During his career as a serial entrepreneur, executive, board member, and investor, Mr. Sorkin has led numerous breakthrough companies. He focuses on commercializing transformative technologies, with a significant concentration on energy, financial services, the environment, media, and government.
In his capacity as CEO of Jupiter and recognized as an expert in climate analytics, Mr. Sorkin has testified before the United States Congress; been a keynote speaker at major global events including the 2019 Amsterdam International Water Week; and served as a member of the climate risk working group of McKinsey & Company. Major media, including The Economist documentary film "The Great Disruptor", and CNBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times, have cited Mr. Sorkin’s expertise and Jupiter’s work.
Mr. Sorkin is the founder of multiple startups and the former chairman and CEO of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company best known for analytics and visualization of geospatial data, and acquired by HP. He led Kaggle prior to its acquisition by Google, directing the introduction of big data predictive analytics into the enterprise market and serving as the company’s premier industry strategist.
Mr. Sorkin began his career at NASA and then joined Bain & Company. Before moving to Silicon Valley, he helped initiate research of the supercomputer industry at Goldman Sachs. After graduating from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Lockheed Scholar, he grew the Sound Blaster business at Creative Labs, increasing revenues from under $100M to close to $1 billion in three years.
In addition to Stanford, Mr. Sorkin is an alumnus of Yale University. He has served as a board member at public companies, private firms, the Yale University Development Board, and several non-profit organizations.