Bill Magnuson

Bill Magnuson is the cofounder and CEO of Braze, a customer engagement platform. His professional background began at Google working on App Inventor for Android. There he helped universities unlock new opportunities in education by simplifying the complicated app development process. He later joined Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. In 2011, he and fellow Braze cofounder Jon Hyman won the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, cementing a relationship that would lead to Appboy's creation later that summer. Bill was recently recognized by Digiday as a 2019 Digiday Future Leader and Inc.’s “30 Under 30 Brilliant Young Entrepreneurs” for 2017. Bill holds a B.S. and Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from MIT.