mimik Technology raises profile for edge platform as Ark’s Cathie Wood joins Board of Directors
Hybrid edge cloud company mimik technology, Inc announced that Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Investment Management, a New York-based investment adviser focused on thematic investing in disruptive innovation, will join its Board of Directors.
“We are thrilled to welcome Cathie Wood to mimik’s Board of Directors,” comments Fay Arjomandi, Founder and CEO of mimik. “As the Founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK, Cathie has successfully incorporated a new data-driven approach to investment that is aligned with a rapidly changing business and technology landscape posed for a historical transformation. I’m excited to work with a forward-thinking visionary and pragmatic industry leader. Cathie and I share a similar vision about the future of the digital world and how mimik can be foundational to enable digital transformation in a systematic way. Cathie is the partner that I always wished to have given her thought process and approach to predicting market trends based on data, and her depth of knowledge in the financial sector and investment.”
“I’ve always believed in backing founders who are at the forefront of innovation,” adds Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK. “At mimik, Fay and her team have built a foundation for the next generation of cloud computing. By extending server-side technologies to the edge, mimik lets developers build applications that run seamlessly from the edge to data center with unmatched privacy and performance.”
“I and other Board members of mimik are excited to work closely with Cathie,” comments Siavash Alamouti, Executive Chairman of the Board of mimik. “Her impressive experience and track record of success in observing and analyzing macro-economic trends and how disruptive technologies and business models will likely impact the future of markets is invaluable to mimik. She will help us grow our business and pursue our mission to continue to help companies with their digital transformation using mimik’s hybrid edge cloud development and services platform. She complements the skills of our team and the board who include legendary technology leaders Allen Salmasi, a pioneer in mobile technology behind many successful companies including Qualcomm, and Ori Sasson Managing Director of Primera Capital and a pioneering investor and technology visionary behind the success of companies like VMware.”
In January mimik announced its collaboration with IBM to build AI-enabled collaborative workflow solutions designed to help accelerate automation and digital transformation across manufacturing, retail, IoT and healthcare. State of the Edge and Edge Computing World selected mimic CEO Fay Arjomandi as winner of the Edge Woman of the Year Award 2020.
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Ark Investment Management | edge cloud | edge platform | Mimik Technology | venture capital
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