Everett Harper is the CEO and cofounder of Truss, which builds software and infrastructure to help companies scale and modernize digital services. Previously, he worked at Linden Lab and the Self-Help Credit Union. Everett started his career at strategic consulting firm Bain & Company. He’s a board member of CARE.org and CASE at Duke Fuqua School of Business.

Everett has an MBA and MEd from Stanford University and a BSEE, biomedical engineering from Duke University, where he was an AB Duke Scholar. He won the NCAA National Championship in soccer and was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame in 2019. He’s written for Forbes, Fortune, and TechCrunch, and has been a featured speaker at Dent, Techstars, Dreamforce, and Women 2.0. Everett lives in Oakland, California, making limoncello when life hands him lemons.