If your next-door neighbor didn’t come running in your front door this morning to tell you, and you didn’t read it in Techcrunch because you live under a rock, let me be the first to say, we’ve got a new CEO and we are super friggin’ excited!

Roy Gilbert is his name and operational bad-ass is his game. Recently he worked at a local bay-area business called Google. They do cool things on the internet. Before that he drove a nuclear submarine around the planet. While Roy was scaling Google’s India operations from 20 to 1000 in a country he had never been in that spoke a language he didn’t know, he took some time to help his wife start a school in one of the most underprivileged areas of Hyderabad. This might sound impressive but it’s just part of being a Boy Scout, which he is. #great_success

Personally, I’m really geeked about running Grockit with Roy and I wish it meant less work for me but it really just means we’ll get way more done. My roles as president and chairman of the board are still in full effect and because we like chiefs at Grockit, I’ll also be our Chief Product Officer.

Roy, welcome to Grockit!!

Roy on Submarine

Rainbow Primary School in Hyderabad