About Atym
We’re breaking the mold for embedded development by extending cloud-native principles to the billions of MCU-powered devices in the field.
Executive Team
Jason Shepherd – CEO
Jason Shepherd is widely-recognized as a thought leader in edge computing and IoT, having spent a third of his twenty-five year career in the space. He has held various executive leadership roles spanning R&D to sales and commercialization, delivering edge and IoT solutions to customers in verticals such as manufacturing, energy, smart buildings, retail and transportation. Prior to joining Atym, Jason was VP of Ecosystem at the edge orchestration company ZEDEDA and he previously served as CTO for Dell Technologies’ Edge and IoT business. He has a strong track record of fostering open source communities and industry standards, as exemplified by his work spearheading projects such as EdgeX Foundry and Alvarium in the Linux Foundation. He holds over 40 granted and pending US patents.
Stephen Berard – CTO
Stephen Berard has extensive experience building complex, large-scale Industrial IoT systems. Prior to Atym, Stephen served as CTO at Momenta Ventures where he sourced and evaluated investment opportunities across digital industry and advised their protfolio startups. Before Momenta, Stephen spent six years as Chief Architect of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IoT platform technologies team. In this role, he drove the technical platform strategy alongside global business units to support their connected products and services. Previously, he served for more than a decade as Technical Program Manager for the Microsoft Windows Core OS team.