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Tom Stocky

Energizer · DISC type I
Advisor at Gates Ventures
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Tom Stocky is an advisor at Gates Ventures and insitro, leveraging his extensive background in building large-scale platforms. His career includes leadership roles as a VP at Facebook and a Director at Google, where he focused on search and commerce products. He holds engineering degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tom is deeply passionate about applying technology to solve complex problems in biology and healthcare. This motivation guided his career transition from consumer technology to biotech, where he focuses on leveraging machine learning and data to accelerate scientific discovery and drug development.

He co-founded the team that created Google Flights, a widely used travel search product.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Advisor
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Tom shows up

Believer
Enthusiastic
Big Picture Person

They are naturally enthusiastic, so take their promise with a pinch of salt. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are people oriented, friendly and like creating new connections.

Priorities

Topics Tom cares about

Tech in Biotech
He deliberately pivoted his career from consumer tech to biotech, driven by a mission to apply machine learning and large-scale data to revolutionize drug discovery at insitro.
Large-Scale Platforms
He has a proven track record of leading teams that build the software, data, and infrastructure platforms that power science at insitro and search at Facebook and Google.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Advisor
Gates Ventures
5-2023 - 4-2025
Advisor
insitro
9-2021 - 4-2023
SVP, Lab & Data Platform
insitro
4-2021 - 2-2024
Scientific Advisory Board
Denali Therapeutics
2-2020 - 3-2021
Technology Fellow
Denali Therapeutics
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Media appearances

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Education
BS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MEng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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