Aber Whitcomb (born 1977) is the founder and President of Salt AI. He was the CTO and Co-Founder of Jam City, Inc (formerly SGN Games). As CTO of Jam City Inc, a multi-platform game developer and distributor, Aber Whitcomb oversaw the cross-platform technology strategy and played a key role in developing and operating Jam City titles on a global scale.[1] Whitcomb is a recognized expert in large scale computing, networking and storage and frequently speaks on these topics at industry events.[2][3] He has been profiled in publications such as VentureBeat,[4]The New York Times,[5] and SoCalTech.[6]
Prior to Jam City, Whitcomb's most recent role was CTO and co-founder of MySpace where he was responsible for the engineering and technical operations groups.[7]InfoWorld named Whitcomb as one of the "Top 25 CTOs of 2009."[8]
Whitcomb is a co-founder of Core Scientific, a blockchain and artificial intelligence hosting, transaction processing and application development company that has raised $100 million in funding.[9][10][11] Whitcomb serves as President of Plai Labs and the founder of Rough House Games.[12] Whitcomb is also a co-founder of i/o Ventures,[13] an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship.[14] He graduated from the University of Washington and was born and raised in Bellingham, WA.
