Leo Papadopoulos has worked in financial technology for over 25 years, with extensive experience in enterprise voice and collaboration, cloud services and WebRTC. As Chief Innovation Officer, Leo is responsible for introducing, implementing and delivering new technologies to advance product lines for Cloud9.

Before co-founding Cloud9, Leo was CTO and Chief Architect at IPC Systems, where he invented and brought to market three generations of market-leading communications and collaboration products used by financial traders globally. Prior to his role at IPC, Leo served as CTO at Lexar and Westcom, where he invented the first cloud-based trader voice service to connect and trade in emerging markets, and as Director of Technology at Bridge Electronics where he led the development of an open line communications platform widely adopted by the foreign exchange markets.

Leo holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Leo speaks Greek fluently and outside of Cloud9, he works with The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA).