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Tony Lee

Energizer · DISC type I
CTO at SimplePractice
📍 Palo Alto, California, United States

Tony Lee is a technology executive with a PhD from Brown University, now serving as CTO at SimplePractice. His career includes leadership roles at Dropbox, Zendesk, and Yahoo, where he specialized in scaling engineering, product, and ML teams. Colleagues describe him as an intelligent, clear, and innovative leader.

He is an engaged member of his professional community, often posing questions to his network about topics like hiring new graduates and connecting them with early-stage startups.

He is a listed inventor on multiple patents, including one for a system that displays differences between search engine results.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Tony shows up

Enthusiastic
Informal
Full Of Energy

Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions. They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships.

Priorities

Topics Tony cares about

Enterprise AI
As former CTO of Hyperscience, an Enterprise AI platform, he focused on using ML to automate business processes, emphasizing model management and human-in-the-loop supervision.
Scaling Tech Teams
He has a proven track record of leading engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth at companies like Snapdocs, Zendesk, and Dropbox.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
CTO
SimplePractice
10-2021 - 3-2024
Chief Technology Officer
Hyperscience
1-2020 - 9-2021
Head of Engineering, Security and IT
Snapdocs
10-2017 - 12-2019
VP Engineering
Dropbox
1-2014 - 10-2017
VP/Head of Engineering
Zendesk
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1992 - 1996
PhD
Brown University
1988 - 1992
Bachelor of Science (BS) / Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Brown University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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