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Ference Brose

Ference Brose

Ference Brose is Alpas AI’s CTO, with earlier technology leadership at DataGuard and technical co-founding experience.

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"It’s particularly rewarding to see mentees scale themselves as the role of a CTO evolves, finding the right balance of process and agility along the way."

About

Ference Brose is Alpas AI’s CTO, with earlier technology leadership at DataGuard and technical co-founding experience.

Current Work

Chief Technology Officer, Alpas AI

Ference Brose is a technology entrepreneur and Chief Technology Officer at Alpas AI, a company applying AI to supplier sourcing and procurement. He also undertakes fractional CTO work through buzzjective. His career spans software development, technical co-founding and leadership of engineering organizations.

Before joining Alpas AI, Brose was CTO of security and compliance platform DataGuard. He has also been a technical co-founder at Takhfifan and other ventures. Across these roles, his work has involved product development, engineering team design, architecture, security and the processes that support growing technical organizations. His background also includes M&A and post-merger integration work.

Experience Ference brings to founders

  1. Engineering leadership
  2. Software architecture
  3. Product delivery
  4. Security and compliance
  5. M&A integration

Operating and investing experience

A selection of companies and roles connected to Ference Brose.

Ventures

Alpas AI

Chief Technology Officer

buzzjective

Fractional CTO

DataGuard

Former Chief Technology Officer

Takhfifan

Former technical co-founder

Highlights

  1. Led technology at DataGuard for more than seven years.
  2. Held technical co-founder roles alongside CTO positions.

Questionsfounders ask aboutFerence Brose

Who is Ference Brose?

Ference Brose is Alpas AI’s CTO, with earlier technology leadership at DataGuard and technical co-founding experience.

What experience does Ference Brose bring to mentoring?

Their experience spans engineering leadership, software architecture, product delivery, security and compliance and M&A integration.

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