Gary Gauba Serial Entrepreneur And Philanthropist

Gary Gauba is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist with a passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and new technologies. 

Sustainability and Carbon Zero Footprint is a high priority  for Gauba and with that in mind, he is working on building the Zero Green 99 MW AI DC data center in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Terra reference architecture in Silicon Valley is the largest off-grid data center in the market powered on-site by Bloom fuel cells with integrated super-capacitors delivering 800 VDC power direct to AI racks exceeding 1MW density. Closed-loop cooling and heat recovery design powering absorption chillers, enables a 1.06 design PUE and 99.999% reliability without requiring UPS or generators. 

Gary is also Founder & Chairman of TruU, Inc. TOTAL is TruU’s enterprise security platform built on closed loop reinforcement learning. Through Protect, Predict, and Enforce, native signals transform into proactive defense, accurate threat prediction, and automated enforcement at scale.

Entrepreneurship is in Gauba’s DNA and over the past three decades he has bootstrapped, self-funded and successfully exited three companies: Cognilytics, Systech and Softline. Cognilytics was one of the first companies globally to focus its whole strategy around big data, machine learning, and AI and was acquired by CenturyLink in 2014. Entrepreneur Magazine in 1997 ranked Softline as the second fastest growing company in the U.S.A. -- prior to acquisition by KPMG. 

In 2018, Gauba was focused on curating the next set of disruptive companies through a unique platform and launched The CXO Fund whose LPs are a diverse group of over 100 CXOs that are predominantly current and former senior executives from Fortune 500 Companies. 

Gauba is very passionate about creating a positive society and has been deeply engaged as Co-Chair of NextGen, a nonprofit whose mission is to educate underprivileged, underrepresented youth with diverse talent in Cyber Security. Gauba is on the board of the El’s for Autism Foundation. 

Gary’s hobbies include food and fine wine, golf and powerlifting. His love for fine wine and food has no boundaries- 10 years ago, he became a major stakeholder & Chairman of SF’s first Michelin 3-star restaurant- Saison.