Charles Irizarry is an entrepreneur, company builder, and CTO with a background in distributed computing systems and cloud-based software architectures.

With a track record in co-founding successful technology incubators and companies, Charles understands balancing high product innovation with company lifecycle realities, leading innovative teams to deliver world-class digital products and platforms.

Having launched over 20 different platforms and products across multiple businesses and industries, Charles’ experience includes building sophisticated, multi-disciplinary technology teams.

His most recent successes include co-founding Rokk3r, which went public in 2016 (OTC: ROKK), FoodLogiQ, where he was a turnaround CTO and helped the company execute its product vision and raise over $20 million in Series B funding, as well as Boatyard, which recently announced its acquisition in 2020.

Charles is a recognized leader and speaker within Miami’s tech scene and is currently focused on innovation in the areas of data science, natural language processing, machine learning and computer vision.