Hi, I'm Brandon Middleton. A lover of all things technical, musical, and educational. I'm based out of Silicon Valley in California and have worked for Amazon Web Services, Slalom Consulting, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, the Wounded Warrior Project, and Google over the last 15 years. I originally hail from the south side of the south side of Chicago but I left there and went West in 2005. At my day job, I daily bring my technical and business leadership skills to work to help my customers and clients digitally transform their businesses using cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mobile technologies. I received lots of helping hands as I grew up and developed. Because of this, I have a deep passion for K-12 education and for my community in both Chicago and the Bay Area. To affect change for underprivileged communities (like the one I come from), I have been a board member of the San Jose Repertory Theater, Silicon Valley Education Foundation, ALearn, and a board fellow at College Track and the Mural Music and Arts Project.I proudly hold an M.B.A. from the University of California Berkeley (Go Bears) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (I-L-L). In my spare time, I enjoy teaching at the Stanford d.School, traveling and eating great food, playing basketball and soccer, playing music with my band and spending quality time with my wife, 9 year old daughter, and 5 and 2 year old and old sons.

DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time, at the stove whipping up the finest delicacies, or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.