WHO WE ARE



AMR AWADLLAH
 Advisor / SparkLabs Saudi Arabia
CEO at Vectara

Amr Awadallah is Co-founder and CEO at Vectara. The company is a semantic search software company that enables customers to understand exactly what their users are asking - no matter how they ask - to provide extraordinarily relevant results. Previously, Amr was Global CTO and Cofounder of Cloudera, which is helped grow until it’s IPO where it was valued at almost $2 billion.

Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel, he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo! and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo! after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July 2000.

Amr holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.