meta Glasses in the last decade. Currently, I'm pioneering at the edge of Artificial Intelligence, serving as an independent board director. and mentoring emerging tech visionaries with a blend of technical insight and strategic foresight .

Country

City

United States

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Technical Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, System Architecture, AR/VR, Product strategy, Electronics Manufacturing, Networking, Distributed Team Management, Virtual Reality

Experience

Chief Executive Officer

Stealth Startup

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Bay Area & Europe

Member Board of Directors | XETR: C3RY

CHERRY

2024 - Present · 2 yrs

Vice President Of Technology, Chief Architect

Microsoft

2019-1 - 2023 · 4 yrs

Chief Architect for Microsoft AI team responsible for full stack (silicon to software).

Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality Leader

Facebook

2017-2 - 2019-1 · 2 yrs

Greater Seattle Area

Creator of Meta Rayband glasses, services and GTM.

CTO Architect, Advanced Technology

Apple

2010 - 2017-2 · 7 yrs

Cupertino, California, United States

Led far-edge, category-leading technologies and multiple industry leading products in mobile, AI, audio/voice, optics, manufacturing, healthcare and wireless. Reporting directly to the CTO was responsible for identifying, diagnosing and solving Apple’s most difficult and publicly visible production, software, hardware and physics challenges, starting with “antenna-gate” on Apple 4/4S, to bit-flip on iPads, to AirPods audio.

Senior Distinguished Engineer, System Architecture

Juniper Networks

2008 - 2010 · 2 yrs

Silicon Valley, California, United States

Led 205 engineers to design and bring to market a Distributed Data-Center network switch (Q-Fabric) designed to scale to over 200,000 network ports. Created the new data center business unit around this technology which became essential to company revenues, scaling to ~1B/year in revenues.

Distinguished Engineer, Hypervisor

Sun Microsystems

1995 - 2008 · 13 yrs

Palo Alto, California, United States

Designed and developed SPARC Hypervisor and led the 150 person team to deploy the solution. Defined SPARC and Solaris Architectures for virtualization. Managed the implementation of, and launched Logical Domains of “Oracle VM Server”. Developed an embedded processor in DRAM technology for small scale Java platforms. Designed and built-out large-scale reliability test center in Denver, CO; accelerated testing using neutron beam line at Los Alamos, NM.