Mark Ackerman is Co-Founder and CTO of Excipio. He is a principal engineer with more than 30 years of distributed systems and software architecture experience, including a decade at STRATACACHE, where he worked alongside Tony Wenzel and Brent Christensen.
Within that tenure he co-founded SuperLumin Networks and served as SVP of R&D, architecting the caching and content delivery platform that scaled to enterprise deployments globally at Adobe, Luxottica, and major retail networks.
Prior to STRATACACHE, Mark was a Director of Software Engineering at Juniper Networks, where he established security cloud operations, and earlier a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Mark and Tony have worked together for more than 20 years. At Excipio, Mark leads the architecture that applies this carrier-class intercept-and-cache lineage to the enterprise AI agent token economy.